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Israeli officials refused to come to the Dimona Media Conference for the presence of Donald Bostrom Swedish journalists at the conference. Some residents also protested the arrival of Israeli Bostrom, who arrived at Ben Gurion airport on Sunday.
Anger against Bostrom has not abated following Bostrom articles published contain Aftonbladet newspaper reports of Palestinians killed and her organs missing after the abducted by Israeli soldiers. The article makes Israel furious and once cause tension between the Israeli government and the Swedish government.
Israel demanded the Swedish government to withdraw the article and apologize. Sweden said that insistence by stating that Bostrom speak not on behalf of the Swedish state and respect freedom of expression and freedom in his country. Getting no response from the Swedish government, Israel declared prohibits Bostrom and other Aftonbladet journalist, went into Israeli territory.
Because Bostrom presence at Dimona Bostrom Media Conference, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister of the construction sector Negev and Galilee regions, Silvan Shalom refused to come to the conference. While Bostrom himself, according to the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, was given a special escort in Israel.
In the conference, Bostrom admitted no proof of allegations that Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped Palestinians to take her organs and resold. But he said that information from the families of the victims are serious enough information and deserve for publication.
"In conclusion, there must be a deep investigation on the allegations made by Palestinian families ," Bostrom said.
He also said that his presence at the conference at the invitation of the organizers. Dozens of young activists from the Likud Party protested the presence Bostrom by wearing T-shirts that read "Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East". The protesters also shouted Bostrom with the title "You're like Hitler."
Zionist Jewish institution, also criticized the Wiesenthal Center Dimona city authorities that allowed Bostrom attended the conference. "Bostrom does not have a platform in Israel. He has betrayed the code of ethics for journalists about the integrity has been spreading false facts," pointing Shimon Samuels, director of the Wiesenthal Center



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