Published May 1, 2024 at 1:40 p.m.
Domestic. Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M) is Minister of Civil Defense with responsibility for combating disinformation and fake news. But he himself has uncritically spread Israeli war propaganda – including the story of 40 beheaded babies.
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Carl-Oskar Bohlin is known for his bombastic war speech on Folk and Defense National Conference. Now he is again in a bad mood.
This time the minister has shared what he describes as “an important text” about the “hatred of Israel” written by the liberal Susanna Birgersson in the Gothenburg Post.
I in her editorial, Susanna Birgersson pushes the thesis that it is only anti-Semitism that is behind people protesting Israel's war on Gaza.
The article is described by critics – including the war correspondent Magda Gad – as embarrassing and full of inaccuracies.
A senselessly bad and one-eyed text that is overloaded with factual errors about our world around us (and therefore should not even have passed through an editor's eye) – which is liked and spread by our civil minister. It is worrying. Our ministers need to have knowledge of our surrounding world. https://t.co/ilelpkueH5
— Magda Gad (@gad_media) April 30, 2024
on October 7:
Alright – the Swedish Minister of Civil Defense, Mr. Bohlin, is not just sharing confused misinformation about the condition in the West and the Middle East, but also the war propaganda about 40 beheaded babies.
40 children were not killed at all on October 7 (there were a total of 33… https://t.co/ljL1tySZpB— Magda Gad (@gad_media) April 30, 2024
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Fria Tider has contacted Carl-Oskar Bohlin for a comment.