Swedish State TV Ties Trump’s Jerusalem Recognition To ‘Jewish Lobby’
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
(JTA) — Sweden’s main public broadcaster apologized for an article that tied President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to the strength of the “Jewish Lobby.”
In a broadcast Wednesday immediately following Trump’s address about Jerusalem, the broadcaster SVT asserted that the “Jewish Lobby in the US is incredibly strong,” and said the lobby “has championed this issue for a long time.”
“It was an unfortunate choice of words that immediately was corrected by our senior news commentator,” Charlotta Friborg, executive editor and publisher SVT News, told JTA in an email.
Viewers had complained online that the assertion promoted anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jewish control over U.S foreign policy.
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