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JP76 t1_j6jze0g wrote

This was reported like the Torah burning was banned by Swedish authorities. That false information was further used to accuse Sweden of bias and hypocrisy.

As the article says, it was dialogue between the man who planned to burn the Torah and other Muslims what made the man change his mind. Authorities didn't stop him and he would've gotten a permission for his demonstration.

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green_flash OP t1_j6kg1hk wrote

> That false information was further used to accuse Sweden of bias and hypocrisy.

Yeah, that was quite irresponsible from Israeli authorities. I understand why they wanted it to be perceived as them having more clout with the Swedish government than Erdogan and also they wanted to get all the praise for preventing that event from taking place, but those statements from Israeli Foreign Ministry and ambassador painted a completely wrong picture of how it went down.

The only way the Swedish government was involved is that the Swedish Prime Minister apparently got into direct contact with the organizer and asked him to rethink his plan, but it ultimately was the organizer's own decision.

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Ijustwanna_read t1_j6kkrfo wrote

Just to add, the translation says "call", not as in phone call, but as in call to action. Most likely referring to a press conference from the day (or so) before were the the P.M asked to be respectful. Jpost also got it wrong.

This would go against the Ministerial rule - the P.M would basically be gone from his post by the time the phone call ended.

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MrGueuxBoy t1_j6k8nae wrote

Hey, easy now, he was kindly asked to tone it down, you can't say that the authorities weren't 100% dedicated to solve the crisis, now, can you ? /s

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