Posts Tagged: Sweden
Recognition of ‘Palestine’ Highlights Divisions, Anxieties Among Swedish Jews
Torn between allegiances to their native and ancestral countries, the Jews of Sweden are striving to comprehend both the government's recognition of a Palestinian state...
Israel Pulls Envoy After Swedes Recognize Palestinian State; FM: Middle East Not Like Ikea Furniture (VIDEO)
Israel's Foreign Ministry on Thursday announced that it was recalling its ambassador to Sweden, Isaac Bachman, over Sweden's decision to recognize a Palestinian state. "The...
Swedish PM Criticized for Appointing “Islamist” to Cabinet
Sweden's newly elected Social Democrat Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, is under a fire for appointing a politician described as an "Islamist" to his cabinet. Mehmet...
Minister in New Swedish Gov’t Took Part in Violent Gaza Flotilla (VIDEO)
A Turkish-born minister in the new Swedish cabinet sworn in on Oct. 3, took part in a foiled attempt to breach an Israeli maritime...
Anger Grows Over Swedish Government Funding for Anti-Zionist Groups Amid Diplomatic Row
The Swedish government has insisted that it will continue with plans to recognize a Palestinian state, despite appeals from the Israeli government and the leader...
Member of Sweden’s Ruling Party Accused Israel’s Mossad of Training ISIS
A member of Sweden's ruling Social Democratic Party wrote on his Facebook page over the summer that "the Israeli Mossad" provided training to ISIS,...
Fascist Party Wins in Swedish Election Signals Further Concern for Religious Freedoms
After eight years of center-right rule that championed the free-market approach - and which saw Sweden's economy recover faster than any other in Europe -...
SWC: Raoul Wallenberg Saved 100,000 Jews From Nazi Gas Chambers, Why Can’t Swedish Authorities Protect 700 Jewish Citizens?
Jewish human rights group The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday asked how famed humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg could have saved 100,000 Jews from Nazi gas chambers,...
Simon Wiesenthal Center to Swedish Education Minister: ‘Prevent Nazification of Sweden’s Schools’
Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged Jan Björkland, Swedish Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister, to take a firm stand...
Stockholm High School Vandalized With Swastikas, Anti-Jewish Slurs (PHOTOS)
A Stockholm, Sweden, high school was plastered overnight with anti-Semitic graffiti, Nazi Swastikas and anti-Jewish slurs, Swedish English-language newspaper The Local reported on Monday. Concerned parent...
Why Do Swedish Jews Need to File for Political Asylum in Their Own Country?
Last year we had the pleasure of interviewing a Swedish Jew (and Zionist activist) named Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, who recounted her experiences living in a country plagued by...
Christian Journalist Who Posed as Jew in Malmo: ‘I’m Optimistic Things Will Get Better’
Patrick Reilly's experience posing as a Jew on the streets of Sweden proved an uncomfortable one even before it began. "Well, my wife, who is a...
Writer: Only Way to Survive as a Jew in Sweden is to ‘Shut Up and Fade Into the Woodwork’
In a letter published by Mosaic Magazine, Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, a Swedish writer and activist who last year organized the first public pro-Israel demonstration in Sweden in...
Muslim Anti-Semitic Incidents Concern Jewish Community of Malmo, Sweden
JNS.org - Swedish Jews, particularly those who reside in Malmoe—the country's third-largest city—are growing concerned over an increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents, many perpetrated...
