Swedish Green Party politician Per Gahrton, who is also Chairman of the rabidly anti-Israel “Palestinagruppen”, strongly condemned Sweden’s ambassador to Israel. This after Ambassador Ms Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier expressed her distaste over Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet’s grotesque anti-Semitic article. The populist daily painted a picture of Israel and Jews worldwide engaged in a murky conspiracy to […]
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Is Sweden anti-Semitic?
The answer is an emphatic “no”. There is no institutional anti-Semitism in Sweden. Among the vast majority of Swedes anti-Semitism provokes the same revulsion as all other forms of racism do. There are exceptions, however. One may safely discount the oddballs on the extreme Right – there are few people in Swedish society who would […]