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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews new nuclear achievements during the country’s National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, April 10, 2021. Credit: Iranian Presidency Office.

European intel agencies find Iran sought nuclear weapons

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Iran sought on multiple occasions in 2020 to obtain technology for its nuclear-weapons program, intelligence agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany said, according to a Fox News report on Monday. The General Intelligence and Security Service...
A synagogue in the Swedish town of Norrkoping. Source: Screenshot via Google Maps.

Dolls hanged outside Swedish synagogue during Passover investigated as hate crime

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Police in Norrkoping, Sweden, are investigating after someone left a hate-filled message and a group of dolls hanging outside a synagogue there on the first day of Passover. According to a post from the Anti-Defamation...
Jiří Komárek, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Based on Wiesenthal Centre Antisemitic Findings, “Malmö ends collaboration with the Arab Book Fair,...

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Paris, 28 October Based on the letter by Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, to the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, and the Jewish community, revealing antisemitic texts promoted through the Arab...
Jimmie Åkesson, a Swedish politician and author, has served as leader of the Sweden Democrats since 2005. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Sweden’s right-wing populist party seeks to draw support from local Jewish community

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In the last decade, Sweden has been the target of praise and criticism for two major policies: the acceptance of more than 100,000 migrants from Middle Eastern countries at the height of the Syrian...
Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Ex-Swedish premier faces backlash for comments on Israeli aid to Lebanon

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Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt faced backlash for expressing surprise at Israeli assistance following multiple explosions that ripped through Lebanon’s capital of Beirut on Tuesday. In addition to immediately sending humanitarian and medical aid to its...
Stortorget in Malmö, Sweden. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increase by record-high 53 percent

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Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increased by 53 percent last year compared to 2016, according to its government in a report released last week that showed a 69 percent increase in racist or xenophobic...

How Sweden Became the Epicenter of Yiddish Children’s Media

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In 1999, Yiddish was declared an official national minority language in Sweden, alongside Finnish, Romani, Meänkieli, and the Sami languages. There’s federal funding in Sweden for media produced in all its national minority languages—so Sweden, of all...
Helsingborg Town Hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Prominent Jewish woman, 60, stabbed and critically injured in Sweden

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A 60-year-old Jewish woman was stabbed and critically injured on Tuesday in Helsingborg, Sweden, where she is known to be a prominent member of the Jewish community. Reports suggest the suspect, who is on the...

Head of ‘Radio Islam’ in Sweden Ahmad Rami: ‘Judaism is like a mafia in...

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Swedish-Moroccan writer Ahmad Rami, the founder and head of the Swedish-based “Radio Islam,” said in a recent TV interview that Judaism “is like a mafia in the West.” Rami, who was convicted in 1990 for...

Swedish-Palestinian Center attacks Israel in anti-Semitic demonstrations

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The Helsingborg Police in southern Sweden is investigating an anti-Semitic demonstration during which activists from the Swedish-Palestinian Center called the Jewish people "offspring of apes and pigs." The organization held several demonstrations last month in...