Tag: Sweden
European intel agencies find Iran sought nuclear weapons
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...
Dolls hanged outside Swedish synagogue during Passover investigated as hate crime
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...
Based on Wiesenthal Centre Antisemitic Findings, “Malmö ends collaboration with the Arab Book Fair,...
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...
Sweden’s right-wing populist party seeks to draw support from local Jewish community
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...
Ex-Swedish premier faces backlash for comments on Israeli aid to Lebanon
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...
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increase by record-high 53 percent
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
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...
Prominent Jewish woman, 60, stabbed and critically injured in Sweden
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...
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
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...