Tag: Sweden

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...