{"id":13987,"date":"2015-02-05T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:29:33","slug":"13987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=13987","title":{"rendered":"Decades of Anti-Israel Hate by Swedish Social Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Decades of Anti-Israel Hate by Swedish Social Democrats<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The writer has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North America.He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is not just the immediate recognition of “Palestine” that is behind Israel’s negative reaction to Sweden’s new government. The Social Democrats have a long history of hate-mongering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month, Swedish foreign minister Margot Wahlstrom postponed her visit to Israel after foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and other Israeli top officials refused to meet with her.[1] The Israeli refusal was a reaction to the new Social Democrat Swedish government\u2019s initiative to recognize the Palestinian state shortly after its arrival to power.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli attitude should also be seen, however, against the background of decades of extreme anti-Israeli hatemongering by Swedish Social Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The late Swedish Social Democrat Prime Minister Olof Palme \u2013 murdered in 1986 \u2013 was a pioneer of anti-Israel incitement. He accused Israel of Nazi practices.[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1984, Swedish Deputy Foreign Minister Pierre Schori visited Israel. He praised Arafat and his \u201cflexible policy.\u201d In an article, Schori claimed that \u201cthe terrorist acts of the PLO were \u2018meaningless,\u2019 while Israel\u2019s retaliatory acts were \u2018despicable acts of terrorism.\u2019\u201d[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

Surprisingly, this century started, however, with a very positive event for the Jewish people in Sweden. In January 2000, a major conference on Holocaust education in Stockholm came to a close. The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust had been initiated by G\u00f6ran Persson, then the Swedish Social Democrat prime minister. Political leaders from almost fifty countries participated in the conference. Nowadays representatives of tens of countries meet regularly to discuss Holocaust education, research and remembrance in the framework of an intergovernmental organization, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.[4]<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet Zvi Mazel, who was Israel\u2019s ambassador to Stockholm from December 2002 to April 2004, said, \u201cDespite Persson\u2019s personal attitude, he has to carry part of the blame for his party\u2019s discriminatory stance toward Israel. For decades, the Social Democrats helped create the country\u2019s anti-Israeli atmosphere. He also has to take responsibility for the behavior of the Swedish International Development Corporation Agency (SIDA), which blames Israel for all the many wrongs in Palestinian society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mazel added, \u201cAnother leading socialist, the late foreign minister Anna Lindh, usually made the most vicious attacks on Israel. Her hatred of Israel can only be described as almost pathological. Under her leadership, Sweden published the greatest number of one-sided condemnations of Israel of any EU country. Lindh was stabbed to death in 2003 by a mentally disturbed Swede of Serbian origin.\u201d[5]<\/span><\/p>\n

Lindh\u2019s successor as foreign minister, Laila Freivalds, visited Yad Vashem in June 2004 to honor murdered Jews. She then heavily criticized Israel at a meeting with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Freivalds remained silent on the extensive anti-Semitism in Sweden, much of which is of Muslim origin. This phenomenon of paying honor to dead Jews, criticizing Israel, and ignoring or belittling one\u2019s own country\u2019s major delinquencies toward living Jews is common in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freivalds\u2019s behavior was subsequently exposed by four former chairmen of the Swedish Jewish community, who wrote about the rampant racism and anti-Semitism in the country. They sent a letter to the editor of Haaretz in which they summarized contemporary Swedish anti-Semitism. The letter first praised Sweden for having received Jews fleeing the Holocaust during World War II, and Prime Minister G\u00f6ran Persson for initiating the Living History Project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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