{"id":23000,"date":"2015-07-03T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2015-07-01T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:00:33","slug":"23000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=23000","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSweden: Rising Anti-Semitism and Funding Islamic Relief (terror)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/j-press.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/indepth\/opinions\/sweden-rising-anti-semitism-and-funding-islamic-relief-terror\/2015\/06\/30\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSweden: Rising Anti-Semitism and Funding Islamic Relief (terror)&#8221; <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">By:<strong> Tobias Petersson And Nima Gholam Ali Pour <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-article wp-post-image alignright\" style=\"border: #000 4px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jewishpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Flag_of_Sweden.svg_-e1435664123925.png?w=477\" alt=\"Flag of Sweden\" width=\"477\" \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In April, the Swedish NGO and think tank Perspectives On Israel (PPI) in a Jerusalem Post op-ed brought attention to the fact that the NGO Islamic Relief (IR) was receiving funding from the Swedish government aid agency SIDA. There exists clear evidence that the IR project \u201cCash for Work\u201d has benefited Hamas and its institutions in the Gaza strip. In addition to PPI\u2019s criticism of IR, there exists international criticism against IR for its ties to terror organizations. Israel has banned IR from working in Israel, including Judea and Samaria, and declared it an illegal organization. According to news reports, the decision was made by Israel after the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and legal authorities provided incriminating information against IR. In addition to this the UAE lists IR as a terror organization. PPI is awaiting a political reaction in Sweden to our findings and the international criticism-so far, silence. Unfortunately, Sweden is a country where the majority accepts that tax money goes to an organization that aids terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In May, PPI\u2019s spokesperson Nima Gholam Ali Pour revealed in the newspaper Samtiden that Islamic Relief\u2019s country director in Sweden is spreading anti-Semitic myths on Facebook. Some of the anti-Semitic myths that were spread on Facebook by IR\u2019s country director were that Jews are behind the Holocaust and that they control the World Bank. Again this was met with silence from our politicians and journalists in Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Swedish media that is so interested in writing one after the other news articles on alleged \u201capartheid\u201d in Israel was not interested in writing that the Swedish government aid agency SIDA is funding an organization which has benefited Hamas institutions and has a leading representative in Sweden that seems to have racist views. Neither the Swedish government nor SIDA has commented on this scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While SIDA chooses to continue its co-operation with IR more and more Jews are fleeing from Sweden\u2019s major cities because of growing anti-Semitism in Sweden. In a situation, where the Swedish government and major social institutions in Sweden should make a clear repudiation of anti-Semitism, they choose not to do so, by not distancing themselves from IR.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> PPI regrets to announce that Sweden more and more is becoming a country where anti-Semitism is acceptable. The scandal around IR is one example of many. Information that IR has close connections to Hamas institutions and has benefited them have been presented. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">No political actions have been taken against IR. Sida has yet not showed any interest in knowing which the more than hundred organizations are that IR has involved in its aid projects in the Gaza strip and there by benefited with Swedish funding. Information that IR\u2019s country director has been spreading anti-Semitism on Facebook was presented. No one did anything. Sweden\u2019s political establishment seems to have the same values as the Germans had in the 1930s. PPI invites everyone opposing anti-Semitism to write to the Swedish government and ask them to stop SIDA\u2019s funding of IR, an organization that have benefited the anti-Semites in Hamas and whose representatives are spreading anti-Semitism. Racism must never be accepted in any society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">About the Author: Nima Gholam Ali Pour is a political commentator in Sweden and has a master&#8217;s degree in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER). Tobias Petersson is a Swedish freelance writer and has focused on Israel and the MENA region. They are the spokespersons for Perspective on Israel, a grass root NGO, founded in 2013 to counteract the negative, distorted image of Israel that is spread in the Swedish media and in political parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"  content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSweden: Rising Anti-Semitism and Funding Islamic Relief (terror)&#8221; By: Tobias Petersson And Nima Gholam Ali Pour In April, the Swedish NGO and think tank Perspectives On Israel (PPI) in a Jerusalem Post op-ed brought attention to the fact that the NGO Islamic Relief (IR) was receiving funding from the Swedish government aid agency SIDA. 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