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\"The<\/a>At Stockholm rally, Lapid accuses Swedish FM of anti-Semitism<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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An attack on Jews not based in fact has a name, Yesh Atid leader says, advising Wallstrom to look into true rights abuses in Mideast<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"IsraeliIsraeli politician Yair Lapid addresses the crowed during a \u0093’Taking Back Zionism’\u0094 demonstration for Israel on August 28, 2016 at the Raoul Wallenberg Square in Stockholm. (AFP\/Jonathan Nackstrand)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Apearing at a pro-Israel rally in Stockholm on Sunday, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid accused the Swedish foreign minister of anti-Semitism, for attacking Israel in a way that did not reflect the reality on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Swedish foreign minister is so worried about the state of human rights in the Middle East, she should talk about the use of children as terrorists or human shields, the discrimination against the LGBT community in the Palestinian Authority, the incitement disseminated by the Palestinian Authority against Jews akin to [Nazi propaganda newspaper] \u2018Der St\u00fcrmer,\u2019 the exploitation of women in Gaza, and the human rights situation in Iran,\u201d Lapid told the 500-strong crowd who turned out for the annual \u201cTaking Back Zionism\u201d rally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom sparked a row in December last year, when she accused Israel of carrying out \u201cextrajudicial executions\u201d in response to a spate of attacks by knife-wielding Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

She followed this up in January with a demand for \u201cthorough\u201d investigations into the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of last November\u2019s terror attacks in Paris, she also identified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the factors explaining why \u201cthere are so many people who have become radicalized\u201d \u2014 comments Israel called \u201cappallingly impudent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n


\nPeople hold up pro-Israel banners at a \u0093\u2019Taking Back Zionism\u0094\u2019 rally at Raoul Wallenberg Square in Stockholm on August 28, 2016. (AFP\/Jonathan Nackstrand)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf an attack on Jews is divorced from the facts, and based solely on prejudice, that has a name \u2014 it\u2019s called anti-Semitism,\u201d Lapid said at the rally in Raoul Wallenberg Square.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRaoul Wallenberg fought against it 70 years ago and saved my father,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lapid\u2019s father, the late journalist and lawmaker Yosef \u201cTommy\u201d Lapid, was a Holocaust survivor who spent much of the war in the Budapest Ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are here today to protect your children,\u201d Lapid continued. It\u2019s not easy to be under attack, especially when the attack is unjust, not based in fact and unfair. We need people who see beyond the deception and lies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Raoul Wallenberg (photo credit: <\/span><\/em>
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\n\"RaoulWallenberg, a Swedish diplomat during World War II, saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis in Hungary by issuing them protective passports in the final months of the Holocaust. He mysteriously disappeared in Soviet custody in January 1945, and his true fate is unknown to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1957, the Soviet Union released a document saying Wallenberg had been jailed in the Lubyanka prison, the notorious building where the KGB security services were headquartered, and that he died of heart failure on July 17, 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the recent discovery of the diary of a former KGB chief claimed that Joseph Stalin ordered the \u201cliquidation\u201d of Wallenberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

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