{"id":62342,"date":"2018-06-24T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=62342"},"modified":"2018-06-24T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T05:17:32","slug":"03-05-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=62342","title":{"rendered":"JEWS ARE NOT SWEDES, POPULIST RIGHT-WING LAWMAKER SAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>JEWS ARE NOT SWEDES, POPULIST RIGHT-WING LAWMAKER SAYS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Bjorn Soder, who represents the Sweden Democrats party at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, claims he only meant that people have a right to have their own identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bj\u00f6rn S\u00f6der<\/strong>. (photo credit: TWITTER)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Alawmaker for a populist right-wing party in Sweden has been accused of racism after writing on Facebook that Jews and members of the Sami minority are not Swedes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bjorn Soder, who represents the Sweden Democrats party at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, maintains that in his post Sunday he never questioned minorities\u2019 rights as Swedish citizens but merely stood up for their rights to preserve their distinct ethnic identities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soder on Facebook criticized Annie Loof, a Cabinet minister for the liberal Centre Party, who wrote on Twitter that her \u201cJewish friends are simply my Swedish friends: As a citizen of Sweden, you are Swedish, even whether you belong to one of our national minorities or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Soder responded that Loof was \u201cundermining\u201d the status of those five minorities by downplaying their distinctive identities, as he described it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese groups have minority positions in Sweden precisely because they are not Swedes. Shame on you, Annie Loof, for your racist attitude,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soder made similar statements in a 2014 interview with Dagens Nyheter. Lena Posner Korosi, who was then the president of the Jewish Council in Sweden, said that Soder\u2019s reasoning was \u201creminiscent of 1930s Germany.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Paulus Kuoljok, the president of the Sami Parliament Plenary Assembly \u2014 a publicly elected parliament and a state agency addressing the rights of that indigenous minority \u2013 called Soder\u2019s Facebook post \u201cprovocative\u201d and designed to win votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey have shown their hostile stance for quite some time, so I\u2019m not surprised,\u201d he told Sveriges Television.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweden Democrats has several Jews in its ranks, including lawmakers. It has nonetheless been accused of espousing anti-Semitic views, which the party denies.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October, a party lawmaker called for action against what she labeled the \u201ccontrol of media by any family or ethnic group,\u201d citing a prominent publisher with Jewish roots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior lawmaker Carina Herrstedt was widely criticized in the media for writing a racist joke in an email that was deemed offensive to gays, blacks, nuns, Roma and Jews. Finance spokesman Oscar Sjostedt was heard in a recording jokingly comparing Jews to sheep being killed in German abattoirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JEWS ARE NOT SWEDES, POPULIST RIGHT-WING LAWMAKER SAYS JTA Bjorn Soder, who represents the Sweden Democrats party at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, claims he only meant that people have a right to have their own identity. Bj\u00f6rn S\u00f6der. (photo credit: TWITTER) Alawmaker for a populist right-wing party in Sweden has been accused of racism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62365,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62342\/revisions\/62365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}