{"id":7462,"date":"2014-10-21T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T05:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2014-10-21T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T05:30:49","slug":"in-pro-palestine-sweden-far-right-jewish-lawmaker-embraces-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=7462","title":{"rendered":"In pro-Palestine Sweden, far-right Jewish lawmaker embraces Israel."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In pro-Palestine Sweden, far-right Jewish lawmaker embraces Israel.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Swedish MP Kent Ekeroth (photo credit: CC BY-SA Kent Ekeroth\/Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kent Ekeroth\u2019s mother immigrated from Poland. As an MP for the nationalist Sweden Democrats, he now agitates against Arab immigrants<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kent Ekeroth sits in the parliament in Stockholm for the far-right Sweden Democrats, the country\u2019s second-largest opposition party. He\u2019s a proud Swedish nationalist who agitates against leftists, liberals and Muslim immigrants<\/span><\/p>\n

Ekeroth is also Jewish, a frequent visitor to and staunch supporter of the State of Israel, and as such, was opposed to his government\u2019s announcement earlier this month of plans to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe opposed this vote for several reasons. For one, it\u2019s not the right way forward for Sweden to unilaterally recognize the Palestinians\u2019 state without Israel\u2019s involvement, without negotiations,\u201d he said. \u201cThe other part is: a state is formed when a state can control its own territory. The Palestinian Authority cannot.\u201d Worse yet, the PA formed a unity government with Hamas, he continued. \u201cFor us to recognize that \u2014 unacceptable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To make their opposition to the government\u2019s declared intention to recognize Palestine official, the Sweden Democrats, together with other opposition parties, last week voted against it in the Riksdag\u2019s Committee on European Union Affairs. The newly formed center-left coalition of Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven should have first discussed the issue in the Foreign Relations Committee, the lawmakers decided \u2014 a vote that, if disregarded, could get the government into hot water with the parliament\u2019s Constitutional Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the damage is done and Stockholm is unlikely to reverse its decision, said Ekeroth, 33. \u201cI don\u2019t think they will back down. That would be too much of an upset if they did,\u201d he told The Times of Israel last week in Jerusalem, where he visited as part of a delegation of pro-Israel parliamentarians from across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new government\u2019s declaration that \u201cSweden will recognize the State of Palestine\u201d \u2014 which was followed by a similar vote in the British House of Commons and the announcement that the Spanish parliament might be next \u2014 \u201cwill probably have a domino effect in Europe,\u201d Ekeroth said. \u201cThe left-wing establishment in many European countries will of course use this and the English vote as a reason to do the same thing in their countries. Considering that the left-wing media in Europe is very strong in almost all countries, especially the Western European countries, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there would be mounting pressure to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A native of Malm\u00f6, Ekeroth was born to a Swedish father and a Jewish mother originally from Kazakhstan who immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s. He is \u201cpartly Jewish, but obviously also Swedish. So it\u2019s a bit of both,\u201d he said. Later during the interview, he clarified: \u201cI\u2019m first of all Swedish. I was born there, it\u2019s my first language, it\u2019s the culture I grew up in; I\u2019m sure I\u2019m Swedish in many ways, culturally. That\u2019s natural. But then I have a Jewish background, so I understand that part, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ekeroth is entirely secular and described his observance of Jewish traditions as \u201cshallow.\u201d He first got into politics after a debate at the local synagogue (although he is not a member of any Jewish community). A centrist party tried to recruit him but since he has always been opposed to immigration he joined the far-right Sweden Democrats, with whom he entered the Riksdag in 2010. According to his worldview, unlimited immigration to his native land is the root of all evil befalling it \u2014 including the government\u2019s decision to recognize Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

For one, the Green party, the Social Democrats junior partner in the ruling coalition, is \u201cfiercely anti-Israel,\u201d he said. Sweden\u2019s new Turkish-born housing minister Mehmet Kaplan participated in the Mavi Marmara flotilla that sought to break the Gaza blockade in 2010, he added in support of his argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more In pro-Palestine Sweden…<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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