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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Israel pans Stockholm protesters’ gory staging of Ben Gvir ‘killing’ Palestinian mother and baby
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Israel’s ambassador to Sweden has condemned a protest in Stockholm in which activists staged gory and graphic depictions of a blood-covered Jew, apparently Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, slitting the throat of a Palestinian mother and killing her baby.
The protest, held in Odenplan Square over the weekend, featured a person portraying a Jew wearing a yarmulka, seemingly Ben-Gvir, walking alongside an ostensible IDF soldier wearing a sign identifying him as a fascist, as the crowd chanted “Crush Zionism.” The street theater was part of a larger protest against Israel’s policies, including its military actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
Open acts of antisemitism, week after week in the streets of Stockholm.
The same centuries-old stereotypes and blood libels, repackaged by replacing “Jews”with “Zionists.”
Authorities tolerate “freedom of expression”being abused to promote hate and incitement against a… https://t.co/cnD8gJ6svJ
— Ziv Nevo Kulman ???????? (@zivnk) April 19, 2026
Ambassador Ziv Nevo Kulman decries the “open acts of antisemitism, week after week in the streets of Stockholm.”
“The same centuries-old stereotypes and blood libels, repackaged by replacing ‘Jews’ with ‘Zionists,'” he writes on X. “Authorities tolerate ‘freedom of expression’ being abused to promote hate and incitement against a national minority.”
“This is Europe, 2026,” he laments.
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