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anti-Semitism in Sweden

Illustrative: Police officers stand near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
April 28, 2025, 5:39 pm
Sweden sentences four teens over shooting attack on Israeli defense company
No one injured in attack on Elbit Systems’ offices in Gothenburg last October, months after bomb plot foiled by police
By AFP and ToI Staff
Officers stand near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, January 31, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)
June 27, 2024, 9:01 pm
Swedish court indicts teen for going to Israeli embassy with semi-automatic weapon
15-year-old claims he was given gun and was unaware taxi he was riding in was heading toward embassy; Swedes claim Iran recruiting local gang members
By AFP
Red paint is seen on a Eurovision sign in Malmo, Sweden, on March 11, 2024, after it was vandalized in a protest against Israel. (SVT screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
May 2, 2024, 3:47 pm
Sweden reports sharp rise in antisemitic hate crimes since Hamas attack on Israel
Between Oct. 7 and end of 2023 there were 110 incidents reported, over 4 times as many as during the same period the year before
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: A photo of Anne Frank is displayed at the opening of the exhibition: "Anne Frank, a History for Today," at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands, June 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
October 16, 2022, 6:15 pm
Far-right Swedish party official suspended for calling Anne Frank ‘immoral’
Israeli envoy condemns ‘despicable insult, disrespectful of the memory of Anne Frank,’ by a Sweden Democrats official; party in power for first time
By AP
The main synagogue in Malmö, Sweden. (CC BY-SA jorchr/Wikimedia Commons)
October 16, 2021, 2:38 am
‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during antisemitism summit
Words were seen on several buildings in country; neo-Nazi group claims responsibility for the incident
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven delivers the opening speech at the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism - REACT. The one-day conference will focus on the receding memory of the Holocaust as Sweden marks the 20th anniversary of a conference on remembering the genocide. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP)
October 15, 2021, 1:01 am
At Sweden summit, social media giants urged to act against ‘rife’ antisemitism
Online hate speech escaping sites such as Parler and 4chan and being repackaged and disseminated to wider public, particularly young people, though apps like Instagram and TikTok
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
The website of the Nordic Resistance Movement features a picture of dolls hanged outside the synagogue of Norrkoping, Sweden, March 28, 2021. (NRM via JTA)
April 1, 2021, 10:22 am
Baby dolls splashed with red paint strung outside Swedish synagogue
Sign describes Passover as Jewish celebration of Egyptian children’s deaths; Nordic Resistance Movement publishes photo of display; police probe incident as suspected hate crime
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Mattias Amster, Stockholm's new orthodox rabbi (John Gradowski via JTA)
October 24, 2020, 3:46 pm
Stockholm’s 1st Swedish-born rabbi: ‘It’s fun for people that I’m from here’
Mattias Amster is first locally born and raised rabbi to hold pulpit in capital; says still uncommon for people to see a religious Jew, but ‘not scared’ about anti-Semitism
By Josefin Dolsten
A memorial for victims of the Holocaust outside of Stockholm’s Great Synagogue, January 27, 2019. (Michael Campanella/Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:22 am
Sweden allocates $1.1 million to start work on its first Holocaust museum
Scandinavian nation plans museum with focus on survivors and a center devoted to Raoul Wallenberg, a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in WWII
By Josefin Dolsten
Demonstrators throw stones at police as protesters riot in the Rosengard neighborhood of Malmo, Sweden, August 28, 2020. (TT News Agency via AP)
September 2, 2020, 8:15 pm
At protest against far-right lawmaker, Swedish Muslims chant about killing Jews
Malmo demonstration turns violent, with several cars set ablaze and at least 10 people arrested
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Isabel Pereira was kicked off Sweden's Big Brother reality show after she declared "I hate Jews." (Screenshot)
February 14, 2020, 11:24 pm
Sweden sees anti-Semitism rise as ‘Big Brother’ contestants confess Jew hatred
Two reality TV show participants show get booted for anti-Jewish statements, another has history of neo-Nazi support, as leaders cite growing threat to community of 20,000
By Josefin Dolsten
An exhibit on Nazism at the Norrköping City Museum in Sweden. A bag emblazoned with a Star of David and containing soap and anti-Semitic literature was found outside the museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Screen capture: Sveriges Television)
January 31, 2020, 8:25 pm
Bag with Star of David, soap left outside Swedish Holocaust exhibit
Anti-Semitic literature also in sack found outside museum in city of Norrköping on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this March 3, 2010 photo, the secured doors of the Jewish community center in central Malmo, Sweden are shown. (AP Photo/Pamela Juhl)
November 28, 2019, 10:19 pm
Sweden’s Malmo allocates $2 million to protect its Jewish community
City is known as a hotbed of anti-Semitism, with dozens of anti-Jewish incidents reported annually
By Marcy Oster
A Yello star sticker on a Jewish grave in Denmark on Nov. 10, 2019. (Courtesy of Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal via JTA)
November 11, 2019, 12:33 am
On Kristallnacht anniversary, yellow stars placed at Jewish sites in Scandinavia
Stickers found on homes of Jews, a synagogue, gravestones and a café in Sweden and Denmark; authorities investigating incidents as hate crimes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Police arrive after a synagogue was attacked in Gothenburg, Sweden, December 9, 2017. (Adam Ihse/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 5, 2019, 4:20 am
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden rise by 53% to all-time high
Swedish Jews suffered 280 attacks in 2018; overall, number of racist assaults in country jumps 69% since 2016
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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