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Swedish Christian MEP Alice Teodorescu Måwe. (Courtesy of EPP Group)
January 25, 2025, 8:40 am
How Swedish MEP Alice Teodorescu Mawe became Israel’s most outspoken European ally
At home and in the European Parliament, the staunch advocate for Jews and Israel is leading the fight against overt antisemitism, as well as Jew-hatred masquerading as anti-Zionism
By Batya Levinthal
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)
April 24, 2024, 8:24 am
Amid Eurovision security fears, Malmo’s Jews mute celebrations for Israel’s Eden Golan
Jewish community claims police rescinded permit for pro-Israel demonstrations during the ‘apolitical’ song contest, running May 7-11. Officials say all protests off-limits
By Lars Avner Aqurette
Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)
October 3, 2019, 7:06 pm
Jews join fight against Swedish party’s call to ban circumcisions
After Center Party votes to back legislation barring practice, Jewish leader warns ‘it will be completely impossible to live as a Jew or a Muslim in Sweden’
By ToI Staff
An election official casts a voter's ballot at a polling station during the Swedish general elections in Stockholm on September 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jonathan Nackstrand)
September 9, 2018, 11:35 am
Polls open in Sweden amid heated debate on immigration
Far-right expected to make dramatic gains in European nation that took in the most Muslim asylum seekers per capita since 2015
By AP and AFP
Carinne Sjoberg peeling off a sticker that neo-Nazis left on the door of what used to be the Jewish community center of Umea, Sweden. (Courtesy of Sjoberg/via JTA)
July 15, 2018, 5:02 am
Under neo-Nazi and jihadist bullying, Swedish Jewish communities are shuttering
In addition to violent harassment from two Jew-hating populations, Swedish Jews also must live under government-enforced strict secularism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ilana Edner, marching behind the Israeli flag, with participants of the Jewish contingent of the gay pride parade in Malmo, Sweden, June 10, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
June 21, 2018, 5:58 pm
In Sweden, Jews and Muslims united around Israeli flags at a gay pride parade
Local newspapers prominently featured the rare show of solidarity, but critics say anti-Semitism in this city with a large immigrant population isn’t going away anytime soon
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Imam Salahuddin Barakat, left, and rabbi Moshe David Hacohen. (Courtesy of: Amanah, the Muslim and Jewish Trust and Faith Project)
April 5, 2018, 11:51 pm
In infamous Malmo, a rabbi and imam seed trust with audacious grassroots project
New dialogue efforts between an Israeli settler and Yemen-trained imam forge bridges in the Swedish city with an international bad rep for its roiling immigrant community
By Rossella Tercatin
The Al-Azhar Primary School in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. (YouTube screenshot)
March 14, 2018, 9:56 am
Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats vow to ban religious schools
Senior lawmaker opposes ‘school segregation’; Sweden’s only Jewish school not seen in danger, however, with pledge seen as election talk
By AFP
Jewish-American filmmaker Ami Horowitz. (Screenshot YouTube)
February 25, 2017, 5:41 am
Meet the gonzo Jewish filmmaker behind Trump’s fake news on Sweden
Latest piece joins Ami Horowitz’s controversial films on conditions in West Bank, Israeli flag on campuses
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of a street in the Swedish town of Gothenburg (CC BY-SA 3.0 Erik of Gothenburg/Wikipedia)
January 20, 2017, 10:39 pm
Swedish Jews boycott Holocaust memorial co-organized by nationalist party
In separate incident, Swedish Muslim youth movement dis-invites Muslim Brotherhood speaker after protest from Jewish group
By JTA
Stockholm. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 17, 2016, 8:21 am
American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm
Ami Horowitz says locals ‘punched, kicked and choked’ him after demanding that he stop filming them in immigrant neighborhood
By JTA
Aida Hadzialic, February 2015. (Flickr/Socialdemokraterna/Victor Svedberg/CC BY-ND 2.0)
August 14, 2016, 3:53 am
Muslim, youngest-ever Swedish minister resigns over drunk driving
Aida Hadzialic, 29, a former Bosnian refugee, leaves post after being caught at the wheel with proscribed level of blood alcohol
By AFP
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