Swedish Jews boycott Holocaust memorial co-organised by nationalist party
Dozens of Swedish Jews said they would skip a Holocaust commemoration event in the southern city of Gothenburg due to the involvement of a nationalist party in organising it. “That the Sweden Democrats, with their ties to both old and new Nazism and xenophobia, are invited to co-organise the memorial ceremony is more than an affront. It is extremely offensive of us as Jews and our history,” wrote cosignatories Lisa Granér, Erik Nilsson and others whose name was not published, citing security fears.
Deseci švedskih Židova su izjavili da neće sudjelovati na komemoraciji Holokaustu, u Gothenburgu na jugu Švedske ,zbog toga što je u organizaciju uključena nacionalistička stranka. Lisa Graner i Eric Nilsson, među ostalima ( koji nisu dali svoje ime iz sigurnosnih razloga), su kazali: "Švedski demokrati, koji imaju veze s starim i novim nacizmom i ksenofobijom, su koorganizatorio memorijalne ceremonije. To je ekstremno "ofenzivno" za nas Židove i našu povijest"
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But the Sweden Democrats, which describes itself as critical of immigration from Muslim countries and its effects of Swedish society, are the “only party with a clear xenophobic agenda where people are pitted against each other solely on the basis of their background and where Sweden’s survival as a country is contrasted with an alleged wave of mass immigration,” the co-signatories wrote. “There is only one party that makes history’s bells ring so loud.”
Sweden Democrats more than doubled its gains in the 2014 parliamentary elections, which left the party with 49 seats out of 349 in the Riksdag, the kingdom’s parliament.