The Local Sweden

Swedish youth politician defends anti-Zionist chant

Sun, 05 May 2019 17:08:50 +0200

The local chair of a youth branch of Sweden's ruling Social Democrats has defended the anti-zionist song chanted by its members during this week's Labour Day march.

Israel envoy: Palestinian prisoners are like Breivik

Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:49:00 +0200

Comments by Israel's ambassador to Sweden comparing recently-released Palestinian prisoners to Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has left relatives of victims of the Utøya massacre seething.

Aid cuts would be 'devastating'

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:42:00 +0200

Criticism of the government's foreign aid policy is mounting as Swedish ambassadors, aid organizations and politicians slam Development Aid Minister Gunilla Carlsson's announcements that development assistance to several countries may be slashed.

Palme prize awarded to Palestinian psychiatrist

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:46:00 +0100

Palestinian psychiatrist Eyad El-Sarraj on Tuesday won the 2010 Olof Palme Prize for his "self-sacrificing and indefatigable struggle for common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East, the Swedish jury said.

Letter to the Editor: UK MPs back Sweden over Palestinian capital

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:34:00 +0100

As EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels to debate the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations, a group of British MPs have come out in support of a Swedish proposal to establish East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Too early to recognize Palestinian state: Bildt

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:42:00 +0100

The European Union's Swedish presidency said on Monday that it was "premature" to recognize a Palestinian state, even as its leaders prepare to seek such recognition at the UN Security Council.

Swedish reporter meets hostile Israeli crowd

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0100

Swedish journalist Donald Boström told an angry audience in Israel on Monday that he stood by his calls for an investigation into allegations that the Israeli army harvested the organs of dead Palestinians.

Israelis protest arrival of 'organ theft' journalist

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:53:00 +0100

Dozens of Israeli protesters on Sunday expressed their anger at the arrival of controversial Swedish journalist Donald Boström, who accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians.

Organ theft article 'a perversion of journalistic standards'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:50:00 +0100

Amid an ongoing uproar over accusations that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, Andrea Levin of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) issues a fresh plea to Aftonbladet to acknowledge and correct "the factual errors that litter the article".

Reinfeldt rejects congressmen's plea to scold Aftonbladet

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:57:00 +0200

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has rebuffed demands by two members of the US Congress that he publicly condemn the Aftonbladet newspaper over a story alleging Israeli soldiers harvested the organs of dead Palestinians.

Sweden summons Israeli ambassador

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:11:00 +0200

Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Benny Dagan, has been summoned by Sweden's foreign office to discuss the diplomatic discord following an article in a national newspaper claiming Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians.

Bildt rejects Israeli call for official condemnation

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:41:00 +0200

Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has rejected calls from Israel for the government to distance itself from an article in a national newspaper which claimed Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians.

Israel blasts Sweden over organ harvesting report

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:29:00 +0200

Israel has announced that it intends to lodge an official protest to Sweden over its refusal to condemn an article in a national newspaper which claimed Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians.

Sweden pledges aid money to Palestinians

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:03:00 +0200

Sweden has agreed to pay direct support of 50 million kronor ($6.9 million) to the beleaguered Palestinian Authority, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.

Astrid Lindgren prize to Palestinian education group

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:32:00 +0100

A Palestinian education centre’s work to promote reading in the West Bank and Gaza, has earned it a Swedish literature award named for famed children’s book author Astrid Lindgren.

Sweden: 'Palestinian accord part of process'

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:10:00 +0100

Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged national reconciliation between the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, when he met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday.

Palestinians from Iraq granted shelter in Sweden and Iceland

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:02:00 +0200

Palestinian refugees stranded for two years in desperate conditions on the Iraq-Syria border will be resettled in Iceland and Sweden in the coming weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

Dozens arrested following anti-Israel protest

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:34:00 +0200

Forty-seven people were arrested and detained in connection with an anti-Israel rally in Norrmalmstorg in central Stockholm on Sunday evening.

Bomber given record jail spell

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:34:00 +0200

A Palestinian serving a life sentence for bombing a synagogue and an airline office in Copenhagen has had his life sentence limited to thirty years by a court in Örebro. The sentence is the longest fixed-period tariff handed down in Sweden in modern times.

Sweden welcomes new Palestinian prime minister

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:01:00 +0200

Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Friday welcomed the decision by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to nominate political independent Salam Fayyad to form an emergency government.