At Stockholm rally, Lapid accuses Swedish FM of anti-Semitism
....“If the Swedish foreign minister is so worried about the state of human rights in the Middle East, she should talk about the use of children as terrorists or human shields, the discrimination against the LGBT community in the Palestinian Authority, the incitement disseminated by the Palestinian Authority against Jews akin to [Nazi propaganda newspaper] ‘Der Stürmer,’ the exploitation of women in Gaza, and the human rights situation in Iran,” Lapid told the 500-strong crowd who turned out for the annual “Taking Back Zionism” rally.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom sparked a row in December last year, when she accused Israel of carrying out “extrajudicial executions” in response to a spate of attacks by knife-wielding Palestinians. She followed this up in January with a demand for “thorough” investigations into the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army. In the wake of last November’s terror attacks in Paris, she also identified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the factors explaining why “there are so many people who have become radicalized” — comments Israel called “appallingly impudent.”
“If an attack on Jews is divorced from the facts, and based solely on prejudice, that has a name — it’s called anti-Semitism,” Lapid said at the rally in Raoul Wallenberg Square.
“Raoul Wallenberg fought against it 70 years ago and saved my father,” he said. Lapid’s father, the late journalist and lawmaker Yosef “Tommy” Lapid, was a Holocaust survivor who spent much of the war in the Budapest Ghetto.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-stockholm-rally-lapid-accuses-swedish-fm-of-anti-semitism/
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