— A Swedish nun who saved Jewish families from the Nazis during the Holocaust was made a saint. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad was canonized on Sunday by Pope Francis during a ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. She becomes the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years. Hesselblad converted to Catholicism after being…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the European Union of holding his country to a double standard, and reserved special criticism for Sweden, saying its call to investigate Israel was outrageous, immoral and stupid. “There is a natural tendency in the EU establishment to single out Israel and treat it in ways that…
Israel summoned the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday to convey what it described as its “rage” at a call by Stockholm’s top diplomat for an investigation to determine whether Israeli forces were guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s remarks on Tuesday were the latest in a series of statements to stoke…
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven withdrew his statement that the recent string of stabbing attacks in Israel do not qualify as terror. Lofven clarified to say he views the stabbings as terror attacks, but meant they are not organized by terrorist organizations, according to Haaretz. Asked on Sunday by TT, a Swedish wire service, whether…
Relations between Sweden and Israel hit a fresh low on Sunday after Israel said Sweden’s foreign minister had accused it of unlawful killings and Stockholm responded by saying that the comments had been “blown out of reasonable proportion.” Relations between the two countries have nose-dived since Sweden’s Social Democrat-led government recognized a Palestinian state last…
Israel condemned as “scandalous” on Sunday what it deemed was a suggestion by the Swedish foreign minister that its forces had unlawfully killed Palestinians involved in a surge of street violence, and warned of a diplomatic rupture with Stockholm. Addressing Swedish lawmakers on Friday, Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom denounced the almost daily Palestinian knife, gun…
Sweden’s foreign minister said that tackling extremists like the jihadists who struck in Paris required dealing with hopelessness of Palestinians and others in the Middle East. “To counteract the radicalization, we must return to the situation such as the one in the Middle East, in which, not at the least the Palestinians, see that there…
Hundreds of protesters in the Swedish city of Malmo were filmed chanting in Arabic about slaughtering Jews and stabbing soldiers. Pro-Palestinian groups organized a rally Monday in the city center against what they consider Israeli violence and to show solidarity with Palestinians amid deadly measures taken by Israeli authorities to stop the recent spate of…
דער אַרבעטער רינג וועט אויך לערנען אַ קורס וועגן די ייִדישע דיאַלעקטן בײַ די הײַנטיקע חרדים.
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