The background is that the member of parliament Karlsson on Monday on social media described the group's participants as "monsters" in connection with a demonstration outside a Jewish cultural center with, among other things, a school.
"To call peaceful demonstrators monsters is a classic rhetorical tool to justify oppression and portray political opponents as less worthy. When this is directed against Jews, whose historical exposure Karlsson himself often highlights, the action is particularly cynical and dangerous", says Alexandra Esser, one of the organizers behind the demonstration in a press release.
The Moderate Party's press service writes to TT that "if a report has now been filed, the legal process must of course have its course. Until then, it does not affect Mattias Karlsson's work in the parliament."
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) was one of those who shared Karlsson's post further, which she defends.
These demonstrators have the right to exercise their freedom of speech, but I also have the right to exercise my freedom of speech. And I want to express how inappropriate this is, said Malmer Stenergard to TT on Thursday.
TT has contacted the police and the Prosecution Authority about a police report without getting it confirmed. TT has also contacted the Jewish Anti-Zionist Alliance, but without success.
