Pro-Palestinian Protest at Stockholm Jewish School Sparks Political Outrage

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered on Monday afternoon outside the Jewish school in central Stockholm.

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The demonstrators held up signs with the message "all children are equally valuable", writes Expressen.

The incident has sparked strong reactions. Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (The Moderate Party) calls the behavior "despicable and downright anti-Semitic" on

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Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party) condemns the protest in a post on X.

"This is not about freedom of speech, but about creating fear and fear among children living in Sweden", she writes, among other things.

The Social Democrats' party leader Magdalena Andersson has also reacted.

"All children and young people should be able to feel safe when going to and from school. Therefore, a demonstration against Israel outside the Jewish school is deeply inappropriate. Swedish Jews have no responsibility for Netanyahu's far-right government's actions", she writes on X:

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