The police received a call about the demonstration around 5:30 pm on Monday.
The person calling says that it is a demonstration outside the school, that they have flags and banners and that there are about ten people on site. One says that it is calm at the site, says Mats Eriksson at the Stockholm police.
The police will investigate whether the demonstrators had a permit.
The students had left
At the same time as the police were alerted, the school's principal went home. She tells TT that all students, as far as she knows, had left the school's premises. According to the principal, the school's premises are regularly rented out for various events.
It's things that happen after school hours, she says and states that the events have nothing to do with the school's activities.
On Monday evening, the association With Israel for Peace (MIFF) held a conversation with a man who fought in the Israeli army in central Stockholm. Ulf Cahn, who is the communications manager for MIFF, does not want to confirm that the conversation was held near the Jewish school, and refers to security reasons.
Directed at the soldier
The network Jewish Anti-Zionist Alliance, on the other hand, states that it was the meeting, near the school's premises, that the demonstration was directed against – not the school or the students.
The organizer chose to invite this soldier to the cultural center, which is also a school during the day. That's up to the organizer, says one of the demonstrators from the network to TT.
One of several politicians who has criticized the demonstration is Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (The Moderate Party).
In response to questions about how she views the new information, that the students had gone home and that the demonstration was directed against an Israeli soldier, she writes, in a comment to TT:
”Those who want to demonstrate against Israel have every right to do so, but if one chooses to demonstrate against Israel outside a Jewish school in that context, one must accept that the choice of location is questioned.”
