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Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This happens so often it doesn't even feel like an Onion headline any more. Tommy Robinson (A UK far right goon) did the same.

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

For SD I think it's a calculated "we're not Nazis" move, for Tommy Robinson maybe he just hates arabs more than he hates jews? Weird.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Or they’re richer than he hates them.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago

There's a long history of Israel doing this: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/132145/the-unspoken-alliance-by-sasha-polakow-suransky/9780307388506/excerpt

[-] goferking0 8 points 11 months ago

Honestly starting to feel like no shit Sherlock territory

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Birds of a feather and all that.

Only surprising to people who can't recognize fascism unless it's wearing cartoonishly shiny jackboots.

[-] roastedDeflator@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Archive link

[+] parpol@programming.dev -17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] vind@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

SD is not a center party. They have been and always will be a far right party with some socialist talking points to get votes from the left. (Sound familiar?)

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

You can't spell NSDAP without SD

[+] parpol@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago

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[-] goferking0 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did you even read the article?

Just one example

In recent months, the party has been attempting to position itself as "the most pro-Israel party in Sweden" and distance itself from its antiemetic and neo-Nazi past. However, in 2021, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet revealed that the party leader in the second-largest city council in Sweden, Gothenburg, Jörgen Fogelklou, had posted antisemitic and racist statements on social media, such as "It is clear that the Jews are the root of all evil in the world." Two years ago, it was exposed that some party members had connections with neo-Nazi movements even in recent years. For instance, one party member in southern Sweden, Jonas Lingren, publicly supported rock bands advocating for "white supremacy" and used the slogan "Skinhead 88" (88 is a known code for Heil Hitler, i.e., HH).

[+] parpol@programming.dev -4 points 11 months ago

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[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Being racist does not make you far-right

Being openly racist absolutely does mean being right wing. What else would it mean? That's the main platform the right has, they just bury it under euphemisms and pretend it doesn't exist. The ones who are too stupid to obfuscate their racist remarks are the far-right.

[-] snek@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dude, they are in the right block, they are a far right party, no one in Sweden thinks otherwise. It would be ridiculous. Just read their Wikipedia page or something: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

These people kindly collect evidence of the ongoing racism, authoritarianism and other questionable activities of SD. The Nazis didn't go anywhere, just rebranded

[+] parpol@programming.dev -7 points 11 months ago

Well they seem to have gone somewhere else now, as the politicians with official positions that committed crimes or made offensive comments seem to have been fired.

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That statement is absurd, especially in relation to the link. A lot of the articles in there are about top SD politicians, even the recent posts. For example, the comments on it being impossible for jews to be swedish, made by current SD MPs in defense of even higher ranking current SD member. You may not find that offensive -- as implied by your comment -- but there are jewish groups interviewed in the linked article for that item that seems to find it offensive.

[-] snek@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A center party lol

Question: where did you get this information or impression? Really curious.

No, they are far right. I think if anyone called them centrists in Sweden, they'd get laughed at.

People in the party still do and say Nazi things despite their attempts to get rid of them. No party wants to have them in government... Right now they are in a coallotion with no government seats because this shit wouldn't fly with Swedish society.

They are anti immigrant, racist, transphobic, and dabble in conspiracy theories.

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