Published 25 January 2024 at 10.22
Domestic. Jamal El-Haj (S) has been accused of colluding with Hamas after participating in a much-publicized Palestine conference in Malmö this spring. Now he himself speaks out about the matter and explains that he does not regret his participation.
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– I am sorry that the focus on my participation in the conference has hurt the Social Democrats. But this is about my identity, about my DNA, about the existence of my family, says Jamal El-Haj to DN.
On Wednesday evening, the S politician participated in SVT's “Aktuellt” where he talked more about the conference – which he attended despite a dissuasion from his party after the chairman was singled out as a leading figure within Hamas.
– If one person out of 20,000 participants has certain connections to Hamas, not the entire Palestinian people and all Palestinians in Malmö and Europe for that, says Jamal El-Haj to SVT.
He states that he did not take the information about the chairman seriously.
– There is a suspicion about Palestinians when they meet when they demonstrate. And I thought this was about making us suspicious again.