Published 29 January 2024 at 13.41
Domestic. In silence, Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson is making a visit to Israel – where they are very careful to emphasize that the Swedish politician is traveling unofficially.
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The SD has probably been the party whose leading representatives have most clearly been on Israel's side in the ongoing war in Gaza, which is being investigated as genocide.
At the same time, the Israeli government has a standing policy that the SD is a Nazi party whose representatives you are not even allowed to stay in the same room with.
Jimmie Åkesson's ongoing pilgrimage to the holy land has therefore taken place in silence, writes Expressen.
The SD leader today visits the official Holocaust museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
– Jimmie Åkesson is here today. It is an unofficial visit that is not coordinated with our State Department, emphasizes Simmy Allen, spokesperson at Yad Vashem, for the newspaper.
Last year SD leaders Richard Jomshof and Charlie Weimers visited Israel under similar secrecy . After that trip, the two top politicians have been extra Israel-friendly in their communication, with lots of Israeli flags and the like.