The Jewish Youth League spread the Nazi hoax

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Published 31 July 2024 at 21.17

Domestic. The tax-funded Jewish Youth Association in Sweden has, after massive criticism, deleted a post in which it was alleged that pro-Palestinian football fans cheered and chanted “Heil Hitler” during the Olympics.

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TwittraShare< p>“We have been alerted that the content of the video we previously shared does not match what we first thought. We are careful not to spread misinformation and have therefore taken down the post.”

So writes the Jewish Youth Association in a post on X on Wednesday.

The video they are referring to was published on the association's account two days earlier and it had managed to be spread further by various liberal politicians and the like.

It is about a clip from when Israel's national anthem was played before a soccer match during the Paris Olympics. The video has been shared by the Jewish propaganda account “Elder of Ziyon”, which claims that the pro-Palestinian fans did Hitler salutes and shouted “Heil Hitler”.

Video shows Olympics fans giving the Nazi salute and chanting "Heil Hitler" during the playing of Hatikva pic.twitter.com/OOGqH63J6I

— Elder of Ziyon (@elderofziyon) July 29, 2024

In fact, if you watch the video for yourself, you can see that the men are chanting “Palestine” and gesticulating with their arms like football fans do.

In the comments to the Judiska ungdomsförbundet correction, a number of users ask why the association waited two days to delete the post even though it was immediately alerted to the hoax.

In December, Smålandsposten reported that the Agency for Youth – and civil society affairs, MUCF, stopped a planned million grant for the Jewish Youth Federation for 2023. This with reference to “deficiencies in the democratic structure”.