Published 23 September 2024 at 10.23
EU. Strengthen the legislation against crimes of opinion and make it possible to revoke the passports of citizens convicted of anti-Semitism. That's what a proposal from the Sweden Democrats reads, but after the party's own member of parliament Richard Jomshof was served with a suspicion of a breach of opinion, the Social Democrats are now accusing SD of hypocrisy.
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It was the experienced KD politician Charlie Weimers, now an EU member of parliament for the Sweden Democrats, who put forward the proposal for revoked passports in confirmed cases of anti-Semitism.
– When we can, we should revoke the citizenship of those convicted of anti-Semitism crime, Weimers suggested when SD launched the requirement last spring.
The issue received a new boost on Thursday when the Social Democrats' Evin Incir and Weimers clashed in a debate on anti-Semitism and hate propaganda in the EU Parliament.
Incir accused the Sweden Democrats of having a double standard and raised the fact that the justice committee's chairman Richard Jomshof was recently forced to resign following suspicions of incitement against a group of people aimed at Muslims.
Despite the SD's sharp view on crimes of opinion directed against Jews, Jomshof's suspected crime of opinion has not led to any measures from the SD's party group in the EU, ECR.
Incir believed that the Moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals should end their Tidö collaboration with the Sweden Democrats.
– These three parties lack a backbone. Instead, the racists are allowed to continue shaping the government's policy in Sweden. It is a scandal that divides both Sweden and the EU, said Evin Incir.
Weimers defended himself as usual by starting to talk passionately about anti-Semitism and defended Jomshof, as well as accusing the Social Democrats of allowing “anti-Semitism to rampant”.< /p>
– The same party that demands Richard Jomshof's resignation because he shares satirical images that warn of social development. It's not just hypocrisy, it's worse than that, said Charlie Weimers.
Christian Democrats' EU parliamentarian Alice Teodorescu Måwe, formerly a prominent profile in the Bulletin newspaper, supported Weimers by drawing a fateful parallel to the Holocaust.< /p>
– Never again is now, said Alice Teodorescu Måwe emphatically.