Published 28 October 2024 at 13.03
Foreign. The Christian Democrats' EU parliamentarian Alice Teodorescu now proposes that it should become mandatory to believe in Israel and “Judeo-Christian values” in order to become a Swedish citizen. The proposal is heavily criticized – but KD states that it could become the party's official policy.
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It is in an article on its website with the headline “No left-wing Nazis on our streets” as Alice Teodorescu discusses how to combat the phenomenon of Muslim immigrants demonstrating against Israel.
“People who incite violence and threaten the Jewish minority must be prosecuted and, in cases where they lack Swedish citizenship, deported without pardon”, she writes and continues:
“In order to even obtain Swedish citizenship, it should be required, just as in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, that the person who wishes to become a Swedish citizen also recognizes the right of the state of Israel to exist and also intends to embrace the Judeo-Christian values on which Swedish democracy rests. These are all about the achievements of the Enlightenment that laid the foundation for Western, liberal democracy in which the view of equality, secularism, individualism and tolerance is decisive.”
The proposal has received a lot of attention on X (formerly Twitter), where many are critical of Alice Teodorescu. The popular anti-immigration user Mr Husis calls her proposal “psychotic”.
Alice Teodorescu also wants it to be easier to revoke citizenship for people who do not live up to “the commitment”.
KD's press secretary Arvid Janson writes to Expressen that the party may officially push the proposals from Alice Teodorescu.
“Alice is part of the Christian Democrats' working group to strengthen the community. The task of the working group is to propose concrete measures to strengthen and guard the community that built our country strong. One of the areas to be dealt with within the group's work is the citizenship issue. The proposal that Alice proposes is therefore up to the working group to decide on. The party then takes a position on what the working group proposes,” he writes.
Alice Teodorescu was elected to the European Parliament this summer as a representative of the Christian Democrats and has since spent a very large amount of time tweeting about Israel and anti-Semitism.
I have read many psychotic statements from Teodorescu – but the statement that Swedish democracy rests on “Judeo-Christian values” and that Swedish citizenship must be conditional on whether you recognize “Israel's right to exist” is so laughably psychotic that I don't… pic.twitter.com/earjEctrH0
— Herr Husis (@HerrHusis) October 26, 2024