12% of Swedes support Israel

Published 9 December 2024 at 08.01

Domestic. The Tidö parties compete in supporting Israel – but almost all voters have the opposite opinion. A majority of Swedes are negative about Israel and only 12 percent are positive about the country, shows a large survey from Indikator.

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Recently parties have as SD, KD and the Moderates competed in showing support for Israel.

The Moderates have called Israel's controversial warfare in Gaza “proportional” and SD leader Jimmie Åkesson recently promised a leading Jewish YouTuber to try to restrict the freedom of expression­fundamental law so that demonstrations critical of Israel can be banned on Swedish streets.

But a survey among 3,000 randomly selected Swedes shows that it is hardly the voters that the politicians are trying to appeal to through all their outpourings of support for Israel.

Only 12 percent of Swedes state that they have a positive attitude towards Israel and over half, 52 percent, instead say that they have a negative image of the country.

At the same time, 44 percent of Swedes, i.e. slightly fewer, view the Palestinian Authority negatively and significantly more, 75 percent, view Hamas negatively.

It is only among the voters of the Christian Democrats that almost half, 47 percent, view Israel positively.

Most critical of Israel are the voters of the Left Party, where a full 87 percent answer that they are negative towards Israel.