{"id":310717,"date":"2026-09-28T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/310717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:42:06","slug":"man-hurls-genocide-libel-after-defacing-israeli-flag-at-swedish-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/310717\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Hurls &#8216;Genocide&#8217; Libel After Defacing Israeli Flag at Swedish Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested at the Gothenburg Book Fair on Saturday after <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/jewish-world\/article\/h1fp9sh5zx#autoplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">covering an Israeli flag in red paint<\/a> at the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association\u2019s booth and accusing the Jewish state of \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His hands still red, the man can be heard on video shouting, \u201cIsrael is committing genocide.\u201d He kept going as security guards removed him. \u201cThis is a peaceful protest and we do this for all the children being killed by Israel,\u201d he continued. \u201cIsrael is an apartheid state. They are criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His rhetoric draws on a centuries-old antisemitic trope. The medieval blood libel falsely accused Jews of murdering Christian children. Today, that imagery is repackaged in claims portraying the Jewish state as deliberately slaughtering children. His \u201capartheid\u201d accusation likewise disregards the political rights of Israel\u2019s Arab citizens, who vote and serve in the Knesset.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, a handful of demonstrators outside the fair had raised a sign reading \u201cDeath to the IDF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fair had already drawn fire over the participation of Jonathan Conricus, a former IDF spokesman for international media. Egyptian poet and author Iman Mersal and Palestinian author and journalist Bissan Edwan announced their withdrawal in protest of Conricus\u2019s appearance, Swedish media reported. Palestinian activist Taha Khatab went further, filing a police complaint against both the fair and the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association, according to public broadcaster SVT.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Ambassador to Sweden Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig said, \u201cThis attack is not only an attempt to delegitimize Israel and the friends of Israel, it is an attack on free speech and open discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Lega, chairman of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association and a former Gothenburg city council member for the Christian Democrats, had a direct answer for the fair\u2019s critics. \u201cCome to our booth. Talk to us. Ask us questions, criticize our presentations and challenge our arguments. But don\u2019t try to silence people because you don\u2019t like what they say,\u201d he told SVT.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SWEDEN \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea During a conversation about Israel with Widar Andersson, a Jew-hater threw red paint or ketchup on Swedish Jews who were attending the Gothenburg Book Fair. The activist also vandalized an Israeli flag.<\/p>\n<p>The activist threatened and intimidated participants in an attempt\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PPAOmb4FSL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PPAOmb4FSL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Jew Hatred (@EndJewHatred) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EndJewHatred\/status\/2103984116232224973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take Action<\/p>\n<p>CAM has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/combatantisemitism.org\/cam-news\/cam-launches-new-report-it-app-to-document-antisemitic-incidents-in-real-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Report It<\/a>, a secure app to report antisemitic incidents anonymously and in real time. Don\u2019t stay silent. Download it today on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/il\/app\/report-it-now\/id6751249769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple App Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=branded.m526dda9786f74d7e93a6662e2d131bc1.myapp&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Google Play<\/a>. See it. Report it. Stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested at the Gothenburg Book Fair on Saturday after covering an Israeli flag in red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,1142],"class_list":["post-310717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117350376577510266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}