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Sweden's police investigate shooting near Israeli target in Gothenburg, no injuries reported

The shooting took place near a Swedish unit of Elbit Systems, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported, citing police.

 People demonstrate outside the Stockholm District Court as they wait for the verdict in the case of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, in Stockholm, Sweden
 Emergency workers stand near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, January 31, 2024

Stockholm Police investigate shooting near Israeli embassy

 Flowers and candles are placed outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 11, 2023

Iranian agents suspected of targeting Jews arrested in Sweden, deported

 Photo of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden, with Hanna Halpern, the general secretary of the Jewish community.

Sweden's Crown Princess privately visited synagogue as solidarity with Jewish community


The human spirit: Dear Margot

What do you think, Ms. Wallström? Should we Israelis start wearing armor instead of shooting the terrorists who attack us?

Margot Wallström

Swedish opposition lawmakers to call Wallström out over Palestinian incitement

Former MK Lipman: Swedish FM answering difficult questions in a public setting is huge diplomatic success.

SWEDISH PARLIAMENTARIAN Margareta Cederfeldt (fifth from left) poses with, to her right, fellow MP Mikael Oscarsson, WZO director of public diplomacy Dov Lipman, Palestinian Media Watch’s Itamar Marcus and other opposition lawmakers yesterday in Stockholm

A strategy against Sweden’s anti-Israel inciters

In view of the widespread European anti-Semitism, Israel calling Wallström an anti-Semite is of little practical use.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom gestures during an interview with Swedish TT News Agency at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in central Stockholm, Sweden, on March 11, 2015

MK, youth activists rally outside Swedish embassy; demand FM's resignation

Earlier this week, Wallstrom called for an investigation to determine if Israel was guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians during the current wave of terrorism.

Protesters rally outside Swedish embassy, call for FM's resignation

Wallstrom’s chutzpah

Spurious attacks on Israel are a distraction from Sweden’s and Europe’s real challenge – dealing with a lawless and radicalized group of Muslims who see Europeans not as hosts but as enemies.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom

Comment: Sweden's walking diplomatic disaster

It seems that pretty much everything is going wrong for Sweden's foreign minister these days.

Margot Wallstrom and a Hamas militant

Swedish FM calls to probe Israeli violence against Palestinians in recent terror wave

Space Minister Ofir Akunis responded to the the claims, saying that an investigation should be conducted instead on "how a woman who so bluntly hates Israel was elected as foreign minister."

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom gestures during an interview with Swedish TT News Agency at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in central Stockholm, Sweden, on March 11, 2015

The Stockholm syndrome

Is the anti-Israel rhetoric of Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party down to a desire to placate the Arab world and its own restless Muslim community?

Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom

Swedish PM flip-flops Palestinian terror question

Latest misunderstanding comes after Foreign Minister accused Israel of extrajuditial killings.

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Netanyahu slams Swedish double standard toward Israel on terrorism

Swedish FM Wallström reportedly accused Israel of "extrajudicial killings" in parliament last week.

Wallstrom and Netanyahu