Policies. the Christian Democrats’ leader Ebba Busch Thor will speak at a pro-Israeli rally in Stockholm weekend. But the organization behind criticized by Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
When the Zionist Federation August 28 manifests for Israel to Ebba Busch Thor and liberals Birgitta Ohlsson participate as speakers. The organization is part of the World Zionist Organization (WZO).
– WZO has as a main task to spread settlements in occupied territory. When Ebba Busch Thor sets up here, so she is one of those who support the occupation and the settlements, says Olle Katz, spokesperson for the Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
He believes that also parties need to make clear where they stand.
– the need to clarify their programs regarding Israel and Palestine. There is a great risk that many now perceive them as individuals and parties who support the occupation and illegal settlements, says Katz.
Criticized settlements
Per Jönsson, Middle East analyst at the Foreign Policy Institute , has on several occasions visited the settlers who told of how they get money by WZO.
– It is an old, international umbrella organization that supports the settlements for many years. They support Israel through thick and thin and because the Israeli political leadership is of settlements, support the settlements, he said.
The Swedish branch does not want to acknowledge that the main organization promoting settlements on occupied, Palestinian land.
– We are not political. We are neither for nor against settlements. This is a manifestation of Israel, a forum where you can publicly show that you support Israel, says Saskia Pantell, general secretary of the Zionist Federation.
She promises that the money that the organization collects in Sweden only goes to business here.
Defending involvement
Both Ebba Busch Thor and Birgitta Ohlsson says his participation via email.
“There is a widespread hatred and a constant threat to the democratic State of Israel. for me it is important to manifest against the growing anti-Semitism and stand up for the Jewish people’s rights and freedom both in Sweden and abroad” writes Ebba Busch Thor. She greets the same time that “of course, is neither I nor my party behind the illegal settlement policy.”
Birgitta Ohlsson writes that she is invited to speak by the Jewish Youth League. “For me it is important to manifest the right of Israel to exist as a state. Something that is questioned by the movements and countries that want to build Palestine on the ruins of Israel. We Liberals took as one of Western Europe’s first parties committed to a two-state solution and oppose the settlement policy . Israel’s leading opposition politician Yair Lapid, the only one today who can challenge today’s right-wing government, will also speak. “
FACTS
Zionism and the WZO
Zionism is described as” political efforts to bring Jews’ return to Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. “
world Zionist organization, in Sweden known as the world Zionist organization, was formed at the first Jewish Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland, on the initiative of Theodore Herzl.
Its subdivision, the World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division, was established in 1971. It supports settlements in Israel, the occupied Golan Heights, the West Bank, and former Gaza.
There are about 547,000 settlers in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967. Israel believes that the settlements are legal. The UN and the rest of the world believes that they violate international law.
Sources: Encyclopedia, the World Zionist Organization, B’Tselem
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