Europe
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli hailed the move as a “courageous and critical decision by the Swedish government.”
A fifth-grade history textbook presents Jews as “merciless.”
The European Jewish Congress said the ban, which was opposed by the Swiss government, “sends a powerful message.”
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar responded on X with a post he headlined “Once an antisemitic liar—always an antisemitic liar.”
The summit will be followed by the first high-level dialogue with the Palestinian Authority.
“When they recognize a Palestinian state and receive thank-you notes from Hamas, we understand where they stand,” says Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich.
Michael Freilich is the first Orthodox Jewish lawmaker in Belgium.
It would be “extremely surprising” if the best historical source “forgot or did not know who were the Jewish leaders of this war which devastated the area,” writes Haggai Olshanetsky, a University of Warsaw historian and archeologist.
“When Jewish children died of hunger in the Shoah, you were at best neutral in the war against Nazi Germany,” Gideon Sa’ar said of Prime Minister Simon Harris.
“Facts can never be a criminal offense,” said Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer, who has appealed after being charged with incitement to intolerance in July.
The foreign minister also ordered the opening of an embassy in Moldova.
“Jewish communities throughout the world are contending with levels of uncertainty, insecurity and danger not experienced since the Second World War,” said the U.S. representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
