Swedish Communists Use Israel to Justify Militancy

Yesterday, Swedish media reported that the Left Party has an election poster with a man carrying a T-shirt from the militant group AFA, responsible for numerous attacks on elected officials and therefore considered a threat to democracy by the Swedish Security Service.

Today, the party’s Alingsås branch retorts by bashing centre-right support for Israel.

In my translation, the tweet reads:

We understand that the Right is raging over the T-shirt on our poster.

What we don’t understand is their support for an extremely violent organisation that oppresses an entire people, kills their children, and takes their land.

And no, they don’t refer to the daily bombardment of Israel from Gaza.