Far-right party says Rebecka Fallenkvist’s online post about Jewish columnist is ‘insensitive’
An official of the Sweden Democrats has been suspended by the far right for making degrading comments about Anne Frank.
In an Instagram post that has now been deleted, Rebecka Fallenkvist called the young Jewish columnist “immoral,” among other things, according to Swedish media.
Anne Frank, who kept a diary while hiding in Amsterdam before being captured, died at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Nazi Germany in February 1945.
The post via Fallenkvist, the Sweden Democrats’ 26-year-old head of television programming, drew strong reactions from Jewish teams and Israel’s ambassador, Ziv Nevo Kulman, who tweeted: “I strongly condemn this despicable and disrespectful insult to the reminiscence of Anne Frank. His post included what appeared to be a screenshot of Fallenkvist’s Instagram post.
The Sweden Democrats’ media director, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, told Swedish news firm TT that he would take Fallenkvist’s “insensitive and inappropriate” comments seriously and launch an internal investigation.
The Sweden Democrats were founded in the 1980s through others who had been active in far-right groups, adding neo-Nazis. The party The largest party of the moment in Sweden in the elections of September 11 under the leadership of Jimmie Åkesson.
On Friday, three Swedish center-right parties agreed to form a coalition government with the Sweden Democrats, who have moved into mainstream politics but maintain a hard line on immigration.