Stockholm: A Sweden Democrats official has been suspended by the far-right occasion for making degrading feedback about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.
In an Instagram posting that has now been deleted, Rebecka Fallenkvist known as Anne “immoral” amongst different issues, in accordance with Swedish media.
Rebecka Fallenkvist, a Sweden Democrats official, was suspended by the far-right occasion for making degrading feedback about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank. Credit score:AP
Anne, who wrote a diary whereas in hiding in Amsterdam earlier than she was captured, died at age 15 in Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen focus camp in February 1945.
The posting by Fallenkvist, a 26-year-old head of tv programming for the Sweden Democrats, prompted robust reactions from Jewish teams and Israeli ambassador Ziv Nevo Kulman, who in a tweet mentioned: “I strongly condemn this despicable insult, disrespectful of the reminiscence of Anne Frank.” His posting included what gave the impression to be a screenshot of Fallenkvist’s Instagram submit.
The Sweden Democrats’ media director, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, informed the Swedish information company TT that the occasion would take Fallenkvist’s “insensitive and inappropriate” feedback severely and launch an inner investigation on the matter.
Whereas it remained unclear what sort of level Fallenkvist wished to make together with her feedback on Anne’s diary, she despatched later a textual content message to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter saying she had been misinterpreted.
“The ebook is a transferring depiction of human good and evil,” Fallenkvist mentioned in her message to the newspaper. “The nice Anne, who within the first chapters is like every other younger woman dwelling her life in peace and discovering an curiosity in boys (which I highlighted), is contrasted with the evil of Nazism. My story was aimed on the good and human in Anne whereas not taking part in down the evil to which she was subjected.”
Sweden Democrats was based within the Nineteen Eighties by individuals who had been lively in right-wing extremist teams, together with neo-Nazis. The occasion emerged as Sweden’s second-largest occasion within the September 11 election underneath the management of Jimmie Akesson.
On Friday, three Swedish centre-right events agreed to kind a coalition authorities with the help of the Sweden Democrats that has moved towards mainstream politics, however retains a tough line on immigration.
