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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    To the surprise of hopefully no one. The far-right were always in favor of Israel for geopolitical reasons.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    81·
    3 days ago

    I wonder how long ago those same people were spewing anti-jewish slurs

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I think it was Heinrich Himmler who spoke favorably about Israel while planning and committing the holocaust. It makes sense, really.

    • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      3 days ago

      They still are. Hypocrisy is no dealbreaker for being a right winger.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        They totally are. Its just so stupid that isnt called out by media. Its starting to look like they could decorate the conference with swastika banners and that would get almost as little reaction too.

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      They invited a person from Sweden Democrats, which have been blacklisted from Israel in the past. SD have members who have said “the jews are the root of all evil”, are on record for singing antisemitic songs, written prasies of and been photographed with an actual SS volunteer, and generally hold the opinion that jews cannot be swedish, they can only dress in the swedish identity but never belong to the swedish nation. And that is just the top layer of that party who are still there.