Foreign policy dictated by Malmö

Yesterday the ‘Leisure Committee’ of Malmö’s City Council decided that the Davis Cup match between Sweden and Israel, which is scheduled to take place in Malmö on the 6-8 March, will be played without an audience. The Labour chairman of the committee, Bengt Forsberg, claimed that it was because of “security concerns” that they had made the decision, which will lead to the city council losing 2 MSEK (approx. £160,000) instead of making a profit of 1,2 MSEK (approx. £95,000), another brilliant example of Labour’s attitude to tax-payers money. His coalition partner from the former communist party, Carlos Gonzáles Ramos, made no attempt to hide his sentiments:, saying that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, and therefore should be banned from playing in Sweden, but since that is not possible, this is the second best thing.


The chairman of Malmö’s City Council, Ilmar Reepalu (Labour) does not agree with his (former) communist colleague that banning would be impossible, and has today made a statement in which he says that the match should not go ahead , and that it is right to boycott Israel. I find it remarkable that the chairman of a city council thinks it is his thing to form Swedish foreign policy, but hubris is something that seems to come natural to socialists and communists (just look at Chavez!).


None is this is however surprising, but rather something symptomatic for the left. I find it absurd that boycott demands are always brought forward by the left towards the democratic state of Israel, a beacon of light and freedom in the Middle East, whereas Palestinian terrorists are cuddled with. This is a very poignant example that the left is not unused to using violence, cold-blooded murder and terrorism to reach their political aims, and that democracy isn’t all that important to them.

My dear friend Karl Malmqvist has made a great post on the topic here (in Swedish), where he among other things expresses his surprise that Ilmar Reepalu had no problem with Sweden competing in the Olympic Games in the dictatorship and human-rights violator communist China. Really Karl, were you expecting a Labour politician to be logical and consistent?