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Swedish Politician Fantasizes About Deporting Jews From Israel

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Garth Kant Contributor
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A candidate for Swedish parliament reportedly has her own Middle East peace plan: send the Jews in Israel to America.

Oldoz Javid, a candidate with the Feminist Initiative party, accused Israeli Jews of “stealing land” and livelihoods from the Palestinians, according to the Times of Israel.

The paper reported she also accused Americans of doing the same, presumably from Native Americans, during an interview with the Feministiskt Perspektiv website.

“So why not invite their friends over to their land and make room for them on the farm?” she proposed, referring to Americans and Israeli Jews.

“They seem to enjoy each other’s company. And the Palestinians can live in peace and again build up the country that once was theirs. I can allow myself at least get a dream about such a solution, right?”

To further illustrate Javid’s views on Israel, she gave the interview while sailing with dozens of activists toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the territory run by the terrorist group Hamas.

Israel maintains the blockade to prevent Hamas from receiving weapons by sea.

Javid had second thoughts about making her notion to deport Jews public.

On Tuesday, she asked that the line about deportation be removed from her interview on Friday with the Feministiskt Perspektiv website.

She asked for the retraction because, she said, her suggestion to deport Jews from Israel might be “misinterpreted.”

Javidi wrote on Facebook: “I have asked FemPers to remove the last quote in the current article because it does not in any way express the policy of Feminist Initiative, nor was it a proposal for a political solution, but a fantasy that I now understand could be misinterpreted or misunderstood.”

Javidid was criticized by several Swedish Jews, according to the Times of Israel.

“Moving Jews against their will to solve a problem? Sounds like a final solution to me,” Annika Hernroth-Rothstein reportedly wrote on Facebook.