(Jerusalem Post) The Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that it was able to cancel a planned demonstration in Sweden in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, which was supposed to include the burning of a Torah scroll. Yet in a conversation with the Jerusalem Post, a Swedish-Israeli rabbi shared that it was actually leadership from the local Swedish Muslim community that assisted in persuading the organizer to cancel the provocative act.
According to Swedish media, an Egyptian writer who lives in Sweden recently submitted a request for this demonstration to the local police.
After the publication of the planned demonstration on Israeli radio, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “We acted immediately and decisively in order to prevent the shocking and humiliating event from taking place.”
