Swedish officials say freedom-of-speech law requires includes the right to the demonstration as planned. (JTA) — Israeli officials and Jewish leaders are pushing back after Swedish police ...

Israel summoned the Swedish ambassador Wednesday to express its "rage" following remarks by the Swedish foreign minister calling for an investigation Israeli state violence against Palestinians.

In a resounding display of international solidarity, members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union (SDU) voted by 68 percent in December to block the handling of military shipments to and from Israel.