Progressive Sweden Goes Medieval

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Sweden is going to the polls in September, which means that all the class clowns are now trying to become popular. There’s nothing they won’t do that can turn their ill-conceived ideas into government policies. Clowns are often fun, but election time reminds us of how scary they can be.

The Swedish party that has gathered many new clowns in recent years is the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet). It used to be the Sweden’s Communist Party, but it rebranded itself after the Soviet Union collapsed and Stalinist dictatorship went out of fashion. The party’s old ideas were now progressive ideas. Or so we were told.

The past two week have been bad ones for the Left Party. Investigative journalist Inas Hamdan, who is fluent in Arabic, has written a series of articles for the newspaper Expressen in which she revealed how 25 of the party’s candidates have not only praised the Hamas terrorists on 7 October 2023, but on social media denied the Holocaust and shared antisemitic conspiracy theories. The list is too long for this article, but thankfully, some clowns are more progressive than others.

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My favourite clown on the list has to be Islam Qatesh, running for the party in Karlskrona. He has been an active member of the party for more than a decade. He was suspended from school in 2006 after he openly praised the top leaders of al-Qaeda. Apparently, that school wasn’t progressive enough for people like him, but he was welcome to run for public office as a progressive left-winger.

In June 2025, Qatesh published a tribute to Saeed al-Hotari, who carried out a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub 24 years prior. In Arabic, he writes about the heroic martyr who “sacrificed his pure body in the heart of the Zionist entity”. At the time, even Yasser Arafat had sense enough to condemn it, but I guess that clown wasn’t a true progressive.

After the elimination of the Hezbollah leader in September 2024, Qatesh wrote online that people like Hassan Nasrallah will live forever because pride and honour cannot die. Well, there are collapsed cement blocks in Lebanon that contradict that idea.

In October 2024, after the IDF had eliminated Yahya Sinwar when he tried to hide behind an unforgivably ugly sofa, Qatesh wrote a eulogy portraying the Hamas leader as a hero fighting for freedom.

So what did Qatesh say when confronted by the journalist? What does he say about his candidacy in the upcoming election? The answer: He says that his opinions online are for an Arabic audience and that he has other opinions when using the Swedish language.

It really can’t get more clownery than this.

Ruqayyah Alkhatib from Örebro is a clown that denies the Holocaust and writes posts online about how Jews and Israel are deliberately forcing migration onto Europe and America, the reason being to replace white Europeans with people of color. It’s a popular conspiracy theory among far-right influencers, but only a progressive clown who herself immigrated to Europe can market this idea with a straight face.

Another favorite clown is Tamam Hashan from Helsingborg. On 7 October 2023, only a few hours after the most deadly pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust, Hashan and her fellow progressives were too excited to stay indoors. They had to celebrate in public. About 50 of them gathered in the city’s main square, where they handed out candy to bypasses while waving Palestinian flags. Hashan said that she wished that she herself would one day become a martyr, or, at least, that she would one day be the mother of a martyr.

Hashan and the other clowns further stressed their jubilance by dressing children up in uniforms, to look like Hamas terrorists. So, there the stood, small children, dressed up as terrorists, on public display, while being fed candy and listening to adults who wish they were martyrs.

Children should laugh at clowns, not be parented by them.

Another one of the happy clowns in that square was Nidal Hejjo. She couldn’t hold back her joy that day. On the internet she wrote that the onslaught showed that a victory for Allah is imminent. She published photos of the Israeli victims while likening the Hamas terrorists to flying falcons and proud lions.

Soha Elhams was also present that day. She was over the moon when she went on social media and wrote, “The Palestinians today write the greatest heroic stories on the land of Palestine through their faith and their desire for freedom, without fatigue or resignation, and with a faithful soul.”

I can’t leave Nabil El-Khatib out. In August 2025, he shared a video on Facebook claiming that Jews run global politics and control world finances. It’s progressive antisemitism straight out of medieval Europe.

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On 10 June, there was a party leadership debate in the Swedish Parliament. The Left Party’s head clown, Nooshi Dadgostar, did her best to play dumb and talk about other things. But the other party leaders were not keen on letter her get off that easy. For a brief moment, I felt sorry for her. I’m sure she wanted a sofa to hide behind.

When confronted again an again with the question of how her party had allowed not one, not two, but 25 antisemitists and terror sympathisers to be on its ballot papers, Dadgostar said some mumbo-jumbo about being opposed to Nazism and then began to talk about the genocide in Gaza. Yes, I know, it’s the reflex of a progressive clowns to blame everything on Israel. Yeah, sure, it’s slightly bad to kill unarmed Jews dancing at a music festival, but what about the Gaza terrorists who get their sofas blown up?

My hope is that the Left Party is left out in the cold this autumn. There are enough clowns in the other parties. Swedish politics will do without progressive leftists who celebrate terror attacks, dress their children in Hamas gear, and share medieval ideas online.