To claim that government representatives are taking steps against fascism when they criticize activists who interrupt conversations is an "intellectual stomach splash", says Expressen's Linda Jerneck.
In a debate article in Sydsvenskan on Monday, 50 researchers from Lund University criticized, among others, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) for dismissing loud activists as "undemocratic and uncivilized".
"It is both surprising and ominous that researchers themselves ask to become political commissars," writes Jerneck.
Nor does DN's Max Hjelm believe that it is a good democratic strategy to "shout and disrupt hearings of politicians".
"You don't need to have studied a lot of political science, or like one of the debaters to be an 'assistant professor in musicology', to know that democracy is not only about deciding, but also about accepting when others win according to the rules of the game we have," he writes .
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50 researchers: Kristersson takes "steps towards fascism"
That government representatives dismiss protesters as undemocratic, uncivilized and destructive is a step in the development towards fascism. That's what 50 researchers at Lund University write on Sydsvenskan's debate page.
The writers highlight, among other things, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's (M) statement after he was interrupted by students in Lund who shouted, among other things, that the Swedish government is complicit in genocide for having supported Israel's war in Gaza. Kristersson replied that you should not interrupt each other and that we should not have a "street parliament".
"The prevailing attitude has become to regard democracy as an automatic and eternal system where citizen participation is limited to basic political rights and obligations, such as voting and obeying laws," write the researchers.
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The protests spread to several of America's top universities
The protests against Israel's warfare in Gaza and the United States' relationship with Israel are spreading from Columbia and Yale to more universities, the BBC writes. Last night, police broke up protests at New York University, and protest camps have sprung up at Berkeley, MIT and other prominent American institutions of learning.
During the night, arrests were made at several university protests, reports Al Jazeera.
The demonstrations have fueled a discussion about the right to freedom of expression and about the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism.
Democratic Congress politician Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi participates in the protests at Columbia University. She says, according to Time, that the organizers "made it quite clear" that the focus is on "the genocide and the actions of the Israeli government". She says generalizing criticism about anti-Semitism is particularly disrespectful to the many Jewish activists participating in the protests.
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The Israel-Hamas War|The Victims
Demonstrations for the hostages: "Many feel that time is running out"
Relatives of people taken hostage by the terrorist group Hamas have today held a protest in Tel Aviv to mark 200 days since their loved ones were taken to the Gaza Strip.
The families and others expressing solidarity lay on the ground and held up their red-painted hands. They demand that the Israeli government act to free the hostages.
The BBC has spoken to Aviva Siegel who was released in November after 51 days in captivity. Her husband Keith is still stuck.
- It's terrible. I have gone to pieces. It is so difficult to handle the situation. To think how they have it [...] the terrorists who were so brutal to us, and that Keith is still there.
Swedish Radio reports that there is concern among Israelis that the elderly hostages may be dead.
- Many feel that time is about to run out, says SR's correspondent Cecilia Uddén.
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