Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism

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The Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism (Swedish: Svenska Kommittén Mot Antisemitism, SKMA) is a Sweden-based non-profit organization, founded in 1983, that works to counteract and spread knowledge about antisemitism. The organization has both Jewish and non Jewish members. It cooperates with a number of international organizations, including the US-based Anti-Defamation League.

1 History
2 Projects
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The SCAA documented the antisemitic incitement of Radio Islam, and its research was instrumental in the 1989 trial and conviction of Ahmed Rami for incitement against an ethnic group, a hate crime under Swedish law.^[1]

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The SCAA hosts seminars for teachers on antisemitism, racism and intolerance; White Power (neo-Nazi) music and neo-Nazi propaganda; and the Holocaust. It sponsors 12 day study tours in Israel for teachers as well as 8 day study tour to Poland. Among the places visited are Warszawa, Treblinka, Tykocin, Bialystok, Sobibor, WIodawa, Lublin, Majdanek, Zamosc, Belzec, Josefow, Zbylitowska Gora, Tarnow, Oswiecim, Krakow and Kazimierz.

The SCAA regularly publishes books and booklets. A partial list includes:

Det eviga hatet ("The Eternal Hatred", 1993)
Att urskulda antisemitism ("Exculpating Antisemitism", 1993)
Öga for öga ... ("An eye for an eye ...", 1995)
Förnekandet av Förintelsen; ("Denial of the Holocaust", 1995, 1996)
Nationalsocialismens Symboler; ("Symbols of National Socialism", 1997
Förintelsen. Utrotningen av Europas judar (a translation of the French book "Shoah - L'impossible oubli", by the French historian Anne Grunberg, 1997)