Sweden has authorized several demonstrations at which sacred texts were to be burned in recent weeks
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has warned his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billstrom that a planned demonstration on Friday, which was set to feature a Torah book being set alight outside its embassy in Stockholm, could have damaged the two countries’ relationship on the world stage.
In a statement on Friday, Cohen said he was “horrified by the additional threat to burn a Torah book in Sweden,” and called upon the nation’s leadership to impose measures to end ongoing threats to destroy religious texts in the EU country.
The demonstration did not go ahead, Israel National News reported later on Friday, with the protester instead setting alight a blank sheet of paper which she said was a “symbol of the Swedish system that is empty of content.”
“I talked with my friend the Swedish foreign minister and made clear to him that we expect the Swedish government to prevent events like this, which are liable to harm relations between our countries,” Cohen stated ahead of the proposed Torah-burning.
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