Sweden’s Assyrian Community and Its Attitude towards Israel and Jews

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.IvanGoncharenkoEladBen-DrorSweden’s Assyrian Community and Its Attitude towards Israel and Jewshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/QX9MBLIYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/QX9MBLIYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/QX9MBLIYIsrael Affairs27:620211223-1238This article examines attitudes within Sweden’s Assyrian community towards Israel, based on responses to a Swedish-language questionnaire distributed via the community’s electronic mailing list. The emergent picture is one of strong sympathy for the Jewish state, seen by respondents as a shining example of national self-determination based on the ingathering of the exiles – a dream nurtured by the world-dispersed small Assyrian nation. In addition, due to their deep animosity towards Turkey and the Arab states on account of their centuries-long persecution of the Assyrians, Swedish Assyrians tend to favour Israel in its feud with the Palestinians. Goncharenko, Ivan, and Elad Ben-Dror. “Sweden’s Assyrian Community and Its Attitude towards Israel and Jews.” Israel Affairs 27:6 (2021): 1223–38. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1993015. Ivan Goncharenko and Elad Ben-Dror, Sweden’s Assyrian Community and Its Attitude towards Israel and Jews, Israel Affairs 27:6 (2021): 1223–38, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1993015.AssyriansEuropeJewish-Christian relationsPalestineXIX-XXI CEXXI CEdiasporanationalism