Lasse Wilhelmson was born in 1941 in Stockholm, Sweden and has been retired since 2005. He is married to Lena, who is a Reader in Education, and has a large family with five children and a growing number of grandkids. Lasse’s professional life has been dominated by pedagogical questions in different contexts, starting out as a researcher and teacher at the university and ending as a wood-work instructor at a suburban school in Stockholm. He has a long experience of idealistic anti-imperialist solidarity work, from Vietnam until today. And he has as well been a union representative. Lasse has further worked on voluntary basis as an elected representative in his local council for 23 years, representing a coalition cutting across party lines. He was active in the revolutionary movement of 1968, and later within a Jewish peace group. Today Lasse is neither a Marxist nor a Jew and sees himself as a politically and ideologically independent humanist who regards the fight for Palestinian rights as the key to a peaceful world and Zionism as the biggest threat to humanity today.
Zionism – more than traditional colonialism and apartheid
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What do YOU think?
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“Anti-Semitism” as a political weapon
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What is Zionism?
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ArabNyheter interviews Lasse Wilhelmson
This is a republication of the interview that appeared in the old ArabNyheter. It was first published in September 2010. Mousa Almllahi is the chief editor of ArabNyheter (in Arabic…
Liberate Al Quds and Palestine!
My speech and my own account of what happened at the Al-Quds manifestation in Stockholm on the 20th September 2009, with pictures to illustrate what went on. It should be…
The Uprisings in the Arab World – Reflections on Democracy
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Quo vadis?
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In defence of Gilad Atzmon in Sweden
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Circumcision of Boys – for Jews only?
Göran Rosenberg (1) puts forward two ethnocentric arguments in an article published in the Swedish daily newspaper, SvD. It is the final article in a discussion on circumcision. The first is…
Circumcision debate in Sweden part 1
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Paideia for All or just for “The Chosen”?
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