Yvonne Ruwaida

Yvonne Ruwaida (born 14 August 1970 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a Swedish Green Party politician of Palestinian origin. She was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 1994 to 2006.[1]

Yvonne Ruwaida

As a member of parliament, Ruwaida together with Mariam Osman Sherifay (Social democrats) invited two representatives of the palestinian organization Hamas, which at the time was categorized as a terrorist organization by the EU. The invitees were a group leader in the palestine parliament and a relative of a Hamas leader which had been killed.[2][3][4]

From 2006 until 2010, she was the leader of the Greens in the city council in Stockholm Municipality, where they were part of the opposition. Since then, she is vice-convener of the Green Party's central directorate.

According to terror scholar Magnus Ranstorp, Ruwaida is opposed to strengthening the anti-terror legislation in Sweden.[5]

References
  1. http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1811&iid=0332753845811
  2. Egyptson, Sameh. Holy White Lies. p. 69. ISBN 978-977-02-8780-4. OCLC 1065025016.
  3. "Hamas bjuds in av riksdagskvinnor". DN.SE (in Swedish). 2006-05-02. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  4. "Hamas declared a terrorist organisation by Europe's highest court". The Independent. 2017-07-26. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  5. "Stark lobby och få dåd i Sverige". Skånska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.


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