A statement made by Sweden Democrat Björn Söder was listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as number six on the top ten worst anti-semitic incidents in 2014.

In an interview in Dagens Nyheter newspaper, Söder had said he believed that most of the people "with Jewish origins who have become Swedes have left behind their Jewish identity. But if they don't, it doesn't have to be a problem. One must differentiate between citizenship and nationhood."

Björn Söder was newly made the second deputy speaker of Parliament, and is is the secretary of the Sweden Democrat Party.

The party is seen as...