Yvonne Ruwaida
Yvonne Ruwaida | |
|---|---|
 Lahti in 2018 | |
| Member of the Riksdag | |
| In office 2 October 1994 – 2 October 2006 | |
| Constituency | Stockholm Municipality |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) Göttingen, Germany |
| Political party | Green Party |
Yvonne Ruwaida (born 1970 in Göttingen, Germany) is a Swedish Green Party politician of Palestinian origin. She was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 1994 to 2006.[1]
She was born in 1970 in Göttingen, Germany to a Palestinian Bedouin father and Swedish mother. She was the eldest of five siblings.[2]
She was chairman of the Young Greens.[3]
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.[4][5][6]
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.[7]
References
- ^ "Yvonne Ruwaida (MP) - Riksdagen".
- ^ Josefsson, Leif-Åke (7 February 2004). ""Far föddes som beduin i öknen"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ^ Inkinen, Magdalena (28 February 1995). "Snygga kläder ger respekt". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 9.
Yvonne Ruwaida, ordförande i miljöpartiets ungdomsförbund, Grön ungdom, kämpar mot förutfattade meningar och den misstänksamhet som finns mot så kallade "fundisar" i miljöpartiet.
- ^ Egyptson, Sameh. (28 October 2018). Holy White Lies. Sameh Egyptson. p. 69. ISBN 978-977-02-8780-4. OCLC 1065025016.
- ^ "Hamas bjuds in av riksdagskvinnor". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2 May 2006. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "Hamas declared a terrorist organisation by Europe's highest court". The Independent. 26 July 2017. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "Stark lobby och få dåd i Sverige". Skånska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 28 December 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
External links
- Yvonne Ruwaida at the Riksdag website