The left party is criticized after a meeting with Fatah representatives

The Left Party invited two representatives of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, the party that governs the West Bank, to a meeting in October 2025. According to reports by GP, the representatives praised martyrdom and referred to a person who killed three people in a terror attack in Tel Aviv as a “martyr.”

Ida Gabrielsson of the Left Party does not believe the invitation indicated that the Left Party agrees with the views of those invited.

“The meeting has nothing to do with us supporting these men’s opinions; rather, we wanted to hear their perspective on the conflict in the West Bank.”

According to Ida Gabrielsson, it was not up to the Left Party to decide which individuals Fatah chose to send.

“If one has to ask in advance which persons an organization intends to send, in order to review their social media, it becomes difficult to hold any meetings at all,” she said, describing the revelation as a “low point.”

Yesterday, Expressen revealed that eight Left Party members had shared conspiracy-theory-based antisemitic content on social media.

“The vast majority of those who have now been removed from our lists had no official assignments and were not in electable positions,” said Ida Gabrielsson, who believes the Left Party’s candidate lists have been scrutinized more harshly than those of other parties, and calls for a “lowered tone in the election campaign.”