SCAA - Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism
The Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, SCAA, is a nonprofit, politically and religiously non-affiliated organization set up in 1983 to combat antisemitism and racial prejudice in Sweden. The organization has both Jewish and non Jewish members. SCAA cooperates with other anti-racist organizations, with schools, political groups and parties, and academic institutions.
During 1997 1998 SCAA has participated in joint projects with the Swedish Government information and education campaign Living History. A member of the SCAA, Stephane Bruchfeld, was one of the cowriters of the much acclaimed book on the Holocaust, "Tell ye your children... ", which was published and distributed by the Swedish government in 1998. In 1998 the SCAA also arranged a visit to Auschwitz for representatives of the Swedish government and other officials. The visit was followed up by a study-tour organized by the SCAA to different educational institutions in Israel.
The Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism runs long term education projects and counteracts antisemitic manifestations when they occur. The SCAA monitors the activities and propaganda of racist groups and informs the public, politicians, judicial authorities and the media of such activities. The SCAA has several times filed complaints with the Attorney-General regarding anti-Jewish, racist and Nazi propaganda.
Members of the SCAA are often engaged by schools and organizations to lecture on antisemitism, Nazism, the Holocaust and Holocaust-denial. The staff of the Committee supplies both teachers and pupils with material on these topics.
The work of the SCAA is nationwide and among the ongoing projects are the following:
- Seminars for teachers on
- antisemitism, racism and intolerance
- so called White Power (neo-Nazi) music and neoNazi propaganda
- the Holocaust
- 12 day study tours in Israel for teachers. The program consists of seminars and workshops at Lohamei Hagethaot, Yad Vashem, Massuah and Bet Terezin. A preparatory as well as a follow-up seminar is held in Sweden.
- 8 day study tour to Poland for mainly teachers. Among the places visited are Warszawa, Treblinka, Tykocin, Bialystok, Sobibor, WIodawa, Lublin, Majdanek, Zamosc, Belzec, Josefow, Zbylitowska Gora, Tarnow, Oswiecim, Krakow and Kazimierz.
Preparatory and followup seminars are held in Sweden. - Debates and hearings on differents topics related to the SCAA's work for MP:s, journalists and others
- The SCAA regularly publishes books and booklets; Det eviga hatet; (The Eternal Hatred -1993), Att urskulda antisemitism (ExcuIpating Antisemitism 1993), Öga for öga ... (An eye for an eye ... - 1995), Förnekandet av Förintelsen; (Denial of the Holocaust - 1995, 1996), Nationalsocialismens Symboler; (The Symbols of National Socialism - 1997), and in cooperation with Berghs publishing house - Förintelsen. Utrotningen av Europas judar (a translation of the French book "Shoah - L'impossible oubli", by the French historian Anne Grunberg - 1997).
- The SCAA annually reports on developments in Sweden in Antisemifism World Report JPR, London and Antisemitism Worldwide - Tel Aviv University
During 2000 the SCAA will arrange a comprehensive one year study program for Swedish educators. The course will consist of preparatory seminars on nazism, antisemitism and the Holocaust, as well as present day issues relating to these topics.
The participants will examine their own values and prejudices and will together discuss pedagogical aspects of the education on antisemitism and the Holocaust.
The next phase of the education will be a study tour in Poland, visiting places of interest with regard to Jewish life before the Holocaust, as well as the former death camps.
Some months later the participants will have an indepth seminar at Lohamei Hagethaot and Yad Vashem and the education project is concluded with followup seminars in Sweden.
For further information:
SCAA, Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, P.0.B 14 216, SE-104 40 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: + 46 8 667 60 90, Fax: + 46 8 663 0102
e-mail: skma@swipnet.se
Website: www.skma.se
Contact persons: Lena Jersenius or Henrik Bachner