""The Jerusalem Post" reported in 2014 that Björn Söder declared in an interview that most people of Jewish origin, who have become Swedes, leave their Jewish identity and that it is important to distinguish between citizenship and nationhood.Lena Posner Körösi, of the Official Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden told "The Guardian" that Söder’s statements were “exactly like in 1930s Germany” and that they constitute “good old right-wing anti-Semitism".