Researchers with a background in the Pentecostal movement who have allied themselves with Mattias Gardell have recently criticized Lewi Pethrus and the Pentecostal movement for antisemitism.
Gardell has lectured for a satanist sect and was an initiator of the anti-Israel Ship to Gaza movement, which had support from the terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood.
It’s about Thomas Poletti Lundström at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University, and his brother Markus Lundström, professor at Karlstad University, who is also affiliated with CEMFOR.
CEMFOR’s research director Gardell has lived with members of the Muslim movement Nation of Islam in the United States, stayed with racist revolutionaries in the U.S., and lived with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt—which has ties to the terrorist group Hamas.
The gross antisemitism that unites the Nation of Islam, American white power movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood has never been addressed by racism researcher Gardell, an initiator of Ship to Gaza, which has collaborated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Paganism
In 2001, after studying racist Norse paganism in the U.S., Gardell described himself as a follower of Norse paganism and a heathen, performing blood-sacrifices a number of times per year. In 2006, he received congratulations from a pagan association as the “first heathen professor” at Uppsala University”
Mattias Gardell has lectured for the satanist sect Dragon Rouge on race-ideological neopaganism and other occult and satanic groupings. According to its website, Dragon Rouge seeks “like Lucifer and the fallen angels, to use magical powers to free themselves from God.” Gardell also attended the dissertation celebration of Thomas Karlsson, ‘grand master’ of Dragon Rouge.
The Lundström brothers do not wish to comment on Gardell’s connections to groups with antisemitic positions. Gardell also declines to comment.
Gardell supervised Poletti Lundström’s dissertation on radical nationalism and religion. Poletti Lundström has written an anthology on Christian faith and anarchism and has also contributed to Arbetaren, owned by the socialist Syndicalists, who advocate anarchism and militant socialism. Markus Lundström has also promoted anarchism as an alternative political ideology.
Post-communist newspaper
The Lundström brothers have received support in their criticism of Lewi Pethrus from theologian Joel Halldorf, who in the post-communist newspaper Flamman also rejects the idea that God has chosen Israel, a belief held by his childhood Pentecostal church.
When Halldorf accuses Lewi Pethrus and the Pentecostal movement of antisemitism, he is said to obscure Israel’s vulnerability by ignoring the intentions of Iran and its terrorist networks, disregarding legal arguments for the existence of the Jewish state (Balfour, San Remo, League of Nations, UN), and overlooking approximately 1,000 biblical promises of land given to the Jewish people. While there may be grounds for criticism of Christians in the U.S. who speculatively over-interpret biblical eschatology and use Scripture to incorrectly justify war, Halldorf’s anti-Zionist stance is described as being shaped by a replacement theology that has historically motivated some of the worst persecutions and genocides of Jews.
