{"id":5788,"date":"2026-04-15T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/lewi-pethrus-anklagas-for-antisemitism\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:06:23","slug":"lewi-pethrus-accused-of-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/lewi-pethrus-accused-of-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewi Pethrus accused of antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about Thomas Poletti Lundstr\u00f6m at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University, and his brother Markus Lundstr\u00f6m, professor at Karlstad University, who is also affiliated with CEMFOR.<\/p>\n<p>CEMFOR\u2019s 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\u2014which has ties to the terrorist group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paganism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cfirst heathen professor\u201d at Uppsala University\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201clike Lucifer and the fallen angels, to use magical powers to free themselves from God.\u201d Gardell also attended the dissertation celebration of Thomas Karlsson, \u2018grand master\u2019 of Dragon Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>The Lundstr\u00f6m brothers do not wish to comment on Gardell\u2019s connections to groups with antisemitic positions. Gardell also declines to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Gardell supervised Poletti Lundstr\u00f6m\u2019s dissertation on radical nationalism and religion. Poletti Lundstr\u00f6m has written an anthology on Christian faith and anarchism and has also contributed to <i>Arbetaren<\/i>, owned by the socialist Syndicalists, who advocate anarchism and militant socialism. Markus Lundstr\u00f6m has also promoted anarchism as an alternative political ideology.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Post-communist newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lundstr\u00f6m 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.<\/p>\n<p>When Halldorf accuses Lewi Pethrus and the Pentecostal movement of antisemitism, he is said to obscure Israel\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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