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Kent Ekeroth
Kent Alexander Ekeroth (born 11 September 1981) is a Swedish politician and economist, who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018.
Ekeroth served as the SD legal policy spokesman until 2012 and was the party's international secretary from 2007 to 2017. He stepped down from the Riksdag ahead of the 2018 Swedish general election at the request of the party's leadership and announced his intention to move to Hungary. However, he made a small return to politics and since 2022 has been a regional councilor in Dalarna for the Sweden Democrats.
Ekeroth has been involved with operating the news website Samhällsnytt and its predecessors since the beginning of his parliamentary term.
Ekeroth was born in Malmö to a family of Kazakhstani-Jewish descent. His mother Janina Kazarina was originally from Kazakhstan in Central Asia (which was then part of the Soviet Union), who arrived as a refugee from Poland to Sweden in the 1970s, together with her mother, Ekeroth's grandmother and sisters. He has a twin brother Ted Ekeroth who is also active in the Sweden Democrats and was a former member of Lund City Council. In a 2012 interview, Ekeroth said that he identified as culturally Jewish with an atheistic life stance.
In a National Swedish Radio interview conducted in 2012, Ekeroth traced the origins of his political views to his time at Östergårds School in Halmstad in an immigrant-dominated class. He said that his school saw conflicts between pupils if different foreign backgrounds and that he was bullied by "groups of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East" and connected his experience to the overall immigration problems. Journalist Gellert Tamas argued that a majority of students at the Halmstad school were Swedish or had their background in Eastern Europe. Other students from his time at Östergårds have said in interviews that Ekeroth was "a quiet, shy kid" and claim he was subjected to antisemitic bullying by his class and "perhaps the entire school".
After graduating from high school, Ekeroth studied a bachelor's degree economics at Lund University.
After graduating, Ekeroth began working at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He wad fired from an internship at the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel in October 2006 after the embassy had found out about his involvement with the Sweden Democrats. The embassy's actions were later criticised by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, who ruled that the firing was illegal and a breach of the Swedish constitutional laws. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, who are responsible for all Swedish embassies abroad, also had to pay damages to Ekeroth.
Ekeroth joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006. He stood for the party during the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden and received the most personal votes out of all the candidates on the SD's list but was not elected. From 2007 to 2017, he was the party's secretary for international affairs. He participated in an international counter-jihad conference in 2009, and was "deeply involved" in the counter-jihad movement along with his twin brother, Ted Ekeroth, a local politician for the Sweden Democrats in the Lund Municipality. The two brothers were instrumental in introducing the party to the international counter-jihad movement, after Ted participated in the two inaugural official counter-jihad conferences in 2007, in Copenhagen and in Brussels. In 2011, Ekeroth and the Sweden Democrats said he was no longer involved with the counter-jihad movement.
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Kent Ekeroth
Kent Alexander Ekeroth (born 11 September 1981) is a Swedish politician and economist, who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018.
Ekeroth served as the SD legal policy spokesman until 2012 and was the party's international secretary from 2007 to 2017. He stepped down from the Riksdag ahead of the 2018 Swedish general election at the request of the party's leadership and announced his intention to move to Hungary. However, he made a small return to politics and since 2022 has been a regional councilor in Dalarna for the Sweden Democrats.
Ekeroth has been involved with operating the news website Samhällsnytt and its predecessors since the beginning of his parliamentary term.
Ekeroth was born in Malmö to a family of Kazakhstani-Jewish descent. His mother Janina Kazarina was originally from Kazakhstan in Central Asia (which was then part of the Soviet Union), who arrived as a refugee from Poland to Sweden in the 1970s, together with her mother, Ekeroth's grandmother and sisters. He has a twin brother Ted Ekeroth who is also active in the Sweden Democrats and was a former member of Lund City Council. In a 2012 interview, Ekeroth said that he identified as culturally Jewish with an atheistic life stance.
In a National Swedish Radio interview conducted in 2012, Ekeroth traced the origins of his political views to his time at Östergårds School in Halmstad in an immigrant-dominated class. He said that his school saw conflicts between pupils if different foreign backgrounds and that he was bullied by "groups of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East" and connected his experience to the overall immigration problems. Journalist Gellert Tamas argued that a majority of students at the Halmstad school were Swedish or had their background in Eastern Europe. Other students from his time at Östergårds have said in interviews that Ekeroth was "a quiet, shy kid" and claim he was subjected to antisemitic bullying by his class and "perhaps the entire school".
After graduating from high school, Ekeroth studied a bachelor's degree economics at Lund University.
After graduating, Ekeroth began working at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He wad fired from an internship at the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel in October 2006 after the embassy had found out about his involvement with the Sweden Democrats. The embassy's actions were later criticised by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, who ruled that the firing was illegal and a breach of the Swedish constitutional laws. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, who are responsible for all Swedish embassies abroad, also had to pay damages to Ekeroth.
Ekeroth joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006. He stood for the party during the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden and received the most personal votes out of all the candidates on the SD's list but was not elected. From 2007 to 2017, he was the party's secretary for international affairs. He participated in an international counter-jihad conference in 2009, and was "deeply involved" in the counter-jihad movement along with his twin brother, Ted Ekeroth, a local politician for the Sweden Democrats in the Lund Municipality. The two brothers were instrumental in introducing the party to the international counter-jihad movement, after Ted participated in the two inaugural official counter-jihad conferences in 2007, in Copenhagen and in Brussels. In 2011, Ekeroth and the Sweden Democrats said he was no longer involved with the counter-jihad movement.
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