André Sebastian Swanström

André Swanström is Associate Professor of Church History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He has studied SS volunteers, antisemitism, and the history of Finnish Jews. Swanström’s findings led to a national enquiry and debate concerning the involvement of Finnish SS men in the Holocaust. His research has been featured in Der Spiegel and Israel Hayom, and his findings have been published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Swanström’s focus is on antisemitism both in history and in the contemporary world. According to Swanström’s research, the leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has been propagating an anti-Israel bias to such an extent that 14 % of the editorials published between 1990 and 2023 with Israel as main topic fulfill the criteria of antisemitism.