The Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats has received criticism for its cooperation with various alleged Islamist and anti-Zionist groups and people.
The invitation led to strong criticism from the chairman of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism (SKMA), who called Atzmon a "notorious anti-Semite".
[4] In a reply, Ulf Carmesund of the Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats countered that SKMA is on a dangerous path, devaluing the whole concept of antisemitism, when they attempt to apply the term to antizionism.
In this collaboration, it had been agreed that activists in SMR should be included in social democratic electoral lists for the Swedish parliament, the county council and municipalastes.
According to the newspaper Dagen, one of the main reasons was that the organization "turns a blind eye to antisemitic occurrences" (Swedish: "ser mellan fingrarna på antisemitiska företeelser".).