Yvonne Ruwaida (born 14 August 1970 in

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) is a

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origin. She was a

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of the

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from 1994 to 2006. As a member of parliament, Ruwaida together with Mariam Osman Sherifay (

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) invited two representatives of the palestinian organization

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, which at the time was categorized as a terrorist organization by the EU. The invitees were a group leader in the palestine parliament and a relative of a Hamas leader which had been killed. From 2006 until 2010, she was the leader of the Greens in the

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, where they were part of the opposition. Since then, she is vice-convener of the Green Party's central directorate. According to terror scholar

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, Ruwaida is opposed to strengthening the anti-terror legislation in Sweden.

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