The Swedish government has been urged to rethink its decision to double its aid to the Palestine Authority (PA).

The demand comes amid renewed concern that Swedish financial assistance may be used to support incitement to terror.

Swedish Christian Democrat MP Mikael Oscarsson declared, "We must check where the funding that we send to the PA is going. We cannot support incitement to terror."

His comments come after the findings of a study on "hate incitement and terror promotion" by PA and Fatah were presented to opposition MPs in Sweden.

The study was conducted by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), whose director Itamar Marcus is critical of Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström over her recent call for an investigation of Israel's "extrajudicial killings of Palestinians".

Critics say that the Minister's remarks could be taken as being Swedish support for continued Palestinian violence against Israelis, disguised as self-defense.

Oscarsson had invited Marcus to the Swedish Parliament to inform Swedish MPs about the content of Palestinian messaging and its impact on terror and peace. PMW’s study has examined the PA through its media and school books.

The MP suggested that because of Sweden's role as a major donor to the PA, it is also Sweden's obligation to question the organisation's policies and conduct in light of PMW's "important information".

He said, "The Swedish government has decided to double its aid to Palestine after the country’s recognition of a ‘Palestinian state’, but we cannot just continue to give money without taking this hate propaganda into account."

He added, "The purpose of the meeting with Marcus was for the MPs to receive important information. Sweden is a large contributor to Palestine and therefore we must also present counterclaims [to the PA]."

In his presentation, Marcus highlighted a statement from last October on the PA's official television channel by Jibril Rajoub, president of both the Palestinian Football Federation and the Olympic Committee, as well as Deputy Party Secretary of Fatah, which controls the West Bank.

In the piece, Rajoub congratulates those who have carried out knife attacks against Israelis, praising them as Martyrs, ‘'assets to the entire Palestinian people,’' and even provides an explanation for the attacks.

In an interview with Swedish daily Världen Idag, Marcus said, "Instead of criticizing Israel for how to deal with the recent stabbing spree, Sweden should pay attention to the constant encouragement of terror from the Palestinian side."

Marcus points out in the interview that many of the attacks against Israelis have been committed by teenagers, and sees a clear link to the enemy image of Israel and the Jews which, he says, for a long time has been allowed to spread through Palestinian children's television.

"The conclusion we must draw from recent months, when so many Palestinian teenagers have committed murder or attempted to commit murder, that [donor] money should not go to media that teach children to say that Jews are pigs and that Israel should be destroyed," he says.

Oscarsson, a centre right MP, told the paper, "Now the acts of violence have intensified and [they] also use Wallström's statements as a kind of support. So it is very important that the [Swedish] government breaks with this image and shows that it is possible to consider this kind of information by PMW.

"If you look at Northern Ireland, it was only when they dealt with the hate propaganda in the textbooks that a real change towards peace took place."

He went on, "We will call Wallström to the plenum and force her to answer to the evidence of [Palestinian] incitement."