Posted on 02/22/2010 12:49:02 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes
Sweden's reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is being threatened by a steep rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the city of Malmo.
By Nick Meo in Malmo, Sweden
Published: 7:30AM GMT 21 Feb 2010
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland - until last year.
In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and "Hitler" was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.
"I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway," Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.
"This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now."
Malmo's Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country's Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.
Mr Reepalu, who is blamed for lax policing, is at the centre of a growing controversy for saying that what the Jews perceive as naked anti-Semitism is in fact just a sad, but understandable consequence of Israeli policy in the Middle East.
While his views are far from unusual on the European liberal-left, which is often accused of a pro-Palestinian bias, his Jewish critics say they encourage young Muslim hotheads to abuse and harass them.
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When you invite cannibals into yer house, don’t act surprised when Grandma goes missing, and they’re celebrating with a feast.
Depressing to see the same cowardly behaviour yet again...
Biggest mistake is to leave. Either fight or die trying.
Neo-Nazis are small and controllable.
Muslims and ant-Israels leftists are not, at least in bleeding-heart Euroland.
True to bad the mexicans didn’t do it now look what their country has turned into.
The islamic "culture" is so sick that when they have no one else available they blow each other up.
Mr Reepalu needs to wake up and smell the falafel. First it's the Jews, but next it'll be his daughter for dressing provocatively. And that has nothing to do with Isreali policy in the Middle East!
I’ve never seen an article that says “Christians leaving x due to anti-Christian(we don’t have a cool buzz word for anti-Christian hate) fervor...yet around the World, Christians are persecuted far more heavily than Jews are. There are precious few small, ignored, powerless, isolated, poor Jewish enclaves. There are literally thousands of Christian ones.
If you read only the leftist news, you’d think that Jews in Sweden are worse off than Christians in Indonesia...lol.
Funny, that.
Welcome to Sweden.
Look what the muzzies have done to this city:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBpVAj4ILM
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Welcome to Sweden.
Look what the muzzies have done to this city:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBpVAj4ILM
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
ML/NJ
“Biggest mistake is to leave. Either fight or die trying.”
an seventy year old grandmother? seriously? What would you have her do, firebomb the local mosque?
Call the mossad team that has just gotten back from Dubai.
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