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Jews Warned Not to Wear Kipahs, Stars of David in Copenhagen
Virtual Jerusalem ^ | 12/12/2012

Posted on 12/12/2012 2:23:55 PM PST by Former Fetus

Israeli and Jewish officials in Denmark on Wednesday warned Jews to avoid openly wearing religious symbols and dress when moving about Copenhagen amid rising anti-Israeli sentiments.

"We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their skull caps until they enter the building and not to wear them in the street, irrespective of whether the areas they are visiting are seen as being safe," Israel's ambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon, told AFP.

Avnon added that visitors were also advised not to "speak Hebrew loudly" or demonstrably wear Star of David jewelry, the news agency reported.

Denmark's national Jewish Religious Community organization has also advised its members, and those at the private Jewish school in Copenhagen, to exercise caution.

Caroline Jewish School headmaster Jan Hansen told daily Jyllands-Posten: "It is not something that we do officially, but if the issue comes up we would say (to our pupils) they should think twice before walking into certain areas of Copenhagen with a skull cap or Star of David."

The warnings come a few weeks after an attack on the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, during which anti-Israel protesters gathered outside, throwing fireworks and spraying the embassy entrance wall with graffiti saying ""childkillers".

No one was injured during the incident and one person has since been charged in the attack.

Avnon said that after the attack, a lower-ranking officer from Denmark's foreign ministry had called the embassy offering to pay for some of the damage to the building, but that otherwise official Denmark had not reacted to the incident, AFP reported.

According to figures from the Jewish Belief Centre, the organization has received 37 reports of anti-Jewish incidents this year, predominantly in the heavily immigrant Noerrebro neighborhood and around the Jewish synagogue in central Copenhagen.

Denmark's Jewish community is estimated at between 6,000 and 8,000 people.

In September, a Jewish rabbinical college in Germany similarly warned its students against wearing kippot in public, after Rabbi Daniel Alter was attacked by four Arab youths in Berlin.

During WWII, the Danes evacuated the Danish Jews to Sweden in a heroic night sea rescue. The Danish king said that he would wear the yellow star demanded of Jews by the Nazis.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; danishantisemitism; denmark; denmarkvsjews; eu4newholocaust; europeanantisemitism; jews
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During WWII, the Danes evacuated the Danish Jews to Sweden in a heroic night sea rescue. The Danish king said that he would wear the yellow star demanded of Jews by the Nazis.

It wasn't only the king, all Danes wore the yellow star to prevent the Nazis from identifying the Jews. That was 69 years ago. Today it is not safe for a Jew to wear a kipah in Copenhagen! So sad!

1 posted on 12/12/2012 2:24:03 PM PST by Former Fetus
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To: Former Fetus

Europe is lost.


2 posted on 12/12/2012 2:31:18 PM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Former Fetus

Is it Islamophobic to ask just who these “anti-Israeli demonstrators” might be? Juat ordinary Danes, no doubt.


3 posted on 12/12/2012 2:31:29 PM PST by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: Former Fetus
How things change. Denmark is now more or less officially anti-Jewish. Pathetic.

How long will Danish Jews wait to pack up and emigrate to friendlier climes?

4 posted on 12/12/2012 2:32:44 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Former Fetus

The Nordic cultures countries are self destructing and going extinct. There are more practicing Muslims than Christians and the native birth rate has plummeted.


5 posted on 12/12/2012 2:33:52 PM PST by allendale
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To: Former Fetus
"certain areas of Copenhagen .... predominantly in the heavily immigrant Noerrebro neighborhood"

Muslims are racist anti-Semites. Who knew?

6 posted on 12/12/2012 2:34:51 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (BOHICA eGOP!)
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To: MeganC

All those years fighting the Crusades when all the muslims had to do is wait for the commie libs to get into power and legally migrate into Europe and take over.


7 posted on 12/12/2012 2:36:21 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Culture

Nørrebro is also known for its poly-cultural society, mostly from Middle-Eastern background

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B8rrebro


8 posted on 12/12/2012 2:36:40 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (BOHICA eGOP!)
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To: Hugin

If you guessed “The Amish”, you’d be wrong:

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/07/denmark-more-on-muslim-antisemitism.html


9 posted on 12/12/2012 2:41:06 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (BOHICA eGOP!)
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To: Former Fetus

The world is a F-upped place.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 2:45:33 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MeganC

How a great people (yes, those who helped King Christian X in World War II) how a great nation like Denmark can sink so low down into the cesspool of Hell...... ? What a crying shame!


11 posted on 12/12/2012 2:45:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity (--)
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To: Former Fetus
Come on Europe, make up your mind... Wear the star, now don't wear the star... soon to be wear the star. Again.


12 posted on 12/12/2012 2:46:42 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Former Fetus

Nuke Mecca and Medina now.


13 posted on 12/12/2012 2:58:10 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: Former Fetus

We’re not allowed to wear them on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.


14 posted on 12/12/2012 3:06:48 PM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: Former Fetus

The article was very careful not to say who is responsible. The nearest the article comes to that is when it says “heavily immigrant Noerrebro neighborhood “
They deliberately and intentionally suppressed the word that we all know.
This is deliberate and intentional. The media like what’s happening.


15 posted on 12/12/2012 3:20:38 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: Former Fetus
We're not at the point of being forced to wear the star of David or a cross, yet.

But we are at the stage where mainstream media organs are happy to do pre-genocidal hatred stoking.

Turkey: Armenians.

USSR: Kulaks.

Germany: Jews.

China: "Landlords."

And that was just a few from one century. It's an old playbook, often used by socialists on their drive to final totalitarian power. Find a scapegoat, use him to whip up popular anger (for problems actually caused by socialist policies), wipe them out in a "final solution."

We can see this one coming from a mile away.

I'd hate to be a Jew in Europe. Or a Christian, in a decade.

Visit the great cathedrals of Europe now, before they become mosques.

How pathetic and sad, to see Western Civ wiped away by the barbarian hordes, brought in by elite Quisling traitors, in order to destroy a high mark in human advancement.


16 posted on 12/12/2012 3:21:20 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Former Fetus
אני מלין
17 posted on 12/12/2012 3:27:32 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Former Fetus

Ahhhh, another example of the “tolerant” “Religion of Peace.” (dripping in sarcasm.)How long is it going to take for the Western world to realize that the most intolerant religious group on this planet is Muslim.


18 posted on 12/12/2012 3:32:25 PM PST by johnd201 (johnd201)
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To: Former Fetus

So where do Jews go to be safe? The bearded savages kill them even in Israel (while the world turns its back)


19 posted on 12/12/2012 3:39:19 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: hinckley buzzard

I think the question should be ‘When will the Norwegian Jews stand up and draw a line in the sand, and fight to keep what is theirs?’


20 posted on 12/12/2012 3:43:27 PM PST by Fedupwithit (You gave him what he wanted. I gave him what he needed.)
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