Friday, January 29, 2010
Don't look to the mayor for any serious help, though. Bad times in Eurabia:
Threats and harassment are becoming increasingly commonplace for Jewish residents in Malmö in southern Sweden, leading many Jews to leave the city out of fear for their safety.
"Threats against Jews have increased steadily in Malmö in recent years and many young Jewish families are choosing to leave the city," Fredrik Sieradzki of the Jewish Community of Malmö (Judiska Församlingen i Malmö) told The Local.
"Many feel that the community and local politicians have shown a lack of understanding for how the city's Jewish residents have been marginalized."
Last year there were 79 crimes against Jewish residents reported to the police in Malmö, roughly double the number reported in 2008, according to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper.
"That probably doesn't tell the whole story because not everyone chose to make a report. Perhaps they fear they will add to an already infected situation," Susanne Gosenius, a hate crimes coordinator with the Skåne police, told the newspaper, which has published series of articles about the growing anti-Semitism in Malmö.
In addition, Jewish cemeteries and synagogues have repeatedly been defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, and a chapel at another Jewish burial site in Malmö was firebombed in January of last year.
There are currently an estimated 3,000 Jews living in the south of Sweden, with most residing in Malmö, Helsingborg, and Lund.
About 700 currently belong to the Jewish Community of Malmö, but the group's membership rolls have been dropping steadily in recent years.
"It's sort of a downward spiral," Sieradzki told The Local...[More.]
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Malmo will be Sweden's Gaza Strip. Couldnt happen to a nicer group of naive moral finger waggers.
The entire country of Sweden will be one of the first in Europe to fall. Between 2025 and 2035 Sweden will become majority Muslim. The Jews may be leaving first but the native Swedes won't be far behind. They've lost their country with their myopic ideas of tolerance and are too blind to see it while they berate Israel and mistreat the Jews for not doing the same thing. When Sweden is gone, unlike Israel, it will be gone for good, one more dead country relegated to history.
Sharia Compliant Volvos and Saabs? Ikea Akbar!
They're anti-Zionists, but with all these attacks, they're demonstrating that the Jews really do need Israel.