The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), Dr. Moshe Kantor, warned that the Swedish Jewish community is in grave danger after a series of anti-Semitic attacks, most notably an attack on two Jewish women in Malmo earlier in the week.
�The situation is intolerable for Jews in Malmo and every week we hear of another attack,� Kantor said. �The community is slowly being pushed out; it is dying of a �thousand cuts�. Each attack should be seen and dealt with as a part of a greater pattern to make Jewish life unsustainable in Sweden.�
�The attacks against Jews should be seen in their entirety and there is a concerted attempt to rid certain areas on Sweden, if not the whole country, of Jews.�
Earlier in the week, large swastikas were twice scrawled on several doors belonging to two separate Jewish homes in Malmo, according to a report in Sydsvenskan, a local daily. One of the homes was broken into, and a computer and Judaica were stolen. The homeowners reportedly called police four times during the weekend as the assailants continued to return. This follows an attack on a synagogue in Malmo, a rabbi viciously attacked in the street and several assaults carried out against the Jewish community in the last couple of months.
�The EJC will request a meeting with the Prime Minister of Sweden to discuss the issue and the need for greater policing, enforcement of anti-racism laws and a long-term strategy for dealing with the attacks on the Jewish community because we are reaching a tipping point for the Jews in Sweden,” Kantor said.
Lena Posner-Korosi, President of the Swedish Council of Jewish Communities and EJC executive member said that �breaking into Jewish homes and deliberately stealing items of great personal and emotional value is outrageous. I urge the political leadership not only in Malmo but the Swedish government to take all measures to end the spiral of increased hatred and violence against Jews in the country.�
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Are these attacks coming for Muslim immigrants or from home-bred Swedish fascists? The difference is quite significant. There is much reason to worry if Muslim terrorists are able to act with impunity due to politically correct misfeasance – but if it is by local fascists it is less of a problem since the Sweede’s can be expected to surpress for domestic reasons (they have already annoyed most of the country with serious terror attacks directed against ethnic Sweedes).
Akuperma:
The attacks are coming from the muslim immigrants, the jews in Malm� says so themselves.
One attack outside of Malm� was from ethnic swedes, but that attack was a couple of years ago.
In the 80’s + 90’s the attacks were from swedish neo-nazis but they have seem to disappeared nowadays, both the attacks and the neo-nazis. And that’s good.
It’s about political correctness, it’s not easy to say something negative about muslims in Sweden, I’m from Sweden myself.