Sweden Protesters Try To Break Into Malmo Jewish Center

[Behind the Aegis]

Police in Malmo arrested two people who tried to break into a Jewish community building during a demonstration that featured anti-Semitic slogans.

Five people gathered outside the Jewish community center on Kamrergatan Street in Malmo’s center on March 27 and tried to force their way inside past security, the Sydsvenskan regional daily newspaper reported.

The intruders stopped at the gate, where they voiced insults against Judaism, police officer Linda Pleym told the newspaper.

The two men arrested, who are both 18, were not named in the report. Police released them shortly after questioning and local prosecutors will decide whether to charge the men with trespassing and intimidation, the newspaper reported.


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Malmo...

[King_David]

1. What's up with Malmo?

Why is it so bad there?

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I am not sure, but it has been going on for awhile.

This city seems to have a long history of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in general.

ETA: Here is an update.

[11cents]

3. For one thing, the guy who was mayor until recently ....

...told the city's Jews that if they didn't want to be threatened, they should denounce Israel.

[MosheFeingold]

4. Europe has not changed its spots

It is as anti-Semitic as it ever was. Post WWII made it politically incorrect.

On top of that, they segregated the immigrants from Muslim countries and turned them into an underclass, replete with the usual problems of any given underclass.

It smells a lot like 1930s to me -- crappy economy world-wide, a bit of a power vacuum left from a retreating empire (USA now, vs. England then), Russia strongmen being Russian strongmen.

Jews, per usual, get to be the canaries in the coal mine.

[Mosby]

5. 20% of the cily pop. is Muslim

And half the population is under 35.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malm%C3%B6

In 2010, the international media reported on increasing levels of anti-Semitic hate-crime in Malmö. The reports cited desecrations, the burning of a chapel and worshippers being taunted with 'Hitler' chants. In 2009 the Malmö police received reports of 79 anti-Semitic incidents, double the number of the previous year (2008).[59] For example, on January 13, 2009 Molotov cocktails were thrown inside and outside the funeral chapel at the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Malmö, as what seems as an anti-Semitic act. It was the third time the chapel has been attacked in the few weeks before this incident.[60] On September 28, 2012, an explosion occurred at Malmö Jewish community building, again as what seems to be an anti-Semitic act.[61] Fredrik Sieradzki, spokesman for the Malmö Jewish community, estimated that the already small Jewish population is shrinking by 5% a year. “Malmö is a place to move away from,” he said, citing anti-Semitism as the primary reason.[62]

In an article published in The Forward in October 2010, Judith Popinski, and 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, stated that she is no longer invited to schools that have a large Muslim presence to tell her story of surviving the Holocaust. Popinski, who found refuge in Malmö in 1945, stated that, until recently, she told her story in Malmö schools as part of their Holocaust studies program, but that now, many schools no longer ask Holocaust survivors to tell their stories, because Muslim students treat them with such disrespect, either ignoring the speakers or walking out of the class. She further stated that "Malmö reminds me of the anti-Semitism I felt as a child in Poland before the war. “I am not safe as a Jew in Sweden anymore.”