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by Nima Gholam Ali Pour • August
10, 2018 at 5:00 am
- The municipality of
Malmö uses taxpayers' money to support "Group 194,"
an organization that posts anti-Semitic images on its Facebook
page -- such as a defamatory cartoon portraying a Jew drinking
blood and eating a child.
- In Sweden, imported
Middle Eastern anti-Semitism is funded by taxpayer money, so
when scandals occur, they are often addressed by the same
people who have participated in spreading its message.
- No effective actions
are currently being taken against the spread of anti-Semitism
in Sweden.
- Just as European
anti-Semitism was defeated by rejecting and condemning the
ideology after World War II and isolating its proponents, so
must Sweden's "new" anti-Semitism be defeated by
isolating its advocates and marginalizing all organizations
spreading its ideas. This means that all direct and indirect
government funding of these organizations has to end. As long
as this does not happen, Jews in Sweden will continue living
in fear and insecurity.
The
synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden was firebombed on December 9, 2017.
(Image source: Lintoncat/Wikimedia Commons)
As major Swedish cities such as Malmö have become
known as places where Swedish Jews are threatened, anti-Semitism in
Sweden has attracted international attention. Does Sweden, however,
really deserve this bad reputation or is there some
misunderstanding?
In December 2017, when US President Donald J. Trump
recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, demonstrations broke
out in Malmö. Protesters, often people with an Arab background,
shouted, "We want our freedom back and we're going to shoot
the Jews", and a chapel at the Jewish cemetery was attacked
with firebombs. In Gothenburg, the city's synagogue was also
attacked with firebombs.
The local newspaper in Malmö, Kvällsposten,
described how the Jewish congregation in Malmö -- not Israelis;
Swedish Jews -- tries to protect itself:
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