This is a follow-up to my post yesterday about Sweden’s Muslim problem. The UK Telegraph is reporting that Jews who had found a home in Sweden decades ago in the wake of the European Holocaust are now leaving the country in which they once felt safe.
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland – until last year.
In 2009, a chapel serving the city’s 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and “Hitler” was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.
“I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway,” Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.
“This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now.”
Malmo’s Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country’s Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.
Mr Reepalu, who is blamed for lax policing, is at the centre of a growing controversy for saying that what the Jews perceive as naked anti-Semitism is in fact just a sad, but understandable consequence of Israeli policy in the Middle East.
Read the whole article. While the mayor may blame it all on Israel (don’t they always!), a line near the end places the blame squarely on liberal immigration policies.
For many of Malmo’s white Swedish population, meanwhile, the racial problems are bewildering after years of liberal immigration policies.
Message to America’s far left Jews and especially the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: what part of this story do you fail to understand? Do you think as you continue to resettle Muslim refugees and encourage Muslim immigration that you will escape this same fate right here as the Muslim population increases? Do you really think the magical American melting pot somehow sets us apart from Sweden, that the outcome will be different?