Friday, April 28, 2006

Sweden Was Anti-Semitic Long Before the Muslims Arrived

 
The Great Synagogue of StockholmIt’s been known for some time that Jews in Sweden are at risk, but the situation is deteriorating.

Currently, Jewish congregations spend twenty-five percent of their budget on security because the police do not act. The synagogue in Stockholm has been told to remove its protective concrete barriers.

Anti-Semitic essays or public remarks are permitted because of the “conflict” with Palestine. However, the opposite does not hold true: speaking out against terrorists is a hate crime.

Sweden has withdrawn from the military exercises in Sardinia because Israel is one of the participants.

Hamas leaders have been given visas to enter Sweden.The Jerusalem Post
reports here:

Swedish Ambassador to Israel, Robert Rydberg, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Thursday to explain his government’s decision to give visas to Hamas members to enter Sweden.

Director-General of the Foreign Ministry Ron Prossor said that Stockholm’s decision effectively legitimizes terrorism, and that one cannot make the distinction between a terrorist organization and its members, Israel Radio reported.

The Local, “Sweden’s newspaper in English,” published reports of growing anti-Semitism in the country:

The results, which appeared in Dagens Nyheter, showed that 26% believe that there is a ‘Jewish influence’ over the world’s economy, and 15% consider that influence to be ‘too great’. It also emerged that 14% believe that Jews use the Holocaust for political or economic ends.

One out of four of those questioned said they were negative towards the idea of a Jewish prime minister.

“What has long been a problem is the fact that anti-Semitism has in many ways been denied or trivialised, or that the problem has been seen as peculiar to marginal right wing groups,” said historian Henrik Bachner…

This isn’t new. For a while now, Jews have been hiding their identity to avoid being attacked in public. In 2004, The Stockholm Spectator blog, Stambord, (run by three Irishmen — what is that about?) noted that a few Swedish Jews had joined the IDF in Israel, feeling they were safer there than in Sweden.

As you can see from the previous post, Sweden’s Muslims grow more aggressive by the day. However, what we are less aware of – what has been kept under wraps for the last sixty years – is Sweden’s history of overt anti-Jewish laws:

For ten years up until the end of the Second World War, Swedish priests applied Nazi race rules to marriage.

Swedes who wanted to marry Germans were forced to prove that they were not Jewish. And ‘racially impure’ marriages could be annulled by Swedish courts, according to evidence presented by the Swedish Research Council on Tuesday.

Since 2001, two research programmes have explored various aspects of “Swedish fear, horror and fascination, but also kinship within Swedish science, culture and church life with Nazism and Nazi Germany”.

[…]

Any Swede who wanted to marry an Arian German was forced to sign an affirmation stating that none of the German’s grandparents were Jewish.

According to Lund University’s Professor Anders Jarlert, who led the research, Sweden’s application of these laws lacked historical and democratic legitimacy. It was also alien to the Swedish sense of justice, said Jarlert.

The evidence uncovered by Professor Jarlert shows that Sweden was not merely paying lip service to its powerful neighbour. The Swedish courts were complicit too, annulling a number of marriages and declaring the children born within them as illegitimate.

Stig Ekman, a professor of history with a special interest in Nazism, told DN that Sweden’s culture of secrecy is one reason why the details of the priests’ and courts’ lack of resistance to Nazi influence is only emerging now, 60 years later.

As this study proves, the anti-Semitism in Sweden was well in place before any Muslim set foot there.

As Maxed Out Mama said in a comment at Shrinkwrapped recently:

I think you are right about the Jews getting out of Europe. I hate it, but I think it’s time for them to go. I’d love to see the US have an official open immigration policy for any Jew of European extraction.

We would do well to start with Sweden, though France is surely as dangerous.

9 comments:

X said...

Well, to balance things out, Sweden sold Israel a bunch of surplus P51-D mustangs s in 1957, contravening an arms embargo, and was cooperating with Israel on all kinds of technology and the like until very recently.

On the other hand anti-semetism is still rife. My wife's aunt, whilst otherwise quite sane and cool, believes that jews run the world. I'm sure it would be less prevelant if they weren't being so oppressed by their social "democrat" government all the time. Iv'e always found that people under oppressive governments or oppressive situations look for scapegoats, and it's usually the jews...

Handsome Hu said...

woah is that first link malicious? - had hella pop ups come at me and avast killed several scripts - be warned...

guess its my bad for clicking - jihadi script kiddies l0se all internets

al fin said...

Excuse me, but saying that Sweden was anti-semitic even before the muslims swarmed in, is like saying the house was warm, even before it burned down.

There's a qualitative difference there, not just a quantitative one.

SC&A said...

I'm beginning to belive that Raoul Wallenberg is more important to the Swedes than he is to the Jews.

Of course, they aren't all that excited to recall Wallenbergs Jewish roots.

In any event, perhaps what is going on in Sweden is just karma.

You get what you give.

pst314 said...

When a Swede tells you about how morally superior Sweden is, you are permitted to mentally spit on him.

X said...

I'd be inclined to say it's the left that's causing it. It seems that leftists are quicker to blame the jews.

Also lets not start spitting on people, mentally or otherwise. Sweden is not nazi germany; its people are living in fear, its leaders are denying the problem and lashing out at the easy target. They need our help, not our disgust.

Fredrik Lindholm said...

Good and regretably nessecary post.

"As to Sweden, was it a coincidence that the term 'Stockholm Syndrome' originated there."

Yes. Given the right circumstances it could as well be called "The Tel Aviv Syndrome" or "The Padua Syndrome". Psychologists has known the mechanisms of fraternisation long before 1973. Check out Wikipedia

Fredrik Lindholm said...

True, true, true. But before you all get too "freedom fries", remember that the Norrmalmstorg robbery was an exceptional crime that took place in 1973. No-one will solve any problems by making far-fetched comparisions with 33 year old crimes.

Fredrik Lindholm said...

You can be both jewish and swedish. In short: A swedish jew.