Iceland – Anti-Semitism, Hamas Support Growing in Iceland

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     A sign in a bicycle shop in Reykjavik, Iceland, announcing that Jews are not welcome. And no doubt the Jews are also to blame for the collapse of the country’s financial system.Iceland – Anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head in the capital of the island nation of Iceland, where the door of a bicycle shop displays a sign baldly stating “Judar Ekki Velkomnir” — “Jews Not Welcome Here.”

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    The word used on the sign, “Judar,” carries a derogatory connotation in the Icelandic language, according to the Icelandic native that brought the sign to the attention of the Jewish Agency for Israel. “Gydingur” is the correct neutral word for Jew, according to Vilhjalmur Orn Vilhjalmsson, who emailed information about the shop and its owner to a friend in Israel.

    Vilhjalmsson, who has written about the Jews in Iceland for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)’s Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, noted in a past article that no Jewish presence existed on the island prior to the 1930s.

    An article about the anti-Semitic sign and shop owner in Reykjavik appeared Thursday on Iceland’s DV.is news website, which also featured a photo of the owner in his shop.

    An Aryan-looking man with light hair, the shop owner appears to be in his 60’s, possibly older, of medium build. The words “Hamas” and the Icelandic word for “solidarity” were mentioned in the caption below the photograph.

    Also included in the article was information about the shop’s website, which includes an English-language page with information for tourists who wish to rent bikes. No warning about Jews being unwelcome is posted on the English page of the shop’s website.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Antisemitism without Jews, has a Jew ever lived there?

    Bugsy Siegel
    Bugsy Siegel
    15 years ago

    Funny, and there hardly are any Jews in Iceland. (Some Sephardim traded there a few hundred years ago. Mostly imports. Tobacco was mainly imported.)

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I dont see any reason why Jews still have to live all other the world! Why dont they all come to America, to live a safe peacfull life!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Well their government just collapsed so this is actually right on time.

    seer
    seer
    15 years ago

    the point being made ; media attention to what happened in gaza and the anti-israel attitudeof not being able to defend itself.eisav sonei l’yaakov, iceland, france you name the country all anti semetic. the goyim cannot tolerate a israrli victory. if you call it so. in the meanbtime they are sending rockets over askelon and other areas of the south of israel and they want israel to do nothing.the show is not over!

    Ah!
    Ah!
    15 years ago

    Who cares? Maybe they think some good ol’ jew hating will warm them up?. Let those icelanders freeze in their frozen wasteland.Last i checked it was a record high of 19 degrees F .Ha!

    zev
    zev
    15 years ago

    Most of these People wouldn’t know a Jew if it slapped them in the face,its just become a catch all term of abuse and blame for insecure people who know nothing about Jews.

    Melvin
    Melvin
    15 years ago

    Well I guess the first lady will have to order he bicycle online

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This news is to me most worrisome. No Jewish communities and no significant Jewish life but a striving antisemitism. This is frightning and dangerous

    =)
    =)
    15 years ago

    Besides producing anchovies they hate Jews, good grief!!1

    egghead
    egghead
    15 years ago

    Can anyone get this guys address, phone number, so we can give him a call just like we did to that guy in new zeland

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    for those uniformed, the president of iceland has a wife who happens to be Israeli. Mossayeff is her name.interesting.

    Stand Up
    Stand Up
    15 years ago

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I won’t be a pacified good little Jew, the times are over for that. It’s a good thing I don’t live there, because I swear I would throw a rock right through that smug little window. Violence is not always the answer, but places like this deserve to be ruined.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    anyone have the phone number of the store

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    The government of Iceland ripped off billions of Jewish British Pounds Sterling how pathertic

    Eli
    Eli
    15 years ago

    I’m glad their economy is in the ground, let these bigots suffer and hunger…….

    Daniel H.
    Daniel H.
    15 years ago

    What’s new??

    Another retarded arien inbred anti-semite who has been eating his own vomit!

    mottel
    mottel
    15 years ago

    well the jewish first lady is just going to have get used to riding around on a flat tired bicycle then. teach her a lesson for marrying a non-jew

    Avraham Abba
    Avraham Abba
    15 years ago

    Hey Iceland, you think you are fair because you of the humanity lost when the Jews attacked Gaza, right?
    Did you have even one protest when Hamas was attacking humans with more than 7,000 rockets during the past three years? Even one?
    Not even one protest because you don’t consider the Jews as humans.
    Guess what Iceland?…as the Moslems slowly but surely influence you and eventually take you over, which of course is their real goal, it will be our turn to just sit back and watch the show.
    Bye bye Icelandson.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This incident is an evidence that anti semiticem against the Jews not the Israelis, like the blame the Jews are at fault on everything, the Israeli situation is only an excuse!

    Kop Doktar
    Kop Doktar
    15 years ago

    Sounds like it is time to open a Chabad House in Iceland.

    Bendt
    Bendt
    15 years ago

    I lived in Iceland for 7 years. There was never any intolerance then; but when people are pushed too far financeally; they will, as the Germans did in the 30´s, push back; and try to find a scabegoat. And most certainly, who will blame one self, not the Icelanders, you yourself, ran your country bankrupt. You did as you did the last time; you borrowed money to pay of loans. LIFE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT. GET A GRIP.