Gothernburg – Firebombs Hurled At Synagogue In Sweden After Protest March About Jerusalem

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    police are investigating the scene after the molotov cocktails have been thrown against the synagogue.Gothernburg – More than a dozen men hurled firebombs at a synagogue in Gothernburg in southern Sweden hours after locals marched in the city against the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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    No one was injured in the attack Saturday night, which ended without injury, the online edition of the Expressen daily reported.

    Several people were inside the building during the attack and they went down to the basement floor for safety until police arrived after the culprits had already left, Laila Takolander, a member of the local Jewish community, told the daily.

    Hours before the attack, which police are investigating, several hundred people marched through the city’s center in protest of President Donald Trump’s declaration on Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, George Braun, the head of the community, told JTA. Police do not hace suspects in custody.

    The Expressen report did not say whether the building targeted sustatined any serious damage.

    At other protest rallies about Jerusalem in Sweden, Austria and France participants chanted, respectively, in Arabic about shooting Jews, an ancient massacre of Jews and freedom for Palestinian terrorists.
     Protesters march from Humlegarden Park to US Embassy during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in Stockholm, Sweden on December 9, 2017. (Photo by Atila Altuntas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    The Swedish rally where chants about shooting Jews were heard happened on Friday night in the southern city of Malmo, Sveriges Radio reported.

    “We have announced the intifada from Malmö. We want our freedom back, and we will shoot the Jews,” some of in the rally of 200 demonstrators shouted, according to the public radio station. Intifada is the Arabic-language word for a violent uprising.

    Earlier that day in Vienna, hundreds of participants in rally shouted in Arabic, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning.” The cry relates to an event in the seventh century when Muslims massacred and expelled Jews from the town of Khaybar, located in modern-day Saudi Arabia.

    And in France, around 400 people gathered at Republique square Saturday, where they cheered when an organizers, wearing a shirt that promotes a boycott of Israel, said: “This demonstration is also about freedom for Hassan Hamouri, Marwan Barghouti and all the Palestinian prisoner.” The crowd shouted back: “Freedom to the Palestinian prisoners.”

    Barghouti was sentenced by an Israeli court in 2004 to multiple life sentences for planning dozens of deadly terrorist attacks. Hamouri is a terrorist for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group who was arrested by Israel in 2005 and imprisoned following his conviction of planning to assassinate the late Israeli rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

    Hamouri, who is a French citizen, was released in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, whom Hamas abducted in 2006. But he was arrested again, allegedly for violating the terms of his release by continuing to plan terrorist activities.

    The speaker at the Paris rally also urged listeners to show their “solidarity and resistance.” They chanted “Natanyahu war criminal” and called for the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during his visit Sunday to France and Brussels, where he is scheduled to meet with several leaders of EU countries.

    A smaller protest rally than the one held on Republique took place in the eastern city of Lyon Saturday.

    Separately, Dutch police released from custody a 29-year-old Palestinian who on Thursday smashed the windows of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam’s south while waving a Palestinian flag, the De Telegraaf daily reported. He will be tried on Dec. 20 for vandalism and theft, because he took out of the restaurant an Israeli flag before two police officers arrested him. The report did not whether he would also be tried for a hate crime.


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    MrSmith
    MrSmith
    6 years ago

    Kill all Muslims Kill all Muslims, shoot all Muslim burn all Muslims Drown all Muslims

    6 years ago

    Well what do you know violent muslims in free democratic countries like Europe. Yet we have naive people who argue no this can’t happen in NYC. Well why not?
    It’s irrelevant why these muslims are carrying on. Lets face it zionsits are here to stay and muslims are seeking our blood. You maybe correct that the world is better without zionism but they are here already and the muslims beasts are running loose.
    Just read a story about R Hutner ZT”L when in Chevron yeshiva. He and his chavrusa felt bad for an arab local boy and use to give him money to polish their shoes. Well in 1929 that nice young lad murdered R Hutner’s chavrusa. Moral of the story muslims want us dead even if they appear nice and sweet and even if we are kind to them.

    May muslims who support any form of violence be smitten with Cancer and ALS

    6 years ago

    Thats gonna burn us even more u stupid!

    6 years ago

    At one time, Sweden was very hospitable to Jews. In 1943, on Erev Rosh Hashanah, when nearly the entire Jewish population of Denmark was saved from the Nazis, they were taken to Malmo, Sweden, by boats, where they stayed until the war ended. Also, many survivors of the Holocaust were brought to Sweden for medical treatment, after the war. There were also many volunteers from the Scandinavian countries who used to volunteer on kibbutzim in Israel. Unfortunately, with the large influx of Arabs to Sweden and many other countries in Western Europe, its attitude towards Israel and Jews in general has changed.