Stockholm – Sweden has earmarked 4 million kronor ($630,000) to boost security for the country’s small Jewish minority.
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The move comes after criticism at home and internationally that Sweden needs to do more to protect Jews from anti-Semitic hate crimes.
Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag says if no extra security measures are taken “there is a risk that people don’t dare visit synagogues in Sweden.”
Sweden saw a surge in reported hate crimes against Jews — including harassment, violence and vandalism — in the wake of Israel’s invasion of Gaza in 2009. Many Swedish Jews say they’ve experienced growing hostility in recent years, especially in the southern city of Malmo, which has a fast-growing Muslim population.
An estimated 20,000 Jews live in Sweden.
First the Swedish government and its media demonize Israel non-stop, and let the muslims who immigrated there run amok, they turn a blind eye to the muslim terror, then, they wake up that there is a need to protect the Jewish population. Their actions are too little too late.
Are you aware that Sweden is the only nation in the world, including Israel, that has made Yiddish a national language and has funded it with public tax monies?
It is not black and white.
Wow!! That’s a lot of
money! We should make an appeal in every shul ti help the swedish govt.