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FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Police received reports of the attack shortly after 10pm on Saturday.
A community centre connected to the synagogue was open for a youth event with around 20-30 attendees at the time of the incident.
A mother of one of the children attending said that guards are normally deployed for events at the centre.
“They ordered the young people to run down to the basement. They are there now. My daughter says that it smells of gasoline. It is very unpleasant. We’ve been worried that something like this could happen,” the mother told newspaper GT on Saturday night.
“I received an SMS from her 20-30 minutes ago. She wrote ‘Mum, I’m starting to get scared’, and that 20 masked men were throwing burning objects,” she said.
Although the motive for the attack is unknown, it follows anti-Semitic incidents in both Malmö and Stockholm earlier this weekend.
https://www.thelocal.se/20171210/three-arrested-for-molotov-cocktail-attack-on-gothenburg-synagogue
Anti-Semitic chants heard at Malmö demonstration
https://www.thelocal.se/20171209/anti-semitic-chants-reported-at-malm-demonstration
oberliner
(58,724 posts)"Yes, we are extremely concerned. It's a shame that this foreign policy situation has spread to the Jewish communities of the Nordic countries. It's nothing to be happy about," says the current head of the Helsinki Jewish community, Yaron Nadbornik.
Figures from 2015 indicate that there are some 1,500 Jews in the Helsinki area, 1,100 of whom are community members. An additional 200 or so reside in the southwest city of Turku.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/helsinkis_jewish_community_raises_security_after_arson_strike_in_sweden/9970340
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)They've had problems with them in Gothenberg specifically.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-41454707
Edit: Though if there were arrests, and Trump's policies are being blamed, maybe it was Islamists. I didn't see any reference to details about the attackers.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)20 masked men throwing firebombs in a European country sounds more like their MO.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Once energized, they are happy to attack all non-Swedish ethnics, including Jews. They also don't like Balts, Yugoslavs, etc.
But in this case, it looks like Islamists.
Abouttime
(675 posts)He offended every Muslim on earth.
MousePlayingDaffodil
(748 posts)It's on those 21 Jew-haters who were throwing the Molotov cocktails.
What? Do you think that "every Muslim on earth" is necessarily so unthinking and so easily manipulated that he or she is compelled to engage in violent criminal behavior? That strikes me as a rather bigoted, patronizing attitude.
malaise
(269,004 posts)the land grab called Jerusalem?
Thank Groper Don the Con and the Zionist land thieves.
Every actions brings a reaction.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)How many Jewish leaders can you name?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)"A declaration from the United States government that appears to endorse sole Jewish proprietorship over Jerusalem adds insult to ongoing injury and is practically guaranteed to fan the flames of violence," wrote the scholars in their petition.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/08/120-jewish-studies-scholars-condemn-trumps-jerusalem-declaration
How is firebombing a synagogue in Sweden a reaction to Trump saying he will the US embassy to Jerusalem?
malaise
(269,004 posts)How is invading and occupying Iraq and murdering over a million Iraqis a response to 9/11?
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)EllieBC
(3,014 posts)That makes sense.
And if being a Zionist makes me evil oh well. Jew haters have come up with many reasons to hate us over the centuries. This is just the newest.
Abouttime
(675 posts)The police commissioner himself in Malmo told the Times the protest and damage to the Synagogue was in response to trump.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)It is on the Anti semite Muslims who threw the fire bombs.
I am constantly astounded how often people on DU treat them with kid gloves.
noel1237
(25 posts)Sweden has had problems with integration before Chitolini.
Abouttime
(675 posts)And no, we're not stupid, it is tRumps fault.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)Malmo. Malmo. Malmo. In 2009 there were 79 attacks alone.
You can pretend hatred of Jews is new. Those of us who are Jewish know this is nothing new at all. "Tolerant" countries are often not so tolerant of us.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)This is pure, unadulterated Jew hatred that is constantly given a pass by some within our own party.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)
sl8
(13,779 posts)From https://www.thelocal.se/20141121/sweden-gothenburg-rabbi-reacts-to-death-threats
Maddy Savage
maddy.savage@thelocal.com
21 November 2014 15:31 CET+01:00
Gothenburg's rabbi received death threats following an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem earlier this week. Leading figures in the Jewish community have told The Local they fear that anti-Semitism is spreading across Sweden, with Malmö already a key target.
Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli got an email on Wednesday referencing the violent attack in Jerusalem that left four Israeli Jews and a police officer dead.
"What a wonderful day! Four of your satanic murderers were taken from the world, how wonderful! But what a pity that you weren't among them," the message read.
"But soon will come the time when the Gothenburg synagogue will be destroyed to the ground with you inside, and then you too, you pig, will be killed in the eternal fire," it added.
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More at link.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)Antisemitism existed before last year? No way!
