Posts Tagged: Sweden Jews
Sweden Undertakes Measures to Address Jewish Life, Antisemitism in Country
JNS.org - Sweden is appointing an official to examine the obstacles to Jewish life in the Scandinavian country and make proposals on how to strengthen...
Sweden Is a Perplexing Location for an International Antisemitism Conference
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has announced that his country will host an international antisemitism conference to commemorate the Holocaust. This gathering of heads of...
Sweden’s Antisemitism Problem
Jews in Sweden account for less than 0.2% of the population, but issues concerning them vary between negative and highly negative. The naive observer may...
Swedish Jews Protest Violent Neo-Nazi Group’s Plan to Rally Near Gothenburg Synagogue on Yom Kippur
Swedish Jewish leaders are appealing to police in Gothenburg to reroute a neo-Nazi march that will pass close to the city's synagogue on September 30...
Israel Reproaches Swedish Envoy, Cuts UN Funding Over UNESCO Vote
JNS.org - Following UNESCO’s May 2 vote to deny Israel’s sovereignty over its capital city of Jerusalem, the Jewish state has taken immediate steps to counter the latest...
Antisemitic Threats Raise Security Concerns for Sweden’s Jews, Prompt JCC Closure
JNS.org - Following the closure of the Judisk Föreningen JCC in Umea, Sweden, due to numerous threats and antisemitic vandalism, Jewish organizations have called on Swedish...
Sweden’s Housing Minister to Resign After Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
JNS.org - Sweden’s housing minister, Mehmet Kaplan, will resign following remarks in which he compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews, Swedish...
Danish Star of ‘The Bridge’ Quits TV Show Over Feeling Unsafe as Jew in Sweden (VIDEO)
A Jewish actor who starred in a Scandinavian television drama said one of the reasons he quit the show was because he did not feel safe...
In Europe, the Jews Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
In a piece by Italian journalist Giulio Meotti for Israel National News, he writes that the last Jews of Malmo, Sweden, are departing for more friendly shores: ......
Swedish Citizens Receive Threatening ISIS-Style Messages to Convert or Die
Dozens of Swedish citizens received threatening letters with "ISIS" signatures, calling for them to either convert to Islam, pay a tax to the terrorist organization,...
The Swedish Tiger Roars as Synagogues Close
It was a familiar slogan throughout war-time Sweden: en Svensk tiger, which can be translated as “a Swedish tiger” -- or, more to the point: “a Swede...
Swedish Synagogues Shuttered Over Terror Threat
JNS.org - Sweden’s Jewish community has shut down synagogues across the country as a precautionary measure against a possible terrorist threat, the World Jewish Congress said. According...
BDS Supporters Pressure Swedish Store Owners to Boycott Israeli Goods
Supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement descended on stores in Malmo, Sweden on Sunday to intimidate owners into dropping Israeli products. "Join...
Scandinavian Nations Grapple With Radical Islam and Antisemitism After Denmark Attacks (VIDEO)
JNS.org - Last Sunday, terrorist Omar El-Hussein fired shots outside a Copenhagen cultural center that was holding a debate about free speech and Islam, killing...
