~In 2002, the Swedish government proclaimed it was cracking down on anti-Semitism and the surge in hate crimes against the Jewish minority. It did so by allotting the national Jewish council $500,000 for added security needs. This was my country’s answer to our plight: bullet-proof windows for our children’s schools and higher walls for us to hide behind. We ask to live freely, and they build us a ghetto. It is not only inadequate, it is an insult. When I expressed my disappointment in this “effort,” I was called ungrateful, even by my fellow Jews. And that makes me think that Kuba was right. Busy being thankful for freedom, we fail to see that what we are helping achieve is freedom from us, not freedom for us...... Many don’t know that the Sami people, Sweden’s indigenous population, are allowed to perform shehita on their reindeer; it’s just not called shehita. The Sami are protected under Sweden’s minorities law, and they enjoy widespread support for their right to preserve their practices and their culture. Even fewer know that the Jewish population is also included and If the experts and scholars are correct, and if not just Sweden but Europe is over for the Jews, I at least want to help make the world aware of the long train of broken promises that have brought us to this point . . .~
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:22:49 +0000
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