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Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration: “security risk”

Nov 9, 2015 2:37 pm By Robert Spencer

It is becoming increasingly common for cowards and trimmers to use real and imagined security risks as a fig leaf to cover up their slavish adherence to the norms dictated by authoritarian political correctness. “Critics claim that Hägglund’s omission must be due to the crowd he invited to the event, implying that it could only be far-left or anti-Israel – thus creating the environment which justified the ‘security risk.'” But Hägglund masks his real agenda by hiding behind this security threat. And if there is a genuine security threat, this will only encourage the thugs and fascists and Jew-haters to menace more events, so as to turn public affairs to their liking.

Kristallnacht

“Scandal: Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration,” by Tova Dvorin, Israel National News, November 9, 2015 (thanks to David):

The organizers of an anti-Nazi event in Sweden face controversy Monday, after declining to invite the Jewish community to the event.

“Umeå against Nazism” will run in the city of Umeå on Tuesday and Wednesday, commemorating Kirstallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” the massive 1938 pogrom against Austrian and German Jews which is seen as marking the start of the holocaust.

But, absurdly, Jews will not be invited.

The organizers claim that inviting the Jewish community presents a security risk, nt.se reports, citing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests present at past events.

“In previous years, we have had a lot of Palestinian flags at these rallies, and even one banner where the Israeli flag was equated with a swastika,” organizer and local Workers’ Party member Jan Hägglund told locals. “The Jewish community wasn’t invited because we assumed they might be uncomfortable around that sort of thing.”

Critics claim that Hägglund’s omission must be due to the crowd he invited to the event, implying that it could only be far-left or anti-Israel – thus creating the environment which justified the “security risk.”

Meanwhile, the event’s Facebook page appears to even downplay the Jewish community’s role in the event, instead conveying a generalized, vanilla message of tolerance – not opposition to anti-Semitism.

Some local officials are holding counter-rallies in protest – including municipal worker Anders Agren, who invited the Jewish community to a ceremony which will feature the lighting of memorial candles and a moment of silence.

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Filed Under: Islamic antisemitism, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Sweden Tagged With: Jan Hägglund, Umeå against Nazism


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  1. miven says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    Anders Agren, you are indeed a light in the darkness.

    • Georg says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm

      Exactly, it’s nice to see there are folks here and there who have class.

  2. Forrest Adcock says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Sorry, but I don’t think a few flags waving around will make people feel uncomfortable at a rally to commemorate the start of a movement that killed millions of their family members.

    If I were one of the uninvited, I would show up, proudly defiant to say that I woild not be intimidated.

    #neveragain means never again or it means nothing.

    • PRCS says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 5:15 pm

      Sorry, Miven, while Mr. Anders is “a light in the darkness”, he could amplify that light by following Forrest’s lead.

      Unless there’s some permit problem, holding that candle lighting event at the Kristallnacht event would create a much greater public impact; particularly on Jan Hägglund and his “Palestinian” pals.

    • Marty says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 5:09 am

      Well said.
      Most Swedes are cowards, as they proved in World War Two.

      • General Pershing says

        Nov 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm

        As a Swedish person I’m sad that I cannot argue against your statement. We are a consensus plagued people and now with the invasion of tens of thousands of very aggressive muslims taking all resources from the police, schools and wellfare is going to result in a total catastrophe for us paying the tax.

        You cannot start to believe the things our government and companies are doing to “appease” the invaders. Almost free dental care ($5), free transport over all the country (we get fined if we ride one station too far).

        We are getting over 2000 muslim asylum seekers every DAY now and that is just the one being registered. That is around 700.000 on a yearly basis in a country with 9 million people. And the left is still shouting that “refugees are welcome” and the politicians are sooo afraid of being called racists.

        • Patriotliz says

          Nov 10, 2015 at 10:42 pm

          This scares me…my young niece married a Swede and lives in Stockholm. I worry for them and can’t see how they can make a life there even though both have good jobs. It seems Sweden is determined to commit national suicide.

  3. Katowice says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Just a further continuation of the left’s long-standing attempt to make themselves out to be the “real” victim of the Nazis.

  4. Angemon says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    Scandal: Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration”

    Yes, it should be a scandal, eve with Sweden’s PC MC madness.

    Some local officials are holding counter-rallies in protest – including municipal worker Anders Agren, who invited the Jewish community to a ceremony which will feature the lighting of memorial candles and a moment of silence.

    Good.

  5. cs says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    Well, I was alive to presence this, so what else will be able to see in this life? No, honestly, it is so bizarre, and I am so angry, and frustrated.
    Sweden deserve to be like Gaza, honestly they deserve it all.

  6. gravenimage says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration: “security risk”
    …………………….

    Well, this grim story pretty much sums up the insanity in Europe right now.

    Why are they even holding a commemoration of Kristallnact, if they have no interest in defending real, live, living Jews today?

    In this case, this is just masturbatory *posturing* of defending victims who were safely threatened three-quarters a century ago, and who are almost all dead now–even the survivors. This probably makes the participants feel abstractly virtuous, but it is quite meaningless.

    • Fishface says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 7:08 am

      What an accurate phrase, “abstractly virtuous”. Yes, they defend Jews who are long dead instead of the ones who are still alive.

  7. Vox populi says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    Well, I’ m not surprised : what else would you have expected from the self destructing, antisemitic swedes, racists “libertarian” swedes ?

  8. Kepha says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    If it doesn’t fit the narrative, it didn’t happen. Maybe next they’ll say that Hitler tried to exterminate the “Palestinians” in Europe.

  9. Westman says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    The event marking Kristallnacht is closed to Jews as many participants of the event are of a mindset to repeat it, should the opportunity arise.

    Is this a celebration or a Memorial of a tragedy?

    “If Jews won’t feel safe at your Holocaust memorial event, you probably haven’t learned the lessons of the Holocaust” – a Jewish quote.

    • Georg says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 10:38 pm

      A bunch of flag-waving anti-Semites. What could go wrong?

  10. ? says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    All the same, it’s probably better this way because people say “oh how sad”, curse Hitler, and erect memorials and then go home to talk about how stingy and evil Jews are supposed to be… Although one would think Europe would have learned its lesson the last time a quickly growing fanatical group gained power, notoriety, and influence through violence and hate speech against a certain group.

  11. jewdog says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    A lot of Lutherans in Sweden, as in Germany; Martin Luther wrote “The Jews and Their Lies”. As Julius Streicher testified at Nuremberg: We were taught that Jews were evil. What else could one expect? Now Sweden is finding out about Islam. Happy learning.

  12. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    This is what the ‘Heckler’s Veto’ looks like.

    The ‘HV’ is of course utterly inimical to our 1st Amendment. But it’s mother’s milk to the muzrats. It occurs when the response to someone’s speech is so violent that the original speech-not the insane response!-is suppressed.

    Yes, CAIR will lovelovelove this story. Look out patriots-the 1st has to be fought for, and won, every single generation.

  13. Godwin says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Even the Swedish women n girls are also security risk in Sweden. What else is not security risk in Sweden.?

  14. Arthur says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    Britain set up a memorial for Lee Rigby, but withheld his name to avoid provoking a response.

    Sweden hosts a memorial event for Jewish victims of Nazism, but withholds invitations from Jews to avoid provoking a response.

    It’s really not a memorial if you forget who you are remembering!

    Perhaps May 30, 2016, we in the USA will all celebrate non-Memorial Day, where we get together and remember that we used to remember people, but we’ve intentionally forgotten who they were, so as to not provoke anyone.

  15. balafama says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 1:38 am

    was this a commemoration or a celebration of kristalnacht ? i think it was a celebration and we know who the real nazis are . the hypocrisy of the left is getting tedious .

  16. cs says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 4:31 am

    Some people have advanced that Muslims are the new Jews, to me is rather, Muslims are the new Nazis.

  17. Jack Holan says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 6:58 am

    KRSITALLNACHT is about one People, Jews the beginning of the Shoah. There are no other made up victims associated with it, such as the PLO, Palestinians. JEWS OF EUROPE COME TO EUROPE ANC CRASH THIS MEMORiAL A Kristallnacht memorial without Jews is a non-existent Kristallnacht memorial.I It’s time to stand up to these Leftist Anti-Semite Organizers. Jews of Europe come to Sweden and crash this if you can.

  18. Sven E. Borg says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 11:50 am

    This SHAMEFUL behaviour is just another example – a confirmation – of the two national characters COWARDNESS and GUILEFULNESS which are standing out more and more in our degenerating society since many years. All in wake of the so embraced so-called “welfare”-society. The moral decay goes on.

  19. Champ says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    Backwards Alert!! …the Jews are a “security risk”? Boy that’s a new one.

  20. mortimer says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 12:13 am

    How do they protest HITLERISM by denying the human rights of Jews to join in the protest?

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 1:24 am

      Don’t ask questions like that Mortimer. They show you don’t understand the idiots responsible for this ‘policy’.

      In responding to them you must completely forego any use of logic. Now be sure you remember that or you’ll hurt my feelings and I’ll have to call the police.

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