(JNi.media) The anti-Nazi rally in Umeå, Sweden, proceeded on the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht Monday, without Jews. About 300 Jews are believed to be living in Umeå, the biggest city in Norrland and the twelfth biggest in Sweden, with 79,594 residents—including Jews.
Organizer Jan Hägglund, member of the local socialist Workers’ Party, said the decision not to invite local Jews to the remembrance of murdered Jews had been made because the event could become an “unwelcoming or unsafe situation” for Jews. Norrköping Tidningar reported that past Kristallnacht commemorations were rife with Palestinian flags, as well as banners with the Star of David equals the Nazi swastika equation. Just the way it was when the Mufti and Hitler used to run them…
In short, as another Workers’ Party guy spelled it out, this was a leftist, anti-Israel affair, as practiced only a thousand miles away, in Amsterdam, by MK Haneen Zoabi.
Staffan Aronsohn, a Swedish Jew, posted on the organizers’ Facebook page a message that, more or less, reflected most of the reactions up north to this travesty (Thank you, Google Translate): “It is directly disgusting and historielösa to have a manifestation of Kristallnacht without Jewish involvement! This is not only a low point without during all understanding for normal people who have humanist feelings. Shame on you and all the politicians present should be fired from their mission.”
Directly disgusting and historielösa indeed!
A Norrköping Tidningar editorial asked: “What is the point of a rally against Nazism if the relatives of the victims aren’t invited?”
A local lawmaker, Anders Ågren of the Moderate Party, said he was planning to get together with the local Jewish Association to light candles and have a moment of silence in memory of the victims—the Jewish ones.