ALGEMEINER
by Dave Bender
August 19, 2014

Death threats, daily anti-Semitic attacks, and harassment are causing many young Swedish Jews of the shrinking 20,000-member community to say “enough,” and seek to establish their futures elsewhere, according to a report by Zvika Klein of Israel’s NRG News.

“I and my friends decided to leave,” 22-year-old Victor Borsolov, told NRG, after getting his 11th death threat after posting pro-Israeli views on his Facebook page. Borsolov, a student of International Relations and Economics from Gothenburg, suggested some other preferable countries. “I’m thinking of emigrating to Berlin, Tel Aviv or Haifa,” he said.

“We have never seen such anti-Semitism in Sweden. Since the beginning of [IDF Operation Protective Edge against gaza rocket fire], we started to see anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in a different way from what we have seen so far in Sweden,” Borsolov said.

“We have always known that there are those who hate us in Sweden, but this time it was expressed more powerfully, because there were so many anti-Semitic remarks and attacks by anti-Semites that it was impossible to follow. Even among celebrities, politicians and journalists – it was not a criticism of the operation in Gaza, but really hate against Jews,” he said…..

……Last week, a Muslim mob in Uppsala set upon and severely beat a Jewish mother of four, for wearing a Jewish Star of David necklace. “One of the attackers signaled me to ‘Shut up or we’ll kill you,’” Anna Sjögren, in her 40s, said of the ordeal, which transpired on Thursday. So far, she said she’s too traumatized by the assault to file a police complaint. While walking in one of the city’s largely Muslim populated neighborhoods, “A Muslim girl saw that I was wearing the Star of David on my neck and she started swearing at me and spat in my face. I got very upset and pushed her off,” Sjögren told the World Zionist Organization Center for Countering Antisemitism.

Sjögren said that someone standing next to the girl then threw a sharp object at her face. “I’m not sure who it was. Everything happened so fast,” she said. There were at least ten witnesses to the attack. All ten of them were wearing hijabs or scarfs in the colors of the PLO. Some surrounding witnesses claim that I ‘tripped’ and fell and that no one hurt me. It’s just unbelievable.” Sjögren’s jaw was severely damaged, her eyes swollen, and she sustained injuries all over her body, according to a report……

Young Jewish Swedish Leader: ‘All My Friends Are Getting Death Threats’