Sweden Must Get on the Right Track

Once upon a time Sweden produced both charm and righteousness. It graced the world with Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman with his Smiles of a Summer Night, ABBA, the pop group, and the courageous Raoul Wallenberg who as a diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews in Budapest from the Holocaust by providing them with “protective passports.” Today, Sweden does not exemplify either charm or political wisdom. In most recent years it has had a high rate of anti-Semitism, the highest rate in Europe, and been the scene of violence and discrimination against Jews. Swedish towns have witnessed attacks on Jewish youth centers and synagogues, death threats, anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish property, and use of Molotov cocktails against Jewish funeral parlors. Most notorious is the town of Malmo, a city now half an hour train ride away from Copenhagen via the Oresund Bridge, which now has a considerable number of Muslim inhabitants. In that city, attacks on Jews tripled,...(Read Full Article)