Jews warned not to wear religious symbols in Copenhagen
"We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their skull caps until they enter the building and not to wear them in the street, irrespective of whether the areas they are visiting are seen as being safe," Israel's ambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon, told AFP.
Avnon added that visitors were also advised not to "speak Hebrew loudly" or demonstrably wear Star of David jewellery.
Denmark's national Jewish Religious Community organisation has also advised its members, and those at the private Jewish school in Copenhagen, to exercise caution.
Caroline Jewish School headmaster Jan Hansen told daily Jyllands-Posten: "It is not something that we do officially, but if the issue comes up we would say (to our pupils) they should think twice before walking into certain areas of Copenhagen with a skull cap or Star of David."
The warnings come a few weeks after an attack on the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen in the wake of increasing cross-border tensions between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and Israeli plans to expand settlements.
Some 20 demonstrators lobbed stones and fireworks at the embassy building on November 19. Graffiti with the word "childkillers" was painted on the embassy entrance wall.
No one was hurt in the incident and one person has since been charged in the attack.
Avnon said that after the attack, a lower-ranking officer from Denmark's foreign ministry had called the embassy offering to pay for some of the damage to the building, but that otherwise official Denmark had not reacted to the incident.
According to figures from the Jewish Belief Centre (Mosaisk Trossamfund), the organisation has received 37 reports of anti-Jewish incidents this year, predominantly in the heavily immigrant Noerrebro neighbourhood and around the Jewish synagogue in central Copenhagen.
Denmark's Jewish community is estimated at between 6,000 and 8,000 people.
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@Merlyn: I think the sheer violence of the the two world wars, the American, Australian and south African experiences of european atrocities (segregation, the slave trade, fascism, apartheid, communism, racism, colonialism) are a historical fact. 10 million people died at the hands of Europeans in the Congo alone. An equal number Africans died at the hands of slave transporter, millions of Jews, gypsies and others died at the hands of e Europe's most cultured nations. This culture of hatred has been taken to every corner of the earth with the annihilation of whole cultures. And you accuse Muslim immigrants. That is either pathetic or a denial of the contribution of European culture violence to the rest of the world.
@Yuri Kondratyuk: Yes, they are eastern Europeans. In all eastern European countries Romani people are not only victims of violence they are murdered by nazi thugs. They bring this culture to western Europe too. The mosque in several cities in Europe are routinely set ablaze. Immigrants from Africa and Asia are attacked, stabbed and shot (Germany, Sweden, Greece, Belgium plus most east European countries). Though the situation for Jews in Europe is of concern it is important to keep things in perspective and see who are actually at the receiving end. Just looking at the situation in Greece will disgust most people.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Western Europe. This time the perpetrators are not the from the native peoples, but Muslim immigrants who are bringing their culture of hatred and violence with them, when they settle in countries like Norway, Denmark or the Netherlands. Hate crimes against the Jews will continue to rise every year.
Jewish people are safe it is the Zionist who should be worried.
More of the jews playing the helpless victims, nothing new here.
I think by now it's clear who the new age nazis are.
@Zalim singh:
in 50 years, when these same European are slaves under their Muslim rulers, they will be singing a different tune, but too late!!
shameful that it is happening in 21st century Europe.