Rabbi attacked in Switzerland
The assistant rabbi of a synagogue in Lausanne, Switzerland was attacked by three 'youths' last Wednesday night as he was leaving his synagogue. Two of the 'youths' were caught after passersby stopped the attack, and the rabbi is pressing charges against them. CICAD called the incident the "worst attack of anti-semitism in Switzerland in recent years." This is surprising, in that just two years ago, CICAD reported on a “sharp rise in anti-Semitic acts [in Switzerland],” and lamented the "unresponsive" Swiss authorities. There were with 38 attacks in 2007 and 96 in 2008; statistics on attacks since then are unavailable.You might recall that Swiss President Hans Rudolf Merz met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the Durban II conference in Geneva two years ago. Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has also been seen cackling with Ahmadinejad. Anyone else think those two factoids might be connected to the country's treatment of its Jews?
A poll conducted in Switzerland in 2007 showed that 41% of respondents thought that Jews have too much power in the business world, 40% believed that Jews have too much power in international financial markets, and 45% felt that Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust. Seventeen percent of the Swiss respondents agreed that the Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus.
Labels: Durban II Conference, Hans Rudolf Merz, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss anti-Semitism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:18 AM
3 Comments:
Apart from the factoid that getting Jewish money, stolen by the nazis and put in Swiss banks, back from the Swiss was like squeezing blood from a stone, no! Or is that "yes"?
Europe needs to start kicking the third world trash out. For what reasons would any Western Jew be supportive of immigration anymore?
The Swiss were always anti-semitic bastards; nothing changes.
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