Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks is an English teacher and a pro Israel advocate.
A few days ago, I hosted a reception in honour of two Scandinavian journalists, Ingrid Carlqvist, from Sweden and Lars Heddegaard, from Demark. The two, very brave people, who have been fighting radical Islam in their respective countries, joined hands a couple of years earlier to set up their own newspaper, “Dispatch International.” One of the purposes of that move was to provide news not published in the Scandinavian mainstream media. As a journalist, Ingrid feels that the Swedish media is biased and does not cover the Middle East conflict in an even handed manner. Ingrid went further to state that people in the media face losing their job should they express pro Israeli attitudes. Lars shared her sentiments regarding Denmark
The anti Israeli sentiments in their countries is what they both feel has given rise to a new wave of anti-Semtism disguised as “anti-Zionism” and directed at the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East. “There is hardly any mention of Jews in our media, ” Ingrid told us, “except, of course, during the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony as there are always Jews among the recipients,” she added half jokingly. “And if and when Israel is mentioned,” she maintained, “it is only to be pointed as the chief source and reason for all troubles
But it is not only anti-Semitism that these two countries appear to suffer from. Overall, there seems to be a decline in the quality of education, economic growth and other ailments that plague these formerly proud nations. “Stockholm,” Ingrid continued to lament the state of her country, “has become the rape capital of Scandinavia.” Both she and Lars attribute their countries’ path to near collapse to the en mass immigration of asylum seekers, primarily from Muslim countries, countries which pride themselves of values utterly foreign to those of Scandinavia
“It is sad that
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