Denmark: Anti-Semitic vandalism of Copenhagen church

To call the perpetrators of acts of violence "idiots" only serves to donwplay the seriousness of the situation.

The Local reports: (Via Watch: Antisemitism in Europe)

Anna Church hosted Bent Melchior, Denmark’s former chief rabbi, for a Sunday talk related to the 70th anniversary of Denmark’s liberation from Nazi Germany.

Prior to the event, unknown perpetrators painted the phrases “Free Gaza” and “Close the KZ camps” on the church’s main door and threw bricks through some of its windows. 

“Not to be immodest, but I must admit that this was meant for me. I’m sad to see that there are such idiots out there and I am sorry that I was cause of something like this,” Melchior told Politiken.

Copenhagen Police said that it is treating the vandalism as “politically motivated”. 

Denmark’s small Jewish community – estimated at no more than 8,000 people – has been on edge since gunman Omar El-Hussein shot and killed a Jewish volunteer security guard outside of a Copenhagen synagogue in one of two February 14-15 shootings that rocked the nation. 

Last month, a Jewish store in Copenhagen had a window broken and an anti-Semitic slur scrawled on its wall.Even prior to the attack, Denmark’s Jews reported that anti-Semitic acts were on the rise.

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