re: #53 sagehen

It’s kind of a small country; how many event does it take to be representative of the whole?

I don’t know if I would call Sweden a small country. Out of 223 countries and territories in the world, it ranks as number 88.

Anyway, there is anti-Semitism in Sweden, and since we’re painting broadly here; it can be divided into roughly four kinds of anti-Semitism.

1) Old-fashioned anti-Semitism of the “Europe in the 1920s”-kind. Disgusting cultural phenomenons don’t always die easy, and as a neutral country during WWII Sweden never really had the confrontation against Jew-hatred seen in other European countries.

2) Anti-Semitism from the extreme left, generally tied to anti-Israeli ideas.

3) Anti-Semitism from the extreme right. One wonders where they picked up the idea.

4) Muslim anti-Semitism, inspired by classical Islamic anti-Semitism and more importantly by modern-day anti-Semitism in the socalled Muslim world (and obviously, far from all Muslims are anti-Semitic).

Now, can you imagine any Swedes falling outside those categories? Can you imagine that the combination of 1, 2, 3 and 4 might lead to some (undoubtably nasty) “anecdotal evidence” without that saying much about Sweden at all?