Two perspectives on Israel

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LINK: Sweden:

To the 20,000 members of Sweden’s Jewish community, anti-Semitism has become a growing problem. Jews identifiable by dress or otherwise have suffered threats and violence.

The Jewish community center in the city of Malmo was fire-bombed and its cemetery desecrated.

This comes after worrying political signals. Malmo’s mayor stated that “[w]e accept neither anti-Semitism nor Zionism in Malmo” and openly advised the Jewish community that they would gain protection from violence and problems if they “distance themselves from Israel.”

Malmö is a European hotspot and notorious trouble zone regarding Islamic racism and hate crime against Jews. A significant part of the Jewish community has fled from that area in the past 10 years, due to violence and racism coming from growing numbers of Islamic "migrants". Sweden traditionally reacts to Muslim bullying with appeasement and following a heavily biased anti-Israel course diplomatically, while by lip-confessions claiming the opposite. But it is the deeds that count to me, not the lip confessions.

LINK Canada:

Why is it in the interest of Muslims in Canada to recognize Israel's rights to exist? This was the question posed by a speaker in a seminar in Mississauga a couple days ago arranged by the Canadian Thinkers' Forum.

Muslim Committee against anti-Semitism under the umbrella of Canadian Thinkers' Forum put together speakers from Muslim, Christian and Jewish Diaspora in terms of finding the way to convince Islamic nations to recognize Israel's rights to exist.

The Muslim Committee has a simple answer that none of the Jews, Christians, Muslims and other religious or non-religious people in the Middle East are willing to die except groups like Hamas trained terrorists and suicide bombers.

A rare signal of reason and sanity on an issue that seems to be beyond reason and sanity.