Pro-Israel rally crashed in Sweden

by tikun | January 25, 2009 at 10:36 am

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This is one of those incidents where the police "blame the victim" by not protecting the legal demonstrators and allow the illegal march to push its way forward in order to confront the Israeli supporters pelting them with eggs, bottles and tear gas grenades. Not Sweden's police finest hour.

A pro-Israel rally in Malmo, Sweden was torn apart Sunday by pro-Palestinian residents who arrived on the scene with eggs, bottles, and tear gas grenades which they threw at Israel's supporters. Police dispersed the entire crowd.

Seven hundred people took part in the rally in support of Israel, which was held at the city's main square. It was organized by Malmo's Jewish community and Sweden's Democratic Party.

I can not understand what the police were thinking.

"At some point, about a half an hour after the protest began, pro-Palestinian protestors began to throw eggs, bottles, and even a tear gas grenade," Elad Meier, a Bnei Akiva and Jewish Agency envoy to Sweden, recounted.

The Jewish community in Malmo was angered by the police's conduct, and its president has lodged an official complaint stating that only those who had protested without a permit should have been dispersed.