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Kristallnacht fundraiser for Gaza riles Danish Jews
THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!A leader of Denmark’s Jewish community criticized local politicians who raised money for Gaza at a Holocaust memorial event.
Donations raised at Sunday’s event in Copenhagen’s Norrebro district — commemorating the victims of Austria and Germany’s 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms against Jews — would go toward buying ambulances in Gaza, organizers from the Red-Green Alliance party said.
“When the profits from the Norrebro event go to Gaza, whose government is at war with Israel, I think that there is inappropriate confusion,” Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, president of the Jewish community in Copenhagen, told the Kristelig Dagblad newspaper.
“I do not know if this is a deliberate attempt to draw a parallel between the actions of Germans then and those of Israelis today — a parallel drawn before by people on the left and one which I strongly reject. If it’s a coincidence, I think it is unfortunate.”
MORE: http://www.timesofisrael.com/kristallnacht-fundraiser-for-gaza-riles-danish-jews/
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Not thrilled about this site, but I also saw articles about Jews being asked to NOT BE ALLOWED to participate in commeration events in Norway. This is a new level of disgusting.