{"id":39434,"date":"2016-04-11T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=39434"},"modified":"2016-04-08T07:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T05:06:45","slug":"39434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=39434","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Surprised\u2019 Israeli Teacher in Malm\u00f6"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Swedish-Jewish Activist \u2018Not Surprised\u2019 Israeli Teacher in Malm\u00f6 Told to Seek Employment Far From School Children \u2018Who Hate Jews\u2019 <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ruthie Blum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Malmo, Sweden. Photo: Wikipedia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Swedish-Jewish intellectual said she was \u201cnot the least bit surprised\u201d to learn of a report in the Israeli press on Tuesday about a teacher in Malm\u00f6 who was fired for being a Jew.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein told The Algemeiner that the only thing \u201cbaffling\u201d about the incident recounted in the report is how \u201cout-in-the-open\u201d it was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hernroth-Rothstein, well-known in Sweden for her pro-Israel activism and both personal and public battles against antisemtism in Europe, was responding to a story that appeared in the Hebrew news site nrg about \u201cA,\u201d a decades\u2019-long Israeli ex-pat who claimed she was let go from her position on the grounds that she would be hated by both Swedish and Arab children.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to nrg, \u201cA\u201d posted on Facebook a description of her experience with the principal of the school where she had only begun working in February.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListen, \u2018A,\u2019 you know that I\u2019m on your side,\u201d she recounted her employer saying to her. \u201cAnd it\u2019s really unpleasant for me to say this to you, but I think that problems are liable to arise here as a result of your origins.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA\u201d said he explained, \u201cIt won\u2019t be easy for you here. Most of the Swedish pupils are racists. They hate everybody, but especially Jews, so it could easily be that you will be getting it from them and the Arab pupils. I suggest you seek employment elsewhere, far from schools. And you know that I\u2019m telling you this because I care about you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA\u201d told nrg that Malm\u00f6 \u201chas become a place I no longer recognize. I feel the way I did when I arrived here 39 years ago \u2013 like a tourist. Though the buildings and streets are familiar, everything else has changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA\u201d said that the \u201csituation has grown increasingly worse since Operation Cast Lead,\u201d referring to the three-week IDF incursion into Gaza \u2013 from December 2008 to January 18, 2009 \u2013 to stop terrorist rocket-fire into Israel and weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled enclave.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt all choked up\u201d during the conversation with the principal, she wrote on Facebook. \u201cBut I managed to stop the tears. I was silent, and not only because I couldn\u2019t breathe, but because I already knew which \u2018problems\u2019 could arise. I understood that even the many scarves I would have to wear to hide my Star of David wouldn\u2019t help. I would have to keep quiet when asked about my background.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cOn the way home, alone in a train car, I allowed the tears of my frustration to flow. I was angry with myself. I was angry with my frustration. I was angry with my tears. I was angry about maybe having to find other work, not as a teacher. Above all, I was angry at Sweden in 2016. When I arrived home, I began to look for another job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to nrg, \u201cA\u201d moved to Malm\u00f6 with her Swedish husband, whom she met in Israel, when he served as a member of the UN Peacekeeping Force. The couple divorced about a decade later, but she remained in Malm\u00f6, where she accumulated a number of academic degrees and became an integral part of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMalm\u00f6 is lost to us,\u201d Hernroth-Rothstein told The Algemeiner. \u201cAnd by that I mean Sweden, not merely Jews. This is a city that represents an accelerated version of what we see going on in the rest of the country and the continent today, because of its relatively small size and the fact that the highly problematic areas \u2014 those densely populated by Arab immigrants \u2014 are in the middle of the city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She went on: \u201cThe Malm\u00f6 orthodox rabbi has long sounded the alarm and filed numerous police reports citing harassment, both physical and verbal. Yet the answer, from both politicians and intellectuals, has been to condemn the Jewish state and excuse antisemitism by saying that it is the logical consequence of Israeli military actions. The fish rots from the head, and Malm\u00f6 is an excellent example of this, as it has sold out and abandoned its once significant Jewish population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hernroth-Rothstein said that Swedish municipalities have started segregating communal swimming pools, due to the complaints by young women that immigrant men molest them when they go swimming. This, she said, \u201cis how Sweden responds to the violation of human rights and transgression of the Swedish law \u2014 it adapts to the perpetrator and abandons the victim, and I see the same thing happening to us Jews in Sweden today. Indeed, the teacher in question will likely receive neither a public apology nor compensation, but she is asked to adapt to the perpetrators and accept this reality. There is no excuse for this travesty of justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ruthie Blum<\/strong> is the author of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring.'”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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