A number of school administrators have come forth in recent days to confirm that they recommend Jewish children should not enrol at their schools.
According to school administrators, law enforcement officials and social workers, the on-going conflict in Gaza has led to heightened tensions between Jews and Arabs – particularly Palestinians – here in Denmark.
And although few headmasters of schools have faced the situation, most of those at schools with a high percentage of children of Arab descent say they try to prevent Jewish parents from enrolling their children there.
On Monday, headmaster Olav Nielsen of Humlehave School in Odense publicly admitted he would refuse Jewish parents’ wish to place their child at his school.
Apprentice star Sir Alan Sugar has been said to be among a list of top British Jews thought to be targeted by extremists over Israel’s Gaza onslaught.
According to a newspaper, the multi-millionaire businessman was named on an Islamic website along with pop producer Mark Ronson, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Labour peer Lord Levy.
One strand on the site asks for help compiling a list of “those who support Israel”, the paper said, while another asks: “Have we got a list of top Jews we can target?”
The website in question denies the report:
A website has defended a message urging British Muslims to contact prominent British Jews to protest at the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The post was made during a discussion on Ummah, an Islamic internet forum. A member suggested that people who featured a list of influential Jews – including David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary – should be reminded of the plight of the Palestinian people.
Among other prominent Jews featured on the list were Lord Levy, the pop music producer Mark Ronson, the lawyer Anthony Julius, and the businessman and television personality Alan Sugar.
A link to the list, which was first published by the Jewish Chronicle newspaper, was posted by a member of the forum using the name Saladin1970.
He wrote: “It would be beneficial to start compiling a list so that we can write polite letters reminding them of the injustices of Israel and to stop supporting Israel.”
After some discussion, another member, using the name Abuislam, asked: “Have we got list of top Jews and supporters yet we can target? Can someone start posting names and addresses.”
Saladin1970 later replied: “The best thing to do is not to contact them directly”, adding that Muslim groups should boycott those named and connected businesses.
A spokesman for the website denied claims made in a newspaper report that the post represented a “Hate hit list” and that it encouraged readers to attack those named.
He claimed that an examination of the website’s records showed that the username Abuislam was registered to a freelance journalist, whose real name was known to them and who had “decided to pose as a Muslim to make Muslims look bad”.
In a statement, he said: “Like most Muslims, and a great number of non-Muslims across the world, many of our users are currently engaged in various kinds of protest and campaigning against the massacre of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli Forces.
“Clearly, most people will realise that this thread is about a peaceful form of campaigning against the state of Israel by writing ‘polite’ letters to well-known and wealthy supporters of the state asking them to withdraw that support and encouraging Muslims not to do business nor work with them until they do.”
Two questions: (1) What evidence is there that any of the listed individuals are supporters of Israel–except for the fact that they’re Jewish? (2) If that’s all the evidence these folks have, then–at least in this instance–doesn’t anti-Zionism in fact equal anti-Semitism?
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