Welcome to the enlightened year of 2009: where it’s dangerous for Jewish athletes to play sports in Europe.
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Sweden and Israel will play their first-round Davis Cup match in an empty arena next month because of security concerns.
Several anti-Israeli demonstrations are planned during the best-of-five series, which will be played March 6-8 at the 4,000-seat Baltic Hall.
Malmo officials announced the decision after a vote on the issue in the city’s recreational committee. The Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Left Party won the vote 5-4 after a long debate.
The committee said it could not guarantee security for the fans.
The decision came after Israeli player Shahar Peer was denied a visa to play in this week’s Dubai Tennis Championships.
Michael Klein, chairman of the Israel Tennis Federation, said it was a shame that political demonstrators could force Sweden to keep out fans.
“This means that they will not sell tickets to the general public because they are expecting provocation by troublemakers who have nothing to do with the sport,” he said. “It’s terrible that they are trying to mix politics with sports, especially in an enlightened country like Sweden.
“I trust the Swedes to hold the game in the spirit of sports and not politics. It is not them but a group of troublemakers who want to get attention who are doing this.”
I don’t support this decision at all, it’s letting the anti-Semitic monsters win. The people who have been coming out to protest over the past few weeks are in complete control of the authorities, the most chilling incident being when the protesters literally chased the London police yelling “Allahu Akhbar”. And let’s not forget what’s already happened there in Sweden, when anti-Semitic protesters threw explosives at pro-Israeli demonstrators and all the police did was break up the pro-Israel demonstration! Wasn’t Kristellnacht perpetrated by thugs that apparently even Hitler couldn’t control? We’re getting closer…
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