Tre jøder besøker Skandinavia

Tre amerikanske jøder dro på ferietur til Stockholm og København denne sommeren. En i reisefølget var en religiøs jøde som bar kippa, det tradisjonelle jødiske hodeplagget. Reisebrevet en av turistene har skrevet i Huffington Post er ikke god reklame for Skandinavia.

«I'm on a flight back from Copenhagen right now, having spent eight days with two close friends visiting Stockholm and Copenhagen as a gift to myself for my 40th birthday. Both countries were wonderful in their own way. Stockholm was the cleanest city I've ever seen -- the only thing more beautiful were the people on the street. Copenhagen was rawer -- a little rough around the edges -- but the people were less reserved than Sweden, and I loved that bicycles seemed to be the main transport. We made friends in both cities, and if I had the opportunity, I'd love to go back again.

But the trip was tainted by a twinge of unmistakable anti-Semitism, which lingered in the air almost everywhere we went. I traveled with Shmuly, a religious Jewish friend with a long beard and a yarmulke. He's a gregarious guy, and like me, he loves to meet all kinds of people. But his visage drew stares -- some curious, some angry. And as the night grew longer, and the people grew drunker, even in reserved Sweden, anti-Semitic cries rang out in the streets. In Stockholm, it mainly took place at the bus stop near our Sheraton hotel. One night it was some Somalian Muslim girls in hijabs, who instead of helping us with directions, turned to us and seethed, "Put a d-ck in your ass!"