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Mon May 4, 2020, 03:15 PM May 2020

(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism Due To COVID-19 In Finland, Where Even The Nazis Failed To Instill Hate

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, a day similar to Labor Day in the US, is celebrated on May 1st in many countries throughout the world.

In Finland, the day was marred for the Jewish community due to an anti-Semitic incident in the Nordic country, Yisrael Hayom reported. A statue of Vladimir Lenin was vandalized with the words “Jewish mass murderer” and an image of a Star of David in the town of Kotka in southern Finland. The week before, a Jewish cemetery in the nearby city of Hamina was vandalized.

A member of the Finnish Jewish community told Israel Hayom: “Finland is now like other ?places. In recent months, there has been a rise in anti-Semitic incidents, in which Jews are blamed for ?the coronavirus pandemic.”

?”This is notable in online discourse and also in the stickers distributed throughout Helsinki by the ?Nordic Resistance Movement [a neo-Nazi organization].”

The anti-Semitic incidents are particularly startling in Finland, that perhaps due to its tiny Jewish community of about 1,500 Jews in a population of about 5.5 million, has very little anti-Semitism. In fact, during the Holocaust, as Jews throughout Europe were murdered by the Nazis with the enthusiastic help of their neighbors, Finland refused to allow the Nazis to harm their Jews despite the fact that Finland allied themselves with Nazi Germany during the war.

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While I don't care for the source, it is a non-partisan article, though the site is decidedly not. I looked for another source on the story; there is not one...at least not yet.
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