Several media outlets have reported on an election poster from the Free Greens party that has been hung up in Copenhagen with the message “Free Copenhagen from Zionism.”
In this regard, the representative of the Jewish Community, Ina Rosen, states:
“Normally we welcome the diversity of election posters in the cityscape, but it is very unpleasant and a new low that a Danish party wants to ‘liberate’ Copenhagen from a specific population group. When the Free Greens want to ‘liberate Copenhagen from Zionism’, it is impossible to see it as anything other than a thinly veiled attempt to exchange the increasing anti-Semitism for votes in the municipal elections.”
Zionism is about Jews being a people like everyone else with the right to self-determination. Zionism comes in different forms. If one had wanted to attack Israel’s policies, one could of course have written that – even though it has nothing to do with the local elections. Just as one could have written “free Copenhagen from racism and xenophobia” if that was the point. It was so obviously not. It was the opposite.
A staggering majority of Danish Jews are Zionists, believing that Israel has the right to exist in peace alongside its neighbors. The choice to use this very word is an attempt to fuel anti-Semitism. It is quite obvious – a pure confessional matter.”
