(European Conservative) Snipers are being deployed on rooftops this week ahead of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, with security forces scrambling to protect Israel’s delegation from Islamist threats. Planned demonstrations from the city’s large and militant Muslim community threaten to tear apart the southern Swedish city of Malmö.
With 100,000 visitors descending on Malmö for the televised music event sponsored by European broadcasting agencies (with input from Israel and Australia), the Israeli and Swedish authorities are united in fear of jihadist violence against travelling Jews.
Israeli participant Eden Golan was noticeably absent from the contest’s opening ceremony Sunday, citing her attendance at a Holocaust remembrance event — with the singer understood to be keeping a low profile due to fear of jihadi assassination attempts.
