STRAND (JTA) — A Norwegian mayor asked a church to replace its traditional Star-of-David Christmas decoration due to complaints that it’s too associated with Israel and Jews.
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Strand Mayor Irene Heng Lauvsnes asked the Klippen Pentecostal church, which lights a large Star of David neon decoration in a municipal park where it holds a Christmas celebration, to replace that this year symbol with a “traditional Christmas star,” the Strandbuen newspaper reported Wednesday.
The unnamed critics said the church “designed [the decoration] as a Star of David, a national symbol both for the Jews and for the State of Israel” and “therefore does not fit in the public space” in Strand.
The church is considering the request as it does “not want to provoke in any way,” , its representative, Tom Øystein Angelsen told Strandbuen.
The use of the Star of David in Christmas decorations is common throughout Northern Europe.
The municipality’s intervention provoked anger, including by the editor-in-chief of the Dagen daily, Vebjørn Selbekk.
“Municipal Christmas bureaucrats obviously do not want a Jewish or Israeli mark on their Christmas. Then we almost have to remind them of some key facts about why we celebrate Christmas at all,” Selbekk wrote in a column titled “merry Jew-free Christmas,” adding: “That holiday is marked by the fact that a Jewish boy was born to a Jewish mother in a Jewish stable in a Jewish city in a Jewish country.”
The park must remain “neutral” especially in light of the controversy, Lauvsnes, the mayor, told Aftenbladet.
Good.
We don’t belong with them anyhow.
I had a mashgiach Many years ago that one time told us, ‘when we try too much to be like them, they repel is’ its in the fabric of our makeup.
I thought anti Zionism is independent of anti Semitism?
Leftist Jew hating euro trash scum
A product of Lebensbohrn. Probably 15% of the population is related to that program.
Yes exactly 100 percent right being They should take it off the disgusting anti Jewish anti god anti moral Zionist use for their flag, jews are not supposed to be in the news so much when they are it provokes others.
Boruch Hashem that Arafat was too stupid to leverage the disastrous Oslo (Norway) accords; otherwise there’d be no Jerusalem nor
Hebron, nor Kever Rochel; and probably no Israel by now! All the “volunteers” to “protect the Palestinians in Israel are either German, or Norwegian.