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anti-Semitism in Denmark

Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
May 8, 2026, 8:15 pm
Denmark records third straight year of historically high antisemitism
Jewish community of some 6,000 reports 199 antisemitic incidents – prior to Oct. 7 there were around 7 per year; 24 incidents recorded against Jewish kids and teens, 3 of them violent
By Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
October 2, 2024, 12:35 pm
Danish and Swedish police probing explosions, gunshot at Israeli embassies
Foreign Ministry says Copenhagen embassy was closed during likely grenade blasts, staff and building unharmed; Swedish police confirm Israeli embassy in Stockholm shot at Tuesday
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
February 22, 2024, 3:42 pm
Post-October 7 antisemitism in Denmark at highest level since WWII
All 121 recorded incidents of antisemitism were ‘Jew-hatred and not just criticism of Israel,’ says leader of 7,000-strong Danish Jewish community
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative - Danish policemen stand guard in front of the city court in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 10, 2016. (AFP/Scanpix Denmark/Emil Hougaard)
January 12, 2024, 5:17 pm
Danish police say 7 arrested in December over foiled terror plot ‘linked to Hamas’
Copenhagen prosecutor apparently backs up comments by Netanyahu, who accused Gaza-based terror group of involvement in plot against Jewish or Israeli targets
By AFP
Danish soldiers patrol the area of the port of Aarhus, Denmark where military vehicles of the US army are parked, on January 16, 2023. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)
December 3, 2023, 10:47 pm
Denmark deploying troops to protect Jewish sites, as antisemitism rises
Defense ministry warns of ‘serious’ threat of terrorism, says police resources have been stretched thin by public response to Israel’s war against Hamas
By Agencies
Members of the MuJu & Co. pass under the infamous 'Work Will Make You Free' sign at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum in Poland on October 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Dan Meyrowitsch)
November 9, 2022, 12:42 pm
From Auschwitz to Iftar: Danish Muslim-Jewish biker club revs up interfaith dialogue
Uniting over a common love of motorcycles, members of MuJu & Co. hit the road to fight bigotry, including guarding over a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen every Kristallnacht
By Melanie Lidman
Tombstones vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark, November 10, 2019. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
October 17, 2020, 2:07 pm
Danish neo-Nazi jailed for a year for desecrating over 80 Jewish graves
Accomplice yet to be sentenced for attack; pair also vandalized building adorned with two Stars of David, put stickers with logo of neo-Nazi group on rainbow-colored bench
By AFP
ILLUSTRATIVE -- Members of the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement march through the town of Ludvika, central Sweden, on May 1, 2018. (Ulf Palm/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:38 am
Scandinavian neo-Nazis circulate anti-Semitic flyers on Yom Kippur
Far-right extremists carried out coordinated campaign in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Jewish holy day, says World Jewish Congress
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tombstones vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark, November 10, 2019. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
November 13, 2019, 4:41 pm
2 arrested over Jewish cemetery vandalism in Denmark
Suspects, one reportedly a member of a neo-Nazi group, are accused of daubing paint on 84 gravestones, knocking down several
By AP
A Yello star sticker on a Jewish grave in Denmark on Nov. 10, 2019. (Courtesy of Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal via JTA)
November 11, 2019, 12:33 am
On Kristallnacht anniversary, yellow stars placed at Jewish sites in Scandinavia
Stickers found on homes of Jews, a synagogue, gravestones and a café in Sweden and Denmark; authorities investigating incidents as hate crimes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Dean of Copenhagen Cathedral Anders Gadegaard (second from the right) and his congregation offer prayers for the shooting victims outside the synagogue Krystalgade in Copenhagen, on February 15, 2015 after two fatal attacks in the Danish capital, at a cultural center during a debate on Islam and free speech and a second outside the city's main synagogue. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
January 23, 2019, 4:32 am
Danes downplay seriousness of physical assaults on Jews
4 years after a jihadist killed a Jewish guard outside a Copenhagen synagogue, survey finds 42 percent of Danes say attacks on Jews are a problem
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A man kneels to light a candle beneath a police cordon outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, after a shooting there left 11 people dead on October 27, 2018 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
October 28, 2018, 8:24 am
Pittsburgh shooting is latest in series of recent attacks on Jewish institutions
From Seattle to Toulouse to Istanbul, attackers, whether neo-Nazis or jihadists, have repeatedly targeted synagogues, schools and community centers
By Agencies
Bent Lewinsky waits to celebrate Danish Jewry’s 1943 rescue outside the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen, Oct. 11, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
October 16, 2018, 3:44 am
In Denmark, the world’s only happy Holocaust commemoration event
Danish Jews commemorate being saved 75 years ago, when 7,200 Jews from the Nazi-occupied Scandinavian land were ferried aboard small ships to neutral Sweden
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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