In 2010, the international media reported on increasing levels of anti-Semitic hate-crime in Malmö, the country's third-largest city. The reports cited desecrations, the burning of a synagogue and worshippers being taunted with 'Hitler' chants. In 2009 the Malmö police received reports of 79 anti-Semitic incidents, double the number of the previous year

Fredrik Sieradzki, spokesman for the Malmo Jewish community, estimated that the already small Jewish population is shrinking by 5% a year. “Malmo is a place to move away from,” he said, citing anti-Semitism as the primary reason.

Many Jewish people have traditionally been involved with the fur trade in Sweden resulting in attacks from both the Far Right and Animal Rights activists. The wearing of fur is not viewed the same way it is in Western Europe, nearly every woman owns fur and most men. Fur shops are common in all large towns however AR related attacks have exclusively been against Jewish owned fur shops.

In an article published in The Forward in October 2010, Judith Popinski, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, stated that she is no longer invited to schools that have a large Muslim presence to tell her story of surviving the Holocaust. Popinski, who found refuge in Malmo in 1945, stated that, until recently, she told her story in Malmo schools as part of their Holocaust studies program , but that now, many schools no longer ask Holocaust survivors to tell their stories, because Muslim students treat them with such disrespect, either ignoring the speakers or walking out of the class. She further stated that "Malmo reminds me of the anti-Semitism I felt as a child in Poland before the war. “I am not safe as a Jew in Sweden anymore.

A post that talks about the rise in antisemitism, what are the odds that it's hidden ?

Certain indy mods hate seeing anything that shows Jews under attack.

It was an unacknowledged cut and paste from wikipedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Sweden

And the excuse ftp used to hide the original post was "disruptive user'. I have checked the Indy archive and I can't see that this poster has ever posted before so he/she can't be disruptive. I then did a quick Google check and found the story to be true so we are faced with age old problem on Indy UK that of clear antisemitism by one particular mod who has a history of hiding posts that he does not like.

FTP will of course hide this post, he will block the email to the Moderation List I have sent to ensure it is not on the public record and he will bully any other Mod that disagrees with his actions.

More than any other person FTP has damaged the Indy UK site and contributed to its decline in readership. They no longer publish the number of unique visitors to the site but as a former mod I can still see them and the decline is shocking. Between 2007 during the sickening Atzmon debacle and now the number of average daily unique visitors fell from 3476 to 943 and the 'click through' (meaning they read more than one story) fell from 5 to 2. This decline is continuing and during the last meeting of my regional collective we predicted that the UK site here will effectively cease to exist (unique visitors below 5 a day) by the Winter of 2012.

ftp adds:

re: "They no longer publish the number of unique visitors to the site but as a former mod I can still see them and the decline is shocking."

Which is patently bullshit as this site is a copy of the original site which is now located at archive.indymedia.org.uk

When the site was copied all the log-ins of people that weren't in the 'Mayday' collective were disabled, and in any case such stats were never kept, nor published on the original site, let alone the copy.

Roy wrote - "When the site was copied all the log-ins of people that weren't in the 'Mayday' collective were disabled, and in any case such stats were never kept, nor published on the original site, let alone the copy."

I'll assume you are simply ignorant of the facts one it comes to your first comment (log-ins were disabled) but as to stats we both know that's a straight lie isn't it Roy ?

First things first - when Chris copied the site to Iceland and changed the url point he did indeed wipe all the old pre Mayday log-ins (breaking O so many collective agreements but we'll let that go for another time) however that's never been the only way to gain access to the site stats as I'm sure Chris or Mr Demeanor will be happy to confirm. I, along with two others that I know of, can still view the catastrophic fall in unique visitors that the site has experienced since your little flirtation with Goebbels apologist.

Now let us move to the site stats and the publishing thereof. I never said they were published on the site, I said they were published as indeed they were and as you know full well. Are you telling me you never saw the review of unique number during the collective meeting in 2006 ? Or where not a recipient of the same numbers we all got after the London meeting ? Don't forget Roy although you can lie to readers here you can't to me. We were in the same room and we saw the same documents.

Finally - Any ideas what might be the reason behind the fall in readers and contributors Roy, any clues why activists might be preferring other sites ? Are you really running the site into the ground for some political agenda of your own as Ben always maintained ?