Tablet has just published a blockbuster piece by Swedish journalist Paulina Neuding about rising anti-Semitism in that country. It is a hatred being spewed mainly by Muslim immigrants, with Social Democrats providing political cover. And the typical excuses offered for such asocial, and at times, violent, behavior, will just not do: 

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In Swedish discourse, the violence, rioting, and attacks on fire-fighters and paramedics in areas like Rosengård are often explained with the same well-worn references to social inequalities that the left uses to account for similar phenomena in London and Paris. But those explanations are even less convincing in Sweden: When young people in Rosengård torch cars and attack ambulance drivers, their actions take place in one of the world’s most generous countries of asylum for refugees in one of the world’s most generous welfare states.