Netanyahu to European Jews after Copenhagen Attacks: ‘Israel’ Your Home

Sunday, 15 February 2015

Netanyahu to European Jews after Copenhagen Attacks: ‘Israel’ Your Home

his call following Paris attacks last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged European Jews to move to the Zionist entity after Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen's main synagogue.

"Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe," Netanyahu said in a statement, repeating a similar call made after attacks in Paris last month that killed 17 people, including four Jews.

In the first attack, a 55-year-old man was killed at a panel discussion about Islam and free speech on Saturday attended by the Swedish cartoonist behind controversial caricatures of the Mohammad (PBUH).

In the second attack, a Jewish man was killed and two police officers were wounded outside Copenhagen's main synagogue early Sunday.

"Extremist Islamic terrorism has struck Europe again... Jews have been murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews," Netanyahu said in the statement.

The Israeli prime minister said his government was to adopt a $45 million (39.5 million euro) plan "to encourage the absorption of immigrants from France, Belgium and Ukraine".

"To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms," Netanyahu said.