7,000 protesters come out against Israeli tennis match....
Standard anti-Israeli fare - rocks and fire crackers...
Dozens of anti-Israel activists clashed with police Saturday as they tried to storm a closed arena where Sweden and Israel were playing a Davis Cup tennis match.
The activists hurled rocks and firecrackers at police vans as they tried to break through the barricades set up to keep protesters from the arena. Hundreds of riot police pushed them back using truncheons.
There were no immediate reports of injuries. At least five people were detained, police spokesman Lars Hakan Lindholm said.
The clashes erupted after about 7,000 people gathered at a square in downtown Malmo to hear speeches condemning Israel's operation in Gaza and urging support for Palestinians.
Organizers of the "stop the match" protest had said the demonstration would be peaceful, but extreme-left activists had vowed to disrupt the match, which is being played without fans in Malmo.
Sweden's Left Party leader Lars Ohly told the crowd that the European Union and the rest of the world should "boycott the racist regime in Israel."
The protesters then marched toward the Baltic Hall arena, where some of them attacked the police line with eggs, rocks and firecrackers.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:55 AM
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The world is going Bat sh*t crazy and no one has a clue because they are being kept busy with their Ipods and TV's and concern that they will not be able to buy the newest Ipod or flat screen when it comes out ....sad.
Such a disconnect.
Three years before we see the same kind of thing in Canada. Isn't there a big tennis facility at York U? Probably that's where it will happen.
Meanwhile, we keep bringing future demonstrators against Israel, Starbucks store looters, and car burners into Canada.....
Thanks Mr. Khaled Mouammar. Thanks Turdeau and Cretin.
Thanks multiculturalism
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