I would like to congratulate you for having raised such a polite, intelligent, young man as your son,

Einar. Obviously, a young man who knows how to behave well when he is a guest in someone's
country; .happily taking their free hospitality and then insulting them, is undoubtedly the correct
way to behave. Is it a fine Icelandic tradition to spit is someone's face in this way? His willingness to
fall for unremitting propaganda without asking any questions or wanting to hear another narrative,
shows a single mindedness which is truly remarkable. And his courage, despite repeated
warnings, in waving that Palestinian scarf leaves me speechless and full of admiration. Waving an
Israeli or LGBT flag in Gaza would really show just how truly courageous he is. His sticking it to those
damn Joos was without exception, impressive. As for his musical ability, words fail me. You must be
so proud or as we say in Yiddish, you must be kvelling nachas.

He is obviously a proud Icelander, an inheritor of your country's traditional antisemitism.

“In 1938, when the country was still an autonomous territory under Danish trusteeship, it legislated
to prohibit entry Jewish refugees and to expel the few hundred Jews who had taken refuge there.

Hundreds of volunteers from Iceland, including the son of the first president of the Icelandic
Republic, Sveinn Bjornsson, joined the Waffen SS. Some served in the SS Totenkopf, the camp guard
units. Thousands more went to the Icelandic Nazi Party represented in parliament.

Among the most convinced Nazi activists, the greatest Icelandic writer, Gunnar Gunnarson, was an
acquaintance of Heinrich Lohse who would become the Reichskomissar Ost and the butcher of the
Latvian ghettos. Nowadays, the Gunnarson Institute is campaigning for the Swedish Nobel Academy
to award its posthumous Literary Prize to the great writer who was unfairly dismissed at the time,
according to him, for political reasons.”1

“Every year, during the Lent period before Easter, daily hymns full of hatred for the Jews are read by
distinguished citizens and broadcast on Iceland’s public-radio station.

Iceland also gave warm refuge to the Estonian Nazi war criminal Evald Mikson. At the end of the
1980s, the Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff tried to bring Mikson to trial for his involvement in the murder
of Jews in Estonia. This led to many Icelandic media attacks against Israel. And the country’s
government took more than ten years after Zuroff’s initial appeals to set up a commission to
investigate Mikson’s war crimes.

In 2015, the city council of the country’s capital, Reykjavik, decided to boycott Israeli-produced
goods. In 2011, Iceland’s parliament was the first in Western Europe to recognize a Palestinian state.
And Iceland’s Birgitta Jonsdottir was the first parliamentarian of any country to visit participants of
the failed second Gaza flotilla.”2

I would boycott Icelandic goods if, like Israel, you actually produced anything worth boycotting. I can
happily live without both herring and cod.

Tell Einar that his pathetic gestures might annoy us but they do not scare or intimidate us and they
will change nothing. As a people we have survived far worse and we will go on to flourish in the face
of his and the Icelandic nation's animus towards us.

Finally, the best revenge is ridicule as per the attached.

1
Arie Avidor Israel Advocacy Movement Page
2
Manfred Gerstenstein Mosaic Magazine 4 April 2018
I look forward to your comments.