Denmark’s chief rabbi said on Sunday that he was “disappointed” at a call by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on European jews to emigrate to Israel, The Irish Times reported.
Netanyahu said on Sunday attacks such as Saturday’s gun attack on a free speech event are likely to continue and Israel would welcome European Jews who choose to move there.
The attacks resembled the deadly shootings in Paris in January at the office of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and two days later at a Jewish supermarket.
Two people were killed in two Copenhagen shootings on Saturday, which police believe were carried out by the same suspect.
One person died in an attack at an event promoting freedom of speech and another, a security guard, in the assault at a nearby synagogue.
“This wave of attacks and the murderous anti-Semitic assaults that are part of it is expected to go on,” Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting, describing the shootings as “extremist Islamic terrorism.”