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April 28, 2022

Netherlands sees 10-year high in antisemitic incidents

A mural caricature of soccer player Steven Berghuis depicts him as a hooked-nosed Jew in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 2021. (CIDI)
"The number of antisemitic incidents recorded in the Netherlands reached a 10-year high of 183 cases in 2021, a Dutch Jewish watchdog group said.

The 2021 tally was a 35-percent increase over the previous year, said the Hague-based Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI.

At least 72 of the incidents happened in what the CIDI called 'real-life' conditions, meaning in physical spaces and not online. Of those, 21 were acts of vandalism and three incidents were violent assaults.

In one assault, three men punched a Jewish man and his sister on the street in western Amsterdam. The woman was wearing traditional Jewish Orthodox clothes and had a mask with a star of David on it that she got from the Jewish old age home Beit Shalom while volunteering there.

One of the attackers told the siblings 'Jews don’t belong here,' the siblings told police..."
Date
April 28, 2022
Title
Netherlands sees 10-year high in antisemitic incidents, The Times of Israel
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Cnaan Lipshiz
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/netherlands-sees-10-year-high-in-antisemitic-incidents/
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