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February 17, 2020

Record number of antisemitic incidents documented in the Netherlands

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"Dutch Jewry's watchdog for anti-Semitism has recorded the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents ever observed in a calendar year.

The group, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, has been monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands for about 30 years. They divided the 182 incidents in 2019 - an increase of 35 percent from 2018 - into six categories in a report released Monday, including online abuse and vandalism.

Of those, the category of real-life cases - involving threats, insults and assaults on the street or in the workplace - saw the largest increase, more than doubling from 27 cases in 2018 to 61 last year.

Eighteen incidents of real-life anti-Semitism were committed by activists or supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, who during rallies in central Amsterdam called counter protesters 'cockroaches' and 'kikes,' CIDI wrote..."
Date
February 17, 2020
Title
Record number of anti-Semitic incidents documented in the Netherlands, JTA.org
Author(s)
Cnaan Lipshiz
Original Source
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/record-number-of-anti-semitic-incidents-documented-in-the-netherlands
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