Record number of antisemitic incidents documented in the Netherlands

"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..."