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NEWS
Dutch Jews Live Under Threat of Muslim Antisemitism
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris
"Children of Moroccan descent curse Jews in the street, but antisemitism buzzes in all strata of Dutch society," Rabbi Raphael Evers tells a Le Monde correspondent sent to report on what is happening to Holland's Jews after former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein suggested that religious Jews with outward signs of their Jewishness leave the country. Dutch Jews now find themselves hounded from two sides — by Muslim immigrants and by the native-born Dutch.
The Netherlands, which is predominantly Protestant, is considered a moderate and tolerant country. A period of centuries of relative peace for the country's Jews, except for their deportation to death camps where most of them perished during the Nazi occupation, is being sealed with new persecution. Bolkestein's proposal — banishing the Jews — was accepted as a solution to pacify Muslim violence.
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