Leftists object to Dutch police decoying as Jews
As I am sure many of you have already read elsewhere, police in Holland have been sending out decoys dressed as Jews to catch anti-Semitic attackers. Here's why from Paul Belien at Hudson New York: "Decoy Jew" is a new phrase in the Netherlands. Jews are no longer safe in major Dutch cities such as Amsterdam. Since 1999, Jewish organizations in the Netherlands have been complaining that Jews who walking the Dutch streets wearing skullcaps risk verbal and physical attacks by young Muslims. Being insulted, spat at or attacked are some of the risks associated with being recognizable as a Jew in contemporary Western Europe.Ironic? Not at all. Thirty years ago this summer, Amsterdam was one of the cities I visited on my way back to the US from yeshiva in Israel. There were five things I remembered about Amsterdam: A night ride on a boat in the canals; a visit to the Rijksmuseum which had an exhibit of Rembrandt paintings like the one above (Aristotle holding a bust of Homer) leading up to a huge painting called Night Watch (and seeing a Hasidic Jew along the way who looked remarkably like one of the people pictured in the paintings); arriving in Amsterdam a day early because the person whose parents we were supposed to stay with in Antwerp forgot to tell them, so we got right back on the next train; a road sign that showed how far it was to various cities in the US; and a visit to Anne Frank House, which even in 1980 had an exhibit about the poor suffering 'Palestinians' and how Israel stole 'their land.'
Last week, a television broadcast showed how three Jews with skullcaps, two adolescents and an adult, were harassed within thirty minutes of being out in the streets of Amsterdam. Young Muslims spat at them, mocked them, shouted insults and made Nazi salutes. "Dirty Jew, go back to your own country," a group of Moroccan youths shouted at a young indigenous Dutch Jew. "It is rather ironic," the young man commented, adding that if one goes out in a burka one encounters less hostility than if one wears a skullcap.
Amsterdam was way ahead of the rest of Europe even back then, and so it's not surprising that it's become so virulently anti-Semitic today. From what I have heard, it's become a disgusting city in which prostitutes display their wares in storefront windows like pets are displayed in pet stores in more civilized countries in the world (yes, that's what I was told by someone who had been there). I guess all of the disgusting traits go together.
Jay Nordlinger comments.
I wonder what those young Moroccans meant by “your own country.” Helen Thomas means Germany and Poland, chiefly. (She did not specify Auschwitz: That was the “peace activists” and “humanitarians” aboard that Turkish ship.) Do they mean Israel? It must be so confusing for a Jew, this “go home” stuff. Where’s home? Poland? Israel? Mars?According to the anti-Semites of the world, Jews have no home. Those Jews who thought that by establishing a state in Israel, the world would suddenly recognize that we have a home were fooling themselves. No, I'm not saying that we shouldn't live here - we should. I'm saying that we have to recognize the reality that we will never be a 'normal country.'
But the Moroccans clearly have a sure sense of home: Holland, and Europe generally.
But back to the 'decoy Jews' being sent out by the police. It seems that Holland's Leftist parties are not happy about them.
The deployment of "decoy Jews", however, is being criticized by leftist parties such as the Dutch Greens. Evelien van Roemburg, an Amsterdam counselor of the Green Left Party, says that using a decoy by the police amounts to provoking a crime, which is itself a criminal offence under Dutch law.Jay Nordlinger comments:
Got that?If you go out looking like a Jew, and a Muslim physically assaults you, it’s your fault — kind of like it’s your fault if you’re a girl and your skirt is too short. To be on the safe side:Don’t look Jewish.And if you do look Jewish, you had better be Jewish, or the Dutch Greens won’t like it. Or something.Yes, it can. Belien goes on to report that all but the ultra-Orthodox Jews are leaving Antwerp (not Amsterdam) for New York, London (one has to wonder why London - it's clearly headed in the same direction) or Israel. One can only wonder why the ultra-Orthodox Jews are not leaving Antwerp too. Read the whole thing.
The new anti-Semitism is sometimes hard to keep up with.
Or, if you’re a Muslim, and you assault a Jew who is actually a Jew, that’s kind of bad, but if you assault a Jew who turns out to be a decoy — even though you thought he was a Jew — that’s not so bad, because you were tricked . . . or something.
The new anti-Semitism can give you a headache.
Nordlinger goes on to report on a comment by one of the Jews leaving Antwerp for New York that in New York even the non-Jews are pro-Israel. While that's true, in the US the problem is that many of the Jews are not pro-Israel. Read the whole thing.
Reading the claim that 'even the non-Jews are pro-Israel' in the US kind of reminded me of this clip from a movie we took the older kids to see many years ago.
By the way, my eldest daughter, who was about 3-4 at the time, insisted on singing "there are no cats in America and the streets are covered with chocolate." She's probably the same age as many of my readers.... To each his own nirvana.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:11 AM
3 Comments:
the worst is the communist Dhimmi "jew" Joop Cohen
Sir,
I am not a Jew - I am British by Birth and now an adopted American citizen who is supporter of Israel, and who believes that radical Islam poses a dire and escalating threat to the Western world and its way of life.
Europe appears to be descending into a maelstrom of chaos, driven by the secular relativism of the political and academic elites who hold power there. They have no moral touchstone with which to guide their actions, and so determine policy based on political expediency and discredited socialist theory.
America, under the Obama regime, is only a half step behind Europe in this regard, and while the anti-semitism that has such deep roots in Europe is harder to find here, to our shame it still exists in the halls of academia and the corridors of power, and in some sub-groups of our general population.
I fear that the world is heading for another dark passage of history, and much violence will be unleashed upon us all before it is over.
May God bless us all.
Sir,
I am not a Jew - I am British by Birth and now an adopted American citizen who is supporter of Israel, and who believes that radical Islam poses a dire and escalating threat to the Western world and its way of life.
Europe appears to be descending into a maelstrom of chaos, driven by the secular relativism of the political and academic elites who hold power there. They have no moral touchstone with which to guide their actions, and so determine policy based on political expediency and discredited socialist theory.
America, under the Obama regime, is only a half step behind Europe in this regard, and while the anti-semitism that has such deep roots in Europe is harder to find here, to our shame it still exists in the halls of academia and the corridors of power, and in some sub-groups of our general population.
I fear that the world is heading for another dark passage of history, and much violence will be unleashed upon us all before it is over.
May God bless us all.
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