Maaike van Kapel

This report shows that the number of racist and anti-Semitic incidents in 2014 increased compared 2013. The explanation for the sharp increase in the number of racist incidents is unclear. One possible explanation could be a hardening in the political and social climate after the local elections in March 2014. However, the large number of reports against Geert Wilders is not included in this report. The increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents may be explained by the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the summer of 2014. In those months were in the Netherlands more anti-Semitic incidents. Due to the small number of incidents, we can draw conclusions however here. Opposite the aforementioned increase is difficult to explain decrease in the number of racist and anti-Semitic abuse incidents. A possible explanation could be that the type of profanity used fashion sensitive, allowing some epithets with anti-Semitic or racist connotation in 2014 less were used.

Three other points are covered in this report. The first is that anti-Semitic violence and racist violence take place within a different dynamics. The main difference is the reason: in anti-Semitic violence were much more often anti-Semitic intentions than that racist intentions in racial violence gave rise. The second point is that, Despite the stable small size of right-wing extremist, We note with some caution that extreme right violence appears to be increasing slightly. The third point is that the Prosecution has indicated from 2015 commune-offenses discriminatory aspect to take in its registration. Because of this, we expect 2016 a strong improvement in the understanding of the settlement of discrimination incidents.