CIDI Monitor Antisemitische incidenten in Nederland 2008
After a relatively quiet year 2008, with 108 antisemitic incidents against 104 in the previous year, CIDI counted during Operation Cast Lead (27 december 2008 tot 23 January 2009) in less than one month 98 antisemitic incidents. That is almost as many as in the whole year 2007 of 2008. This is an international movement. Other European countries also recorded a sharp rise, while the growth in the number of antisemitic incidents in 'quiet periods' per country can be very different.
During the Gaza Period, the number of reports of serious incidents – physical violence and actual threat thereof – higher than in any of the two previous years (3 in 2007, 5 in 2008, 9 During Gaza).
Anti-Semitic material on the internet as usual not counted by CIDI. The Discrimination Hotline Internet (MDI) reported, as well as the police, for 2008 a comparable rest. The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in police and MDI 2008 however, was high in relation to other discriminatory incidents. Although the estimated number of Jews in the Netherlands (40.000) much lower than the number of Muslims (850.000 in 2007), Police registered in 2008 141 incidents because 'Jewishness (or look like)’, against only 116 incidents because 'Muslim (or look like)’. And although most reported incidents in MDI 2008 related to Muslims (with a difference of 1), Most criminalize expressions deemed in 2008 (252) antisemitic.
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