CIDI Annual Semitism in the Netherlands 2001

Every year brings the Anne Frank Foundation and Leiden University Monitor
Racism and Extreme Right off. The fourth report – Jaap van Donselaar
en Peter Rodrigues – appeared at the end 2001. These are all forms of
racism, not only anti-Semitism. The researchers note an "increase
the number of violent incidents and the increase also applies in comparison
with previous years. The average over the last five years more than 300,
while the five-year average in the previous monitoring report still below 250
lag’. The report counts over the years 1999 en 2000 a total number of incidents
respectively 345 en 406. They also suggest a hardening fixed: "Remarkable in
years 1999 en 2000 the trend is to a certain degree of hardening of the
violence, that is to say: in comparison with previous years, we see
multiple targeted violence. Anti-Semitic violence takes on meaning
to…The far-right perpetrators is more forward than in the
previous period, all the numerically involves a relatively small part of
the whole…..Many incidents in the years 1999 en 2000 hold in any way
relation to asylum. Not only AZCs are often targeted by
violence, but also individual asylum seekers'.

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