Sunday, January 10, 2016

Netherlands: "Jews are more occupied with the question of if they will ever leave"


Via NL Times:
In a year that saw several crimes related to anti-Semitism occur in the Netherlands and a vicious assault on a kosher supermarket in Paris, about 85 Jewish people emigrated out of the Netherlands for Israel, an increase from about 61 a year earlier. The violence prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for Jews living in Europe to flee for Israel.

“85 is still not much out of a community of 45 thousand,” Guy Muller told the Volkskrant. Muller represents the Netherlands-based Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI). “But Dutch Jews are more occupied with the question of if they will ever leave,” Muller said.

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