Netherlands: Jewish silence about the hatred felt towards them by many Muslims

Via Arutz Sheva 7 (written by Manfred Gerstenfeld):

In the Netherlands, a three part TV program on anti-Semitism is being broadcast. It deals with, respectively, the Netherlands, the UK, and France. The Dutch Jewish Broadcasting organization (Joodse Omroep) charged Hanneke Groenteman, an experienced TV journalist, with conducting the interviews. She is a child Holocaust survivor. Her own statements about her ignorance of Dutch anti-Semitism as she discovers it in the documentary illustrate how much she has been in denial for many years about the anti-Semitism in the public domain and elsewhere in the Netherlands. 

Groenteman is a member of the five-person Council of Recommendation of Another Jewish Voice (EAJG), a Jewish anti-Israel group. When established, one of its activists was the most extreme Dutch Jewish anti-Semite of the time, the late Hajo Meijer.
The documentary’s title “The Canary in the Coalmine”[1] is catchy, but unfortunate. In the old days, coal miners took a canary down into the mine with them. When it stopped singing they knew that there was poisonous gas in the mine and that they had to escape. The bird thus had to die so that the miners could live. The badly-chosen metaphor is that the Dutch at-large can learn from the racist acts against the Jewish community. (...) 

One Jewish interviewee in the documentary is Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi communities outside the three major Dutch cities. He tells Groenteman about the many cameras surrounding his house in the town of Amersfoort. He also mentioned that a car once tried to run him over. 

Another rabbi, Raf Evers, is leaving the Netherlands to become Chief Rabbi of Dusseldorf in Germany. He said that there were parts of Amsterdam he would never visit. Evers mentioned that even in the upscale neighborhood in which he lives, he sometimes hears shouts of “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.” Furthermore, some religious Jews who are recognizable as such from their clothing say to the interviewer that they intend to leave the country.

David Beesemer, the former chairman of the Maccabi sport organization, said that polarization in the country is rising. He thinks it quite possible that in the future there could be a civil war in Europe. Another interviewee is Max van Weezel, a leftwing Jewish journalist who in 2006 coauthored a book about the Netherlands titled Land of Hatred and Envy.[3] He said that during the 2014 Gaza conflict he had considered leaving the Netherlands. (...) 

Though not all anti-Semitism in the Netherlands comes from Muslims by far, theirs is the most virulent. The Jewish interviewees, however, do not emphasize this. Jewish silence about the hatred felt towards them by many Muslims has also recently been exposed by Meindert Fennema, a non-Jewish political scientist.[4] 

Also some Dutch Muslims were interviewed. The most interesting is the young novelist Mano Bouzamour, who has a Dutch Moroccan background. He recounts that he and his brother listened to classical music at home. When it was too loud for his mother she said “stop the Jewish music.” He relates how after having a Jewish classmate for the first time, he rid himself gradually of the anti-Semitic prejudices from his home and environment. In the past he has mentioned that his critical observations in a novel on phenomena in the Muslim community have led to mass hysteria there.[5] 

The other Muslims interviewed are street youth, for whom anti-Semitism and using the curse “cancer Jew” are common. The documentary shows also a brief scene of ISIS youth marching with flags of the terrorist organization in the summer of 2014 in a Hague Muslim neighborhood. They shout “death to the Jews.”

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