“A large portion of the incidents is staying out of the picture,” CIDI wrote in the report.
“The lack of faith in follow-up to complaints probably plays a major role” in failure by victims to report anti-Semitic incidents, the center added.
A car belonging to the Dutch security forces guards the Maimonides and Rosj Pina Jewish schools in Amsterdam, November 25, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
In one case from January 2020, a former co-worker of a Dutch Jew threatened to hurt him and his children, adding what the alleged victim and CIDI consider anti-Semitic messages to the threats. But when the victim informed police, an officer said that accusing the co-worker of anti-Semitism “doesn’t make sense” and left it out of the complaint.