Dutch TV channel boss quits over alleged anti-Semitism
International, MNA | A top official at a new right-wing Dutch public television channel resigned on Wednesday after reports linking him to anti-Semitic propaganda.
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International, MNA | A top official at a new right-wing Dutch public television channel resigned on Wednesday after reports linking him to anti-Semitic propaganda.
Dozens of incidents include smear campaigns and threats of violence.
“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 th...
A surveillance camera can be seen next to a Star of David (Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa) The number of antisemitic incidents recorded in the Netherlands in 2020 decreased by 25% over the previous year but was still among the highest totals in a decade. The annual report by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, released Wednesday counted 135 incidents last year compared to 182 cases in 2019. But the 2020 tally is identical to the one for 2018 and the third-highest since 2010. CIDI attributed the decrease to the paucity of real-life interactions between ...