Op-Ed: Vignettes on Amsterdam's Anti-Semitism

INN ^ | 6/25/12 | Charles Dahan

[Nachum]

Interview series: Charles Dahan, Arabic speaking Amsterdam Jew, "The children outside the synagogue sang 'Here come the Jews, death to the Jews, we will get them."

Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Charles Dahan

“One Yom Kippur, I walked out of the beautiful Amsterdam Portuguese synagogue together with a law professor. In front of the nearby Jewish Historical Museum, some Moroccan boys were singing in Arabic with a nice melody.

The professor said, “Look at those kids.” He remarked on how pleasant their singing was.

“I said, ‘You don’t know what they’re singing! The words are ‘Here come the Jews, Death to the Jews! We will get them.’

"He responded, ‘That’s impossible. Look how nice they are!’ I got very angry, but Dutchmen are naïve and don’t want to believe what happens right in front of their eyes.”

Charles Dahan, an Amsterdam wine trader, was born in Marrakesh in Morocco. His mother tongue is Arabic. In 1956, he immigrated to France at the age of twenty. Later on, he married a Dutch-Jewish woman and moved to Amsterdam.

Dahan observes, “My experiences are like short stories, nothing special, but often based on the fact that I understand Arabic. A few years ago, the sewer in front of our house broke down. The municipality sent workers to repair it. One of them was an Arab. When I passed, I spoke to him in Arabic. I asked him whether he wanted a cup of coffee. I brought it to him.

[Nachum]

It would appear that the shame over the slaughter in WWII has worn off. Evil is free to bare its soul.

[Pecos]

Some people never felt shame for their deadly hatred.

[cripplecreek]

Juden Raus (Jews out) is a hideous and infamous propaganda board game created by the Nazis in 1936 and given to as many kids as possible, the object being to take control of Jews wearing pointy hats and get them off the board and outside the walled city as quickly as possible by way of a dice throw.



BTW, I see by way of TheBlaze that the Raelians are back and flying banners of the Star of David mixed with the Swastika. They say they're trying to repatriate the swastika.

[dfwgator]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana

[Owl558]

“Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him” —Me