Op-Ed: Nederlands: Harassment of Recognizable Jews

inn ^ | 4/9/13 | staff

[Nachum]

Interview with Netanel S.: "When I came into class, some of the students made hissing noises, imitating the gas of the Nazi extermination camps."

“My parents raised me as a Christian, yet already as a child I had developed an interest in Judaism. When I decided to convert later on, my mother surprisingly revealed to me that her mother told her that she had a Jewish background. There was no proof of this, however.

“In 2005 while vacationing in Israel, I fell ill and was treated by a doctor in an Orthodox school – the Diaspora Yeshiva. Afterwards I decided to stay and learn there for a while, even though I wasn’t officially recognized as Jewish.”

Netanel S. is a young man who was born in Arnhem in the Netherlands. He grew up in a village nearby. He is now a hareidi-religious Jew and has lived in Israel since 2009. He prefers that his last name be kept hidden.

“As a high school junior in Arnhem, I started wearing a skull cap. This caused me problems immediately. When I came into class, some of the students made hissing noises, imitating the gas of the Nazi extermination camps. They also often used the word ‘Jew’ pejoratively in discussions. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict was brought into conversations on many issues. It was mainly Moroccan students who did this, but also Turks and Iraqis.

[Nachum]

Jew-haters of Orange

[publius911]

“As a high school junior in Arnhem, I started wearing a skull cap. This caused me problems immediately. When I came into class, some of the students made hissing noises, imitating the gas of the Nazi extermination camps.

So much for the still classic response from the oldest and the newest germans : "We had no idea!"

Book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, available at Amazon.

[Amberdawn]

Perhaps, if he lives long enough, he might get to see burka clad and bearded muslims be deported back to their slime holes. We can but hope.

[dfwgator]

It was mainly Moroccan students who did this, but also Turks and Iraqis.

These are not the "Ten Boom" type of Dutch we're talking here.

[onyx]

Nowadays, they just consider it acceptable behavior.”

So it begins, AGAIN.