Earlier today I posted a piece in Times of Israel on today's anti-semitism. Now that it is all out in the open, the debate is who is mostly to blame?
As a timely addition to that, I am posting this piece from the Dutch outlet, Dagelijkse Standaard, which addresses this question in the Netherlands. It places the blame mostly on the left, largely on the Muslim community, and refutes claims by others that it is the right and people like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party that are responsible for anti-semitism.
Translation by Fousesquawk.
https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2018/12/nu-bewezen-links-veroorzaakt-drie-keer-meer-antisemitisme-dan-rechts/
Now Proven: The Left Causes Three Times More Anti-Semitism Than the Right
Last Monday a report was published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights which shows that anti-Semitism in Europe has increased enormously, and that left-wing agitators are the main culprits. That is why 38% of European Jews are already considering emigration.
Around 38% of all Jews in Europe are considering emigrating. In a response on Twitter, Jan Tervoort, working as a guide in Amsterdam, stated that Likud is heavily responsible for this. He wrote: "Anti-Semitism is indeed increasing, unfortunately, not least on the new right wing that Paternotte [from ThePostOnline] and Likud cultivate."
This claim, in which he tries to blame the right for the current anti-Semitism, is rubbish. On the contrary, this study shows that 35% of the anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands come from Muslims (most of them ignored by the left) and 18% from the left. Much less comes from the right, 6%, and 5% from the Christian side (for the rest, it is not clear from which conviction it comes).
The left tries to blame the right as the cause of anti-Semitism, but the facts show that the left itself is guilty three times as often. Muslims even six times as much. But that is something you won't hear from the politically correct media.
However, that is not the only bad thing about his tweet. We have repeatedly pointed out to Mr Tervoort with tweets that it is anti-Semitic to accuse Jews of being the cause of anti-Semitism: after all, It is Jew haters who are guilty of anti-Semitism, not the Jews themselves. The opposite claim - 'blaming the victim' - has a long history with Jew- haters, for example with the Nazis.
Nevertheless, he maintained his claim for a day. Then he suddenly changed. Probably, he realized that he had , indeed, made an anti-semitic claim or someone had made him aware. That he cannor afford. (see below). He apologized for his statement because he wouldn't have known that Likud is made up of Jews! That is pretty commonly known, you would say certainly of Likud Israel. From the Dutch representation, that is, therefore, to be expected. Naturally, that is also clearly stated on the Likud Netherlands website.
When we asked how it could be that he did not know this, he wrote "that he has no time for marginal clubs" . So one day in his eyes we were an important factor in the increase in anti-Semitism, one day and a half later we were suddenly marginal.
But it can be even crazier: Jan Tervoort is also the author of an article that "demonstrates" that according to the international definition of anti-Semitism, Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu, would be a Holocaust-trivializing anti-Semite . Now you will probably think: Okay, this man is totally unbelievable, but how fascinating is that?
That seems interesting. You probably didn't know Jan Verkoort yet, but (you know) Dries van Agt. That is the man whose mouth is full over alleged Israeli "violations of human rights", but who, as a minister, worked hard to release Nazi war criminals. He also, according to various statements, gave a personal order as (justice) minister to kill Moluccan train hijackers who had already been disarmed.
Van Agt, therefore, based on his obsessive negative fixation on Israel, has established a lobby (organization) The Rights Forum, and what is the case? Jan Tervoort is (its) most important writer. Of the last six opinion articles on their homepage , no fewer than four are from his hand, including his article about 'the anti-Semite Netanyahu'. Jan Tervoort is Van Agt's expert in the field of anti-Semitism! It indicates that the disinformation of The Rights Forum is only suitable for the paper bin.
And the real facts? See the table of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights above. With that, everything is said.
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