European Jews increasing targets of hate-speech, violence

Pro-Hamas socialist-party MP Harry van Bommel of The Netherlands won't be welcome at the commemoration service for Auschwitz concentration camp victims, taking place on January 25. The Auschwitz Comité said his presence 'would upset elderly survivors'.

The Auschwitz Comité spokesmen said today on Dutch TV that they had 'convinced' the virulent anti-Israel Van Bommel that his pre-announced participation at the Auschwitz commemorative service at the Wertheim Park in Amsterdam on January 25, 'would not be desirable'. Van Bommel has raised public anger in The Netherlands by his calling for 'an intifada against Israel' -- and by leading a Hamas protest meeting where hate-speech chants against Jews such as "Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews Must be Gassed" in Dutch, could be heard in Amsterdam. A leading Amsterdam rabbi Raphael Evers who said his own psychologist-mother Dr. Bloeme Evers-Emden lost her entire family to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, still felt that Van Bommel would be welcome at the Auschwitz commemoration 'if he would distance himself publicly from these hate-speech chants. However he has not done so....' "These chants are now constantly being heard not only against Israel, but against all the Jews worldwide at all these pro-Palestinian demonstrations," Evers said. Van Bommel called for Intifada against Israel Van Bommel, who also denied ever hearing these chants at this demonstration, ' said he'd decided to not attend the commemorative service after all - although he had intended to go at first -- because the controversy over his presence there 'would overshadow the occasion'. Van Bommel has been a virulent anti-Israeli advocate in the Dutch parliament, and has also frequently joined Hamas demonstrators in the past. He had also demanded that the Dutch government must immediately withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. see Amsterdam's chief rabbi said on the Dutch VARA-TV channel today said all these 'pro-Palestinian' demonstrations worldwide, also in Amsterdam, 'have become one big anti-Jewish hate-speech fest in which all Jews worldwide are bombarded with such hate-chants.'

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Auschwitz gas chamber entrance Nr 1. European Jews commemorate the deaths of Europe's Jewry in the gas chambers of this concentration camp next week.

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Rabbi Evers said earlier that he also is personally becoming very frightened by this growing antisemitic hate-speech and the frequent incidents of violence with which Jews are targeted in The Netherlands and indeed the rest of Europe these days. "As an orthodox Jew, I am instantly recognisable. For me, there definitely are no-go areas where I can't go because I will be attacked. That aggression always comes from one specific population segment, and it's referred to as 'dhimmy behaviour.' see The same atmosphere as in early stages of Nazi Germany... He is frequently targeted by violent Muslim youths he said, and police had to rescue him from one such situation on a tram in Amsterdam just recently: "I was on the tram and the aggression started up at once. The police had to be called in to protect me. Another time I got off the tram in 'the wrong neighbourhood'. "Suddenly I was on the street surrounded by unfriendly individuals. That is very threatening. "And it has been getting worse and worse over the past few years, especially whenever Jews are publicly identifiable as Jews (such as I am). One time I became particularly angry when I saw someone carrying a sign warning people not to buy Israeli products. "This increases our fear, and anger. This growing atmosphere of hatred is very much like it was in Germany during the years when Hitler was still gaining in political strength. Such actions, I associate with the actions targeting Jews during the 1930s.' All Jews targeted by hate-chants from Hamas demonstrators: Rabbi Everts also warned on VARA-NP news that all these worldwide 'pro-Palestinian' demonstrations such as the one in Amsterdam, 'have become one big anti-Jewish hate-speech fest in which all Jews worldwide are bombarded with such hate-chants.' As a member of the Conference of European Rabbis and of the Jewish Moroccan Network Amsterdam, he also was aware of the very rapid rise in armed aggression targeting all European Jews over the past few years. He himself is targeted frequently in Amsterdam's streets, he said. It's just like Nazi Germany under Hitler: The record shows that under Hitler before the outbreak of WWII, a boycott of Jewish shops was organized in Germany from April 1, 1933. From then on, laws and regulations were regularly issued that systematically limited Jews’ civil rights and their part in economic life. The law on the reorganization of the civil service led to the dismissal of Jewish employees of the national and local governments; the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 introduced a ban on mixed marriages and tightened the definition of “Jew” in “racial-legal” terms; finally, a series of regulations in late 1938 sanctioned the “Aryanization” (in other words, the confiscation) of Jewish businesses. A plethora of separate rulings deprived Jews of the capacity to work as journalists and artists; the works of Jewish writers were burned publicly, and access to education for Jewish youth was limited. This created the legal framework in which the holocaust could take place with impunity, and with overwhelming public approval by the majority of Germany's voters. see