Tackling online anti-Semitism is more “necessary than ever” said the CIDI, which has long monitored anti-Semitism in the Netherlands. This conclusion was drawn after the publication of a report by the investigative bureau Kantar into the extent of Jew-hatred on the Internet in 2019, reported Dutch daily De Dagelijkse Standaard.
On as many as 286 Dutch websites anti-Semitic utterances are found, which vary from remarks that the September 11 attacks were carried out by Zionists, to Frans Timmerman being a puppet of the Jews, to the “Jewish lobby”, which is behind all kinds of sinister developments.
Anti-Semitism is also rampant on Twitter and CIDI, and Kantar found some 750 tweets in which Jews were attacked because of their origin.
The websites are mostly aimed at inhabitants with a migration background. On the Internet pages that have a lot of “incidental anti-Semitism”, Dutchturks.nl tops the list. Aside from some consumer websites, Hababam.nl can also be found in the top ten — this site calls itself the “virtual house of Turkey”.
The web pages of Moroccan-Dutch Maroc.nl (“the oldest online forum for Moroccans in the Netherlands and Flanders”) contained no fewer than 85 anti-Semitic slurs, followed by forums.marokko (“the largest Moroccan web community in the world”) with 53 such comments.
The CIDI complained that “much of the most disgusting anti-Semitic content that we found is still on the Internet”. However, the watchdog is positive about the future. “CIDI expresses the hope that the National Coordinator for Combating Anti-Semitism, launched last week by Parliament, will work on this with CIDI and the judiciary.”
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