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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Prominent Jews Leave Amsterdam over Anti-Semitism

British Blogs
Arutz Sheva 20 December 2010 

By Maayana Miskin
A son of a prominent rabbi in the Netherlands has announced plans to move to Israel due to anti-Semitism. Benzion Evers, son of well-known Dutch rabbi Raphael Evers, told De Telegraaf that he feels “suffocated and caged” in his home country due to anti-Jewish sentiment.
“I'm fed up with the verbal abuse and the streetfighting,” he told Het Parool, another Dutch paper.
“It's not that you can't leave the house, but you need to constantly hide, to be careful,” he explained. He related his own cautionary measures, which include avoiding certain neighborhoods, and hiding his kippah (yalmulke) when walking through areas with a high number of Muslim immigrants (...)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/141230

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