Monthly Archive: July 2010

Anti-semitism, Homophobia and Islamophobia in the Netherlands 1

Anti-semitism, Homophobia and Islamophobia in the Netherlands

Recently there are reports, again, about rising anti-semitism among Moroccan-Dutch youth. There has been talk about using ‘decoy-jews’ (lokjoden in Dutch) as to expose and arrest violent youth who according to some seem to think that anti-semitism has become socially acceptable. The police is also talking about using ‘decoy-gays’ in response to, apparently, also rising homophobia in Dutch society. In particular Moroccan-Dutch migrant youth are labelled as the perpetrators of these violence, while at the same there is some noise among migrant youth why violence against them receives less attention.