4.11.2015. 11:05 |
Amsterdam
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Some fear refugee center planned for Amsterdam’s Jewish heart
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dutch rabbis in the Amsterdam suburb of Buitenveldert, site of a planned center to house migrants from the Middle East. (David Serphos) AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Buitenveldert, a quiet residential area of the Dutch capital, special forces soldiers are watching over a Jewish school from inside unmarked cars.
About half of the Netherlands’ 40,000 Jews live here and in the adjacent suburb of Amstelveen, the only areas of the country with a large and recognizable presence of Jews. The area has six synagogues as well as the community’s main offices, three schools and nearly all its kosher shops. The absence of any major recent assault on Dutch Jews, coupled with government subsidies to secure Jewish neighborhoods and institutions, means life has continued pretty much unchanged here since 2012, when Europe saw the first of several fatal or near-fatal attacks on Jews by Islamists. That’s a marked contrast from France, where many Jews are staying away from kosher supermarkets they used to frequent, and Denmark, where Jews have been advised to take off their yarmulkes near Copenhagen’s Jewish school.
U Buitenveldert, mirnoj rezidencijalnoj čet6vrti u glavnom gradu Nizozemske, specijalne snage gledaju ( iz automobila) sigurnost židovske škole. U toj i susjednoj četvrti Amstelveen živi oko polovina od 20.000 nizozemskih Židova- to j ejedinopodručje u zemlji gdje se pretežno nalaze Židovi. Ima šest sinagoga, glavni ured, tri škole i košer trgovine. Bez večih napada na sigurnost, miran se život nastavio do 2012 kada su u Europi započeli npadi Islamista na Židove.. Tu je bilo različito od Francuske i Danske..
No predstavnici nizozemskih Židova su ovog mjeseca upozorili da će plan da se otvori centar za sirijske i iračke izbjeglice upravo u Amstelveenu mogao narušiti osjećaj sigurnosti zbog poznatog ekstremno negativnog odnosa prema Židovima u Siriji i Iraku. Prema podacima centra za informacije (u Izraelu ) 70 % antisemitskih incidenata u Nizozemskoj je počinjeno od imigranata. Stanovište Židovske zajednice je dodalo i svoj židovski glas polarizirajućoj diskusiji u Nizozemskom društvu o dolasku 15.000 muslimasnih izbjeglica u Nizozemsku, odnosno stotine tisuće u EU., postavlja se pitanje da li su brige za sigurnost zajednicce opravdane.
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