Decoy Jews, new weapon against anti-Semitism

Anti- Semitic incidents in Germany and the Netherlands have brought up different solutions. Some well known, some much more creative.

The German police last saturday chose not to act at all against a group of Muslim youngsters, afraid that any action on their behalf would only cause more violence. During an outdoor performance of a Jewish dance company in the city of Hannover, the Muslims had thrown a rain of stones on the group, shouting “Juden raus“.

The performance was immediately aborted and a day later two teenagers were arrested. They were part of a group of Libanese, Iranian en Palestinian Germans. According to the police, the violence is strongly related to the tensions in the middle East, especially between Israel and its neighbouring countries.

On several occasions, German Muslims  have used the very same anti-Semitic slogans the country remembers from the 1930’s. German politicians have expressed their concern, but no new solutions have been brought up.

That’s different in the small neighbour country the Netherlands, where the same kind of problems have arisen recently. To cope with them, Dutch parliament has asked for the deployment of nothing less than decoy Jews.

The rather unorthodox measure was asked for after a hidden-camera video showing Jews being harassed on the street in a Moroccan neighborhood of Amsterdam, had been broadcasted on public television. Undercover police officers wearing yarmulkes would have to provoke hate crimes against Jews.

Although discussion is still going on whether this would really help solving the problem, it is not the first time this kind of measure is considered in the Netherlands. Not long ago ago decoy gays were used to take care of violence against homosexuals.