The number of complaints about antisemitism in the Netherlands is going down but there has been an increase in physical attacks on Muslims, according to the environment ministry’s latest racial discrimination report.
The monitor looks at trends in discrimination and concludes that attacks on Jews and Muslims vary according to national and international factors, such as the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh by a fundamentalist Muslim.
The results of the report are in sharp contrast to figures published by Israel information centre CIDI last week which claimed a rise in antisemitic incidents.
Cidi said the number of physical attacks had doubled from two in 2008 to four last year. Threatening emails, graffiti and vandalism and swearing account for the bulk of the 167 incidents reported.
