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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Dutch deputy PM: Anti-Semitic abuse keeps me off social media
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe deputy prime minister of the Netherlands says that he has stopped interacting on social media because of anti-Semitic abuse against him.
Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher, who has Jewish ancestors, writes this in a post on Facebook titled “Disrespectful Dog.”
In it, he lists the handles of several Twitter users who used anti-Semitic language against him.
One user wrote: “The Zionist dog Asscher skips UN meeting on racism, not anti-Semitism. The former doesn’t interest him.”
For many users, Asscher wrote, “my Jewish last name is a plausible explanation for my behavior and attitude,” such as simultaneously giving Muslims “too much and too little” attention.
— JTA
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