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Reports of increased anti-Semitism and a secret video showing Jews harassed on the street in Amsterdam have prompted Dutch authorities to consider using "decoy Jews" - undercover officers wearing yarmulkes - to combat hate crimes.
No decision has yet been made to use the tactic. But the country's justice minister and Amsterdam's acting mayor both say they are considering it. And advocacy groups say intimidation has become a serious issue for Jews in the Netherlands.
Now normally I wouldn't post this kind of crap, but a line in the story caught my attention:
The issue was given new impetus with the airing on television last week of a hidden-camera video produced by Joodse Omroep, or Jewish Broadcaster - a small television company that gets an allotted amount of airtime each week on public TV stations.
For the video, two youths and a Rabbi wearing yarmulkes went walking in a primarily Moroccan neighborhood in Amsterdam. The footage showed them being subjected to a range of ill-treatment, from dirty looks to insults - and even, from one man, a Nazi salute.
Really? Seriously? Does the Dutch police have nothing better to do than go hunt down people who are giving "dirty looks" and throwing "insults"?

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