Saturday, June 11, 2016

Dutch High School Grads Sing "Jews Burn Best;" Rabbi Calls for Punishing Singers for Hate Crime

Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs called on authorities to identify and punish high school students who during their graduation ceremony sang about burning Jews, another indication that anti-Semitism continues to pervade much of Europe, the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) website reports today (June 11, 2016).

The incident happened last week during the graduation gala of the Elde College in the Dutch town of Schijndel, about 70 miles southeast of Amsterdam.

As they approached the party, several graduates sang: "Together we'll burn Jews, because Jews burn the  best."

The student body and organizing committee of the Elde College gala expressed their sincere apologies for the incident, but Jacobs said the guilty parties "must be prosecuted for hate speech." Jacobs added, the frequency of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the Netherlands "means Dutch Jews are less inclined to report hate crimes, when they occur around them all the time."

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