Anti-Semitism: Holland Proposes Using 'Decoys' in the Fight Against Rising Anti-Semitism

How bad has the situation actually gotten when the Dutch police consider using 'decoys' to fight rising anti-semitism??  Check this out from the AP via FoxNews (emphasis added):

Dutch May Use 'Decoy Jews' to Fight Rising Anti-Semitism

AMSTERDAM -- 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.

"For ten years now Jews who are recognizable as such from their clothing can't walk peacefully on the street," the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Jewish activist group, said in a statement Friday. "The perpetrators of this kind of incident almost always get away unpunished."

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.
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Recent press reports have claimed that anti-Semitism is on the rise in the Netherlands due to increasing friction with the country's Muslim minority, which now makes up 6 percent of the population.

But Hirsch Ballin told parliament -- in a debate prompted by the video -- that "anti-Semitism is not on the rise," citing government statistics from the first months of 2010.

"The number of incidents rises and falls, and is connected to tensions in the Middle East," he said.

The number of anti-Semitic discrimination cases in Amsterdam did rise in 2009 from the previous year, according to the country's anti-discrimination bureau, from 17 to 41. Discrimination cases on the basis of skin color or country of origin rose from 232 to 336 in the same period.
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Hirsch Ballin's spokesman, Wim van der Weegen, said that other measures, such as increased camera surveillance on some streets, might be a more effective way of registering incidents.

But Van der Weegen said the justice minister believed using decoy Jews would be within the boundaries of the law.

"It would be impossible to say that wearing a yarmulke amounts to entrapment," he said.

I bet if Holland had its equivalent of our ACLU, there would be a fight over that "yarmulke-entrapment" issue.

Here is further information regarding that 2009 increase in, which was worldwide and not just an isolated surge in Holland (emphasis added):

A report released in April by a university-based group in Tel Aviv, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, agreed that street-level anti-Semitism seems to rise around the world when the Israeli government does something unpopular. A “visibly Jewish” man told the institute’s researchers that “when an Israeli military operation dominates the headline, I am the first to notice it on the streets.”

But the report also argued — without citing much evidence — that the rash of attacks in 2009 was somewhat organized: “The intensity and nature of the wave that began in January 2009 testified to pre-planned mobilization among radicals from the left and among Muslim immigrant communities.” Hamas leaders also claimed a level of organization. During the Gaza War the Times of London reported, “a hard-line Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world,” to avenge Palestinian deaths.  [source]

"... among radicals from the left ..." -- in March, Gary Bauer at Human Events wrote about rising anti-semitism on the Left:

In 2006, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a Campus Anti-Semitism report announcing that anti-Semitism is “a serious problem” on many American university campuses, those bastions of political liberalism.

Anti-Semitism has become a staple of bloggers on leftwing websites like the Huffington Post, the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org. Former Clinton administration official Lanny Davis wrote in the Wall Street Journal of his dismay at the anti-Semitic “hate and vitriol” against Joe Lieberman, for whom Davis was campaigning, in his 2006 primary campaign against Ned Lamont. Davis recounted some of the attacks, and concluded that “bigotry and hate aren’t just for right-wingers anymore.”

The Left’s growing anti-Semitism is discouraging in part because the party many radicals associate with has been home to Jews for nearly a century. And Democrats have historically been some of Israel’s greatest defenders. 

The "tolerant" Left growing increasingly intolerant of many and, in particular, of Jews.

Again, I ask: How bad have things gotten when police consider using "Jew decoys?"