Anti-semitic stereotypes in Dutch paper spark anger

17.01.2012                      22.Tewet. 5772

Niederlande:

Anti-semitic stereotypes in Dutch paper spark anger

"The chosen people have to be perfect", wrote journalist Ilse van Heusden of childbirth in Israel’s health care system.

An early January article in the Dutch daily Trouw sparked criticism in Israel and the Netherlands because the journalist invoked allegedly stereotypical anti-Jewish views and compared the process of giving birth in Israel’s health care system to military combat.
Writing in Trouw, or “allegiance”, about the birth of her child in Israel, Dutch journalist Ilse van Heusden titled her article “The chosen people have to be perfect”….