“The terror unleashed by Hamas has amplified and emboldened antisemitic tendencies in society,” writes Islamic scholar Dr. Abdel-Hakim Ourghi on his Facebook page. “These tendencies are not only growing louder, but are also being publicly and visibly articulated.”

There are lines in an interview that strike a deep chord. They expose a reality we would rather not face – too awful for words. In the interview, Ernst Jehoeda uses one such line: “What Hitler failed to accomplish, this society might yet succeed in doing, meaning that more and more Jewish young people will leave.” A Netherlands without a (visible) Jewish community… Unimaginable! Truly unimaginable?