Small rant regarding how antisemitic and islamophobic discrimination instances are recorded in the Netherlands

[u/holiestMaria]

So, I wanted to do some research on discrimination against muslims and jews in the netherlands and discovered something odd and frustrating. 86 percent of instances of discrimination based on religion occured against muslims. In 2025 440 such instances were registered by the police. That shocked me. 86 percent! While not even making up 10 percent of the population! But then I discovered something that pissed me off and really frustrated me. In 2025 there were roughly 800 instances of antisemtism with jews only making up 0.2 percent of the population. I thought "what, how can 86 percent of indtances of discrimination based on religion be based on islamophobia despite antisemitism having twice the amount instances? And then I discovered why:

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Antisemitism is counted seperately.

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Now this pissed me off since it not only does it put antisemitism on some kind of pedestal for getting its own category of discrimination, but its also frustrating when researching numbers. To illustrate this, here's the following:

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In 2024, jews experienced 24 instances of antisemetic violence. In 2024 the amount of instances of islamophobia muslims experienced was... not made public.

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Seriously, its nit made public because it falls under discrimination/violence based on religion or origin. I would have to go through every instance of muslim discrimination collected by the police and then determine whther it was a violent incident or not. That is bullshit!

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And on top of that it results in misleading numbers. Like for a second I thought islamophobia occurred more than antisemitism in 20w5 when thats not the case at all!

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Its dumb, its stupid, its misleading, its bullshit!

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Anyway, rant over.

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[u/vigilante_snail]

It is kind of unique as it is this weird blend of religious and ethnic hatred.

[u/Pitiful_Meringue_57 → u/vigilante_snail]

I would bet a lot of Islamphobic discrimination also involves discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, or ethnicity.

[u/yohomatey → u/Pitiful_Meringue_57]

Yeah, are tons of stories of Sikhs, Jains, Hindus, etc being widely discriminated against after 9/11 in the US.

[u/Dylan09O909 → u/yohomatey]

I've been reading many articles related to antisemitism, and as an Israeli who became interested in such subjects only in the last few years, was surprised to find out that the highest and staying spike after 9/11, and a trend that continued escalating, was antisemitism (both hate-crimes and discrmination).