Overview Racism
The embarrassingly belated acknowledgement of 17 August 1945
The embarrassingly belated acknowledgement of 17 August 1945 Anne-Ruth Wertheim The recognition of the real date of the origin of the Republic of Indonesia has cost the once colonizing Netherlands a lot of headaches. But now that the Netherlands has finally found the courage […]
Read More→From exploitation racism to competition racism
From exploitation racism to competition racism Anne-Ruth Wertheim In this piece I describe how I came to predict in 1993 that in the years to come the prevailing racism would change its character and become more vicious. There would be a shift from exploitation […]
Read More→Two guises of racism, disdain as well as envy
Two guises of racism, disdain as well as envy Anne-Ruth Wertheim Discussions still focus on who can and who cannot be called racist, while the question of what racism actually is, is posed much less and is often fobbed off with vague descriptions in […]
Read More→Unexplainable sounds entered our Japanese internment camp
Unexplainable sounds entered our Japanese internment camp Proclamation of the Republic of Indonesia, August the 17th 1945 Anne-Ruth Wertheim In this article I describe how our family was in the neighborhood when on August the 17th of 1945 the Indonesian independence was proclaimed. My father […]
Read More→A Special Postcard: Speaking out against Concentration Camps, by a Survivor
A special postcard (Note 1) On 18 December 1944 my mother, my sister, my little brother and I were deported to a Japanese internment camp for Jews. By sending him a postcard my mother wanted to notify my father, who had been interned in […]
Read More→Our book is published! ‘Three Jewish Origins, Heijermans’s Ghetto, performed in Odessa in 1906’
Our book is published! ‘Three Jewish Origins, Heijermans’s Ghetto, performed in Odessa in 1906’ In recent years, together with my life companion Rudi Künzel, I have been working on a book about racism and anti-Semitism and that has now been published by Publishing House […]
Read More→Living witness confirms existence of camp for Jews in wartime Indonesia
Living witness confirms existence of camp for Jews in wartime Indonesia July 24, 2013 By GEN OKADA/ Staff Writer A Dutch woman has come forward to confirm that occupying Japanese forces rounded up and placed Jews in Indonesia into a separate internment camp during World […]
Read More→The Indonesian who had stolen opium
When I was in our first Japanese internment camp for about a year, I experienced something that made an immense impression on me. I was nine years old at the time and it has stayed with me all my life. When I was over […]
Read More→Cluster bombs once against Vietnamese people and still in use today
Cluster bombs once against Vietnamese people and still in use today Anne-Ruth Wertheim Such bombs have little effect on military targets such as buildings and vehicles, and are mainly used on human bodies, be they warriors or civilians. On 4 March 1971 our train […]
Read More→An atomic bomb no bigger than a pencil
An atomic bomb no bigger than a pencil Anne-Ruth Wertheim On August 6, 2020, it was 75 years ago that the Americans dropped their first atomic bomb on the inhabitants of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. For a long time it was generally believed […]
Read More→Addicted to Racism: Why Populists Literally get off on Bigotry
Addicted to Racism: Why Populists Literally get off on Bigotry By Anne-Ruth Wertheim Only recently did I realise that people with racist prejudices have something to lose: their short-term delight, the balm for their soul. This is something they have in common with addicts. […]
Read More→Identity? All of us are Combis!
Identity? All of us are Combis! Do you Feel Dutch or Moroccan? Jewish or Not? Anne-Ruth Wertheim discusses why we should refrain from posing the loyalty question. I once belonged to a minority. Most of the people around me had dark skin and I […]
Read More→Wir sind alle Kombis!
Anne-Ruth Wertheim: Wir sind alle Kombis! Gewalt und die Festlegung von Identitäten Dieser Artikel ist eine Übersetzung aus der niederländischen in die deutsche Sprache von Anja Hänsch und Genia Niemeyer. (Der ursprüngliche Artikel erschien am 4. Februar 2006 in der Niederländischen Zeitung ’De Volkskrant’) Fühlst […]
Read More→Are there Echoes of the old Anti-Semitism in today’s Islam-Hatred?
Are there Echoes of the old Anti-Semitism in today’s Islam-Hatred? Anne-Ruth Wertheim: Recently, the head of the Dutch national police Gerard Bouman warned against the poison that was seeping into his organization: Muslims were continually being forced to prove their loyalty. Has Islamophobia really […]
Read More→Join Forces against Islamophobia
Join Forces against Islamophobia On 16 January 2015 in the Nelson Mandela Centre in Amsterdam a meeting took place entitled “Join Forces against Islamophobia’’. During this meeting, organized by The Collective against Islamophobia and Discrimination and EMCEMO (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Migration & Development there […]
Read More→Speech on Crystal Night commemoration Amsterdam, by Anne-Ruth Wertheim
On November the 9th 2013, on Crystal Night* commemoration Amsterdam, Anne-Ruth Wertheim gave this speech: Let’s break down the dividing lines! We never want to allow one part of the population to be attacked again because another part of the population has started thinking […]
Read More→Racism, the Sanctification of Rivalry and the Jealousy Taboo
Racism, the Sanctification of Rivalry and the Jealousy Taboo Anne-Ruth Wertheim On 31 January 2013 Mohamed Rabbae stated on www.Joop.nl that Geert Wilders is not looking for solutions to what he calls ‘The Moroccan Problem’ in Dutch Parliament. He is looking for allies to […]
Read More→Modern-day Racism: A Mixture That Calls for Some Clarification
Modern-day Racism: A Mixture That Calls for Some Clarification Anne-Ruth Wertheim Propagators of modern-day racism, which is often called Islamophobia in an effort to take off the edge, claim that all they are doing is warning people about what they see as the danger […]
Read More→Wilders Lethal Words
Wilders’ Lethal Words Words can incite violence. These are the kind of words Geert Wilders used in the Dutch Parliament, says Anne-Ruth Wertheim. On Wednesday January 21, 2009, the Amsterdam Court decided a court ruling was required on whether Member of Parliament Geert Wilders […]
Read More→