They wouldn’t let me compare Gaza to the Japanese internment camps On Wednesday 16 July 2025 I was due to be interviewed by one of the Dutch daily newspapers about 15 August – the anniversary of the day on which we inmates of […]

TRANSLATION IN INDONESIAN: The Book Four Turns in Our Existence Recently the memoirs of my parents, Wim F. Wertheim and Hetty Wertheim-Gijse Weenink, “Four Turns in Our Existence, The Lost Indies, Indonesia Born” (1991), is translated into Indonesian and published by OBOR Publishers in […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim: ‘Racism isn’t just about contempt, but also about jealousy.’ Translation of an interview with Ewoud Butter for the Dutch opinion website and monthly journal De Kanttekening, dated 12 March 2025 Anne-Ruth Wertheim (b. 1934) studied biology at the University of Amsterdam, and […]

The prevailing racism is becoming even more malignant: more distrust and envy, less disdain. Discussions about racism or racial prejudice are still mainly focused on who can and who cannot be called ‘racist.’ The question of what actually constitutes racism is not asked as […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]