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 […]
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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 MoreThe 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 MoreCluster 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 MoreAn 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 MoreAddicted 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 MoreIdentity? 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 MoreWir 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 MoreAre 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 MoreJoin 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 […]
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