“There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas’ and I see a tendency emerging to give in to that. That would truly mark the beginning of the end. I’m concerned about that.”
Officers in the Dutch police force have reportedly been refusing to protect potential Jewish targets amid “moral dilemmas.”
Speaking to Jewish-Dutch weekly Nieuw Israëlisch Weekblad (NIW) on September 29, two veteran police officers now representing the Jewish Police Network, Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, said they were worried about apparent changes in the corps.
“There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas’ and I see a tendency emerging to give in to that. That would truly mark the beginning of the end. I’m concerned about that,” Theeboom said.