“It’s a very heavy feeling that this thing can happen here in 2018.”
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“Restaurant owner evicts Dutch Jewish community from synagogue,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, July 30, 2018:
DEVENTER, Netherlands (JTA) — The Jewish community of this Dutch city was evicted Monday from its former synagogue in what members said was the first such occurrence in years in the kingdom.
Members of Beth Shoshanna, a Masorti/Conservative Jewish congregation of approximately 30 people, packed up and loaded into a van their Torah scroll and other scripture, as well as other items used for worship and furniture. The move followed a legal fight against the building’s new owners, who are seeking to turn it into a restaurant.
“It’s a very heavy feeling that this thing can happen here in 2018,” said Tom Furstenberg, the community’s chairman.
His community had been told to move out by the office of Ayhan Sahin, a Dutch-Turkish developer and owner of several eateries, who in January bought the building housing the Great Synagogue of Deventer with a partner. Last week, the city blocked his plan to open an eatery in the 125-year-old synagogue. But as the owners, Sahin and his associate can still determine who has access to the building and have asked the congregation to move out, according to Sanne Terlouw, a member of the congregation.
The community has found a new home in the nearby municipality of Raalte.
“We will continue. But this means the end of centuries of Jewish life in Deventer itself,” Terlouw said….
Loison Helmer says
Shame on the Netherlands! Once protectors of the Jews, Pilgrims, and other Protestants. Home of Erasmus writer of the renaissance and reformation. Home of William of Orange who fought the Spanish and others to free the Netherlands from tyranny. Shame!!
Angry Aussie says
The Netherlands didn’t do it, the owner of the building did.
remember Lepanto! says
It is not widely known in the Netherlands (where I live) that the owner is a mohamedan. This is mostly hushed up by the press. I could only tell when I read his name.
brenrod says
the best approach is to ban muslim immigration and deport all muslims
J D S says
Correct me if I’m mistaken but Apparently the NEW OWNER of this building, that was being used as as synagogue, is a muslim!
If in fact the Restraint owner is muslim, a lesson can be learned here…Unless FORCED to by the government…Never sell property to a muslim.
In the future how many in the U.S. are going to be sorry they did sell.
b.a. freeman says
any reasonable owner, once the restaurant shot down by the city, would have allowed his tenants to stay put, at least until they actually got a restaurant license, but *these* tenants are special. because they are jews, they are to be hated, hunted, and killed if possible at every turn. he can’t kill them (yet), and he can’t open a restaurant, but it’s his property, so he’s doing the best that he can by throwing out the “filthy jews.”
i don’t live in eurabia, and i will *never* visit (at least until the islamic infestation ends), but if i were unfortunate enough to live in deventer, i would go out of my way to *not* deal with any establishment owned in whole or in part by that monster. the netherlands once tried to protect jews from nazis, but now their government is *run* by nazis, and they’re busy turning their backs on jews.
sieg heil!
mortimer says
Agree, this is nothing but anti-Semitism.
The old Nazis were KICKED OUT OF NETHERLANDS BY SOME VERY BRAVE ALLIED SOLDIERS WHO PAID FOR DUTCH FREEDOM WITH THEIR BLOOD.
The NAZI REPLACEMENTS have been IMPORTED!
What would Anne Frank say about this?
brenrod says
by american soldiers
Susan B says
Many Canadian soldiers died defending Holland in both WWs. Hate to think it was all for naught.
Howard Moskowitz says
Sadly…Holland ‘lost’ 95% of its Jews. Why?
Frank Anderson says
H.M. I think we both compare Holland with Denmark, where not 1 single Jew out of 8,000 died in German hands. Four hundred died from age and infirmity n the few days it took to make papers and evacuate the Jewish population The King of Denmark put on a Star of David and told the Germans, “There are only Danes here.”: God be praised for something good to remember in that horror.
gravenimage says
Yes, Frank–Denmark is a shining example–one of the few good stories to come out of the Holocaust.
Some of the logistics did make this a bit easier, such as most of the Jewish population living right in Copenhagen and Denmark having fairly easy access to Sweden and safety for the Jewish population.
But the main factor was goodness and will–huge coordination between the Danish and Swedish authorities, the Swedish Jewish community, the Danish Jewish community, and hundreds of fishing boat and commercial craft owners.
And not a single betrayal to the Nazis, which would have been all it would have taken to destroy the whole rescue operation.
I wish this brave episode were better known today. Thanks so much for mentioning it.
gravenimage says
Netherlands: Muslim building owner evicts Jewish community from synagogue to open a restaurant
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This is terrible.
Without in way blaming the victims, I have to ask who was so foolish as to sell a Synagogue to Muslims?
Zimriel says
My guess is that the Deventer congregation was never powerful nor numerous, and had never owned the property or else had lost it to the Dutch. Certainly over 1940-45 I can’t see how a synagogue could have enforced title to this property.
In many cases those titles were restored after the occupation – I think even that monumental synagogue in Vilno is being restored – but perhaps the Deventer congregation was too small and/or didn’t hold the title at the time.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’m not sure how they lost the title to a Mohammedan.
kangi_yotaka says
https://www.timesofisrael.com/restaurant-owner-evicts-dutch-jewish-community-from-synagogue/
“The synagogue on Gol Street, a tall building in the neo-Moorish style, was built in 1892. Of the 590 people who in 1942 were registered as Jewish residents of Deventer, 401 were murdered in the Holocaust. The depleted community could not afford the building’s upkeep and sold it in 1951 to a Christian church group, which installed a massive pipe organ in the spacious interior.
In 2010, Beth Shoshanna got permission from the church group to use the space as a synagogue. The Jewish congregation installed a Torah ark and scroll, and held regular services there until the sale. Attempts to raise enough funds to buy the synagogue from the church did not succeed.”
Kay says
So sad.
gravenimage says
Thanks you so much for this background, kangi_yotaka. Tragic.
gravenimage says
The congregation is trying to raise money to save the Synagogue here:
http://bethshoshanna.nl/english
Donate if you have the means.
Susan B says
In many ways I am so sad about the country of my birth. The Netherlands has betrayed all the western soldiers who died to save it from Nazism and now the government embraces the Nazism of islam.
jayell says
The local authority blocked this muslim builder’s bid to turn the synagogue.into a restaurant, making it clear what the official feeling was on the matter, yet the muslim apparently just pushed on regardless using a legal loophole. This is not likely to make many friends for the muslim builder apart from amongst his own friends but is he bothered? No doubt not where it concerns the local kuffar.
Slightly different country, different context, but similar situation – a player of Turkish (muslim) heritage in the German national soccer team has had a hissy fit and resigned because he says he ‘no longer feels welcome in Germany’. Result? Big fuss, and Erdogan (how the hell is it HIS business?) pokes his nose in to berate Germany for its ‘racism’ (no doubt he would have kept his mouth shut if another player was concerned). So if a Turkish muslim behaves like a pig towards the locals, that’s OK. If a Turkish muslim has his delicate feelings hurt by the locals, we have an international incident!
roger standen says
This is sad news. Deventer was where Etty Hillesum was born.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Roger. Here’s more on this brave woman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etty_Hillesum
Chantell says
I would also like to know why the previous owner decided to sell the building in the first place-Especially to a Muslim.
Janette Wells says
Good point. If I owned a Church building I would neither sell or rent any part of it to an Islamic company.
gravenimage says
+1
R Russell says
Let them make Aliyah and take their wealth with them. No more taxes.
If the Netherlands allows this to happens, they can manage without the Jews’ wealth.
gravenimage says
Jews have lived in the Netherlands for centuries–they should not *have* to go.
Frank Anderson says
GI, please think about what staying in Nazi Germany got for the half of German Jews that thought that way. With the bent toward collaboration in Holland during WWII and being displayed now with the muslim invasion, it seems to me that escape is the better choice.
Frank Anderson says
As unpleasant and disagreeable as this situation is to me, I have to accept that one of the basic rights of ownership of property is to decide how it is used. If the combined wealth of the congregation is too small to bear its costs, and others are not willing and able to make up the difference, this happens. Muslims flood in, take over, and all infidels are run out, until someone finds a way to resist.
The irony of US liberal Judaism sucking up to islam is as hard for me to accept as it is to explain, to myself or others. Many organizations are having to make economic decisions to reduce their expenses to match their declining resources. The question is among all of them that I know, how do they attract and retain members with activities and purposes to motivate participation. Demography has the last word, like Mother Nature.
gravenimage says
True, Frank. But this Jewish congregation lost control of their Synagogue after the Holocaust–certainly extraordinary circumstances. I hope their attempts to raise money are successful.
Frank Anderson says
*So do I* One of the things taught almost 2,000 years ago by the destruction of the Temple is that God is everywhere, and can be found anywhere. Torah scrolls are quite mobile and can be read with joy that God hears the prayers. Unlike the god of death and slavery, The God of Life and Liberty smiles at the joy and freedom of his Children.
Hari Singh says
It may be harsh, but people get evicted all the time. The reason was not stated. A congregation of only 30 people might have financial problems.It always better to buy than to rent.
But nothing in the way of consideration could be expected from a Muslim landlord, he was true to the nature of many Muslims formed by the Shariat.
kangi_yotaka says
The Jews owned the building until the community was destroyed in the Holocaust. It was sold to a Christian Church in 1951 because the community was too small.
In 2010, the congregation got permission from the church to hold services there.
Given that islam considers anything once owned by muslims to be permanently owned by muslims, I think the Jewish community should state turnabout is fair play; they owned it once, so it’s theirs in perpetuity.
gravenimage says
Thank you again.
EXHATEISLAM says
I just cried and my heart is bleeding for these people.
infidel says
What was the point in bringing this mad Muslims into this great country in the first place!!! There is NOTHING to be gained from Muslims…
Frank Anderson says
Infidel, there is a point if you wish to destroy the country so you can take over and make it into your kind of “paradise”. Look at Russia becoming the Soviet Union, China into the “People’s Republic”, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam. . .Communists have murdered between 5 and 10 times as many people as Hitler; yet Hitler is the “most evil person ever:. Islam has murdered in 1400 years more or less 300,000,000, estimated by one commenter to be 500 per day for 1400 years and rising daily. As long as Communism has existed, it has created chaos in order to promote its goal of social disorder leading to its takeover. Islam to the Communists, whether they hide behind a smokescreen of labels, such as progressive, liberal, socialist, Antifa, or whatever, is nothing but a convenient tool that will bite them in the end quite like Nazism did in Germany.
Susan B says
Frank, a correction, islam has slaughtered close to a billion people depending on sources. Most sources leave out India and the numbers are huge; around 400 million Hindus slaughtered by the religion of peace.
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/islamic-invasion-of-india-the-greatest-genocide-in-history/
Frank Anderson says
Thank you. I would not doubt or challenge any estimate. Whatever the number, it beats all others and should be widely recognized in routine conversation. It is not GWB’s “religion of peace”. It is a “religion” of murder, slavery, violence and oppression. Its followers live only to die and kill while making the rest of us miserable. How that qualifies for protection as a religion under the law mystifies me; “The knowledge of one is the knowledge of all; The acts of one are the acts of all.”
Frank Anderson says
BY THE NUMBERS:
There are 365.25 days in a year. That is why leap years are necessary.
1400 years is 511,350 days or 12,272,400 hours. If islam has killed a billion people in 1400 years that is 81.48 per hour 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365.25 days per year, or almost 3 deaths every 2 minutes continuously for 1400 years. “Religion of peace”? Does this make effective resistance more urgent?
Thank you for this information.
J.K. says
And no other place in that town could be made available to that small yet brave and historic Congregation? Wow!
Hollandistan in Eurabia: your demise is your own fault!
Robert_k says
It seems that those who betrayed Ann Frank betrayed the Deventer Synagogue. Perhaps it is fitting that a Europe made Judenrein should be replaced by an Islamic Hijra.
Sonofapreacherman says
Only one thing to say . Imagine the public outcry if it was a Jewish business man buying a mosque and evicting the tenants to open a restaurant. Yo’do be hearing about it on the BBC, CBC, CAN etc …
gravenimage says
Spot on, Sonofapreacherman.
Jimmy Ibn Musa says
Well, the new Dutch people are all pro muslims ….did you ever go to walk in Amsterdam, Rotterdam or any other dutch city????full of arabs…the new EURABIA….and they were 95% collaborators with the Germans
eduardo odraude says
The Dutch have been famous for their tolerance. The problem is that there tolerance has been a bit too indiscriminate. You can’t tolerate even that which is determined to destroy tolerance and substitute a totalitarian monoculture (Islam).
eduardo odraude says
their tolerance
not
there tolerance
gravenimage says
Spot on, Eduardo.
eduardo odraude says
I don’t entirely get this article being posted here. I boycott businesses owned by Muslims, as I would boycott businesses owned by Stalinists or Nazis. But if you own a building and you want to evict your current tenants and start a restaurant there, there is nothing especially sinister in that act alone.
There may well be Islamic supremacism behind the landlord’s actions, but all we know from the story is that he wanted to set up a restaurant and he already owns some restaurants.
Islam is supremacist, but according to Robert Spencer and David Wood, many Muslims don’t know much about Islam. Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day in the Qur’an’s Arabic, which not that many Muslims understand. Spencer tells the story of a man who had memorized the whole Qur’an and who then said, “One day I’m going to get a translation and see what it says.”
Susan B says
Eduardo,
“Spencer tells the story of a man who had memorized the whole Qur’an and who then said, “One day I’m going to get a translation and see what it says.””
That quote, sums up a good portion of the muslim world, mindless repetition, no knowledge. Sadly, many mohammedans have no idea how evil their books are. That is why truth and exposure is a great weapon against the death cult.
gravenimage says
This Mohammedan certainly knows enough about Islam to target Jews.