ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses antisemitism amongst Muslims and Islamophobia amongst Jews since the late 1980s in the UK, including London, and the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, as well as its effects upon Jewish-Muslim relations. A description and analysis of these phenomena is followed by the responses to them by Jews and Muslims, in public opinion, by Jewish and Muslim institutions and by British and Dutch governments. This reveals some striking differences. What stands out is, for instance, that cooperation in the field of community-based monitoring and combating of these forms of hate crime is much more intensive in the UK than in the Netherlands. Furthermore, there are salient differences between the approach of the British and Dutch authorities to antisemitism and Islamophobia. While the British authorities adopt a more ‘universalist’ approach, the Dutch authorities take a more ‘particularist’ approach, which has a negative impact on Jewish-Muslim relations.
