AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In a country where sex toys are displayed in shop windows and television commercials often feature nudity, a picture of a clothed, heterosexual couple kissing may not seem like the stuff of scandal. But precisely such an image — part of a poster campaign celebrating diversity in the Netherlands — has triggered…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch local politician from The Hague is accused of making misogynistic threats at a woman who criticized his anti-Israel vitriol. The abuse by Abdoe Khoulani of The Hague was recorded by Anneke Brons, whom he called from his cellular phone. “Anneke, go learn how to write Dutch,” Khoulani said earlier this…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Dutch Muslims shouted anti-Semitic slogans amid violent clashes with police over authorities’ refusal to allow a Turkish Cabinet minister to campaign in Holland for a Turkey referendum vote. Dozens of protesters gathered on Saturday night in front of the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam in the Netherlands to listen to Family Minister Fatma Betul…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Citing Arab countries’ bans on allowing in Israelis, the Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders called critics of the U.S. visa ban “hypocrites.” Wilders, whose rightist Party for Freedom has been leading in five major polls conducted this month ahead of the March general elections, on Sunday made the assertion about President Donald Trump’s…
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
Lodewijk Asscher isn’t one to mince words when it comes to hatred on social media. The descendant of Holocaust survivors who is running for prime minister sent a shot across the bow of far right leader Geert Wilders with a 735-word Facebook post titled “Disrespectful Dog.” “Many of you possess a keen historical insight,” Asscher…
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch anti-discrimination group complained to police over a political party whose Muslim founders said Adolf Hitler was Jewish and that homosexuality was a contagious illness. The Bureau Against Discrimination on Wednesday filed the hate speech complaint over the Free Democracy Party, which was established last week ahead of the general parliamentary election scheduled for March,…
AMSTERDAM — Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs urged his country’s government to drop plans to legalize assisted suicide for healthy individuals. Jacobs was reacting to a statement made earlier this week in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch lower house, by the country’s health minister announcing planned legislation designed to broaden existing laws on assisted suicide…
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