(JTA) UTRECHT, Netherlands (JTA) — To the dozens of revelers of this city’s main Purim party, a Jewish grandmother who cooks the event’s annual Persia-themed holiday feast is a rare communal asset. Since she immigrated to the Netherlands in 2012 from her native Iran, the soft-spoken newcomer has been volunteering with the local Chabad House,…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Police in the Netherlands are investigating vandalism at a synagogue and a hospice for people dying of terminal diseases. The incident at the Immanuel Hospice occurred on Jan. 2, the AT5 television channel reported Wednesday. A man wearing a sports jacket dislodged and stole two security cameras in the early hours of…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The man whom Dutch police released hours after he attacked a kosher restaurant while waving a Palestinian flag reportedly is a Damascus-born ex-combatant in Syria’s civil war. GeenStijl reported Wednesday that the perpetrator of the Dec. 7 assault in southern Amsterdam is Saleh Ali, who has said that he participated in the…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A major coalition party in the Netherlands blamed President Trump for an assault against a kosher restaurant by a man carrying a Palestinian flag. A spokesperson for the left-leaning Democrats 66 party made the accusation Thursday, hours after the assault on the HaCarmel restaurant, which some see as a reaction to Trump’s…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — An organization that allocates European funding to Palestinian human rights groups boasted of initiating war crimes charges in Britain against Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister. The Ramallah-based Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat — a platform created by the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland – noted in its 2016 annual…
(JTA) — Calling Israeli children “Zionist terrorists in training” and “future child murderers and occupiers” does not constitute incitement to hate, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said. The Service decided Wednesday to not prosecute Abdoe Khoulani, a lawmaker in the city council of The Hague, on the basis of a criminal complaint filed against him over statements he…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Soccer fans in the Netherlands used a picture of child victims of the Holocaust to taunt a rival team, in what Dutch activists against racism called a new low for anti-Semitic rhetoric in sports. The photo featuring two toddlers wearing a yellow star was widely circulated on Twitter under the hashtag #anti020week….
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch Justice Ministry employee who was suspended and threatened with termination for saying that Zionists invented the Islamic State terrorist group can sue for damages, a judge ruled. Yasmina Haifi, a former senior cybersecurity specialist, was “too harshly punished” for making a statement that is protected by freedom of speech, according…
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