(JTA) — WESTERBORK, Netherlands (JTA) — Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team…
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…
Several Dutch parents were dumbfounded on Monday when they discovered in their children’s coloring book a paint-by-letter drawing of Adolf Hitler, making the Nazi salute and wearing an armband with a swastika on his left arm. Photos of the controversial drawing were shared on social media, which prompted Kruidvat, the Dutch retailer that sold the…
(JTA) — They speak different languages and live in different countries. Some of them are strictly observant. Others don’t even keep kosher. Some are Sephardi, others are Ashkenazi. As diverse as the Jewish communities to which they belong, the Jews who promote Europe’s rising nationalistic parties are nonetheless united in their fear of radical Islam,…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch center-right ruling party emerged as the Netherlands’ largest in exit polls from the general elections Wednesday, despite predictions of a major electoral victory for the anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders. Volkskrant Daily exit polls showed Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy receiving 31 seats out of…
(JTA) — A Dutch rapper who sang that he “sits on money like a Jew” and “deports” greedy women defended the text as a “compliment” devoid of any anti-Semitic undertones. Ali Bouali, a best-selling performer of Moroccan descent who is also known in the Netherlands as an activist against discrimination, defended these lines from his…
AMSTERDAM — The incitement conviction of Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-right politician who vowed to ensure his country has fewer Moroccans, will strengthen him electorally, the former leader of Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on racism said. Wilders was convicted on Friday for incitement to discrimination over that 2014 pledge, but the court in Schiphol imposed no…
— Benjamin Netanyahu cleared 20 minutes from the schedule of his visit to the Netherlands to thank the country’s leading Christian Zionist activist and chief rabbi for their support for the Jewish state and its people. The Israeli Prime Minister on Wednesday called Roger van Oordt, director of the Christians for Israel organization. He also…
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