Putin: The Netherlands has a Pedophile Club, Russia Doesn’t

Russian President Vladmir Putin has visited the Netherlands. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte spoke with him on the position of sexual minorities and human rights in Russia. Putin said that sexual minorities are not discriminated against in Russia. He added that the Netherlands has a pedophile club, which Russia doesn’t have and that there is a Christian party in the Netherlands which forbids female parliamentarians. He said that all Russian parties can have female candidates.
www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3422391/2013/04/08/Poetin-Nederland-heeft-pedofielenclub-Rusland-niet.dhtml

Staff of Jails Threaten Strike

The staff of all jails and clinics for prisoners will strike if Deputy Minister Fred Teeven will not start negotiations with them before 18 April on the proposed savings plan. According to the plan, a number of jails may have to close. The trade unions ask that employees have to be involved in negotiations in the plan and alternative work has to be proposed for personnel who lose their jobs. If Teeven doesn’t accept this, there will be a general strike of jail personnel on 25 April.
www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3422624/2013/04/09/Gevangenispersoneel-dreigt-met-staking.dhtml

Municipality to Honor Nazi Soldiers

The official representatives of the municipality of Bronckhorst will honor the fallen soldiers of Nazi Germany buried there on Dutch National Memorial Day, 4 May. This was decided by the municipality. Last year, this was forbidden by a judge. It was overturned by a Higher Court recently. (One may recall that the wartime German army, the Wehrmacht participated in mass executions of Jews and other civilians during the Second World War.)

www.refdag.nl/nieuws/binnenland/bronckhorst_loopt_mee_langs_duits_graf_1_726376

Netherlands Second as Supplier of Jihadists to Syria

The Netherlands is the second European supplier of jihadists to Syria, after the U.K. This results from a one year study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College in London. The project was led by Professor Peter Neumann. European jihadists are between 7 and 11 percent of the total number of foreign jihadists there. In 2012, about 134 British jihadists came to Syria, 107 from the Netherlands, 92 from France, 85 from Belgium, 78 from Denmark and 40 from Germany.
www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/21452904/__Nederland_topleverancier_jihad__.html

Complaints about Child Porn double in Three Years

In 2012, the number of complaints about child porn on Dutch websites was almost 20,000. This was announced by the Monitoring Center Child Porno. Eleven thousand and five hundred of them were punishable by law. Almost 9,700 of them were on Dutch servers. Seventy-six percent of the victims are girls, 15% are boys and most of the remainder was boys and girls together.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3420037/2013/04/04/Veel-meer-meldingen-kinderporno-bij-meldpunt.dhtml

Amsterdam Fined Concentration Camp Survivors after War

It has now become known, more than 65 years after the Second World War that the city of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for tax avoidance when they were in concentration camps or hiding from the Nazis. This was exposed by the daily Het Parool and has been picked up by the Washington Times. Numerous Jewish homes were then confiscated and occupied by Dutch Nazi members. Amsterdam continued with its tax policy even as other municipalities waived their debts.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/2/amsterdam-taxed-fined-holocaust-jews-hiding-and-na/print/

2011: Increase in Major anti-Semitic Incidents

The number of complaints about severe anti-Semitic incidents received by the police has increased from nineteen in 2010 to thirty in 2011. This concerns intentional insults, threats, physical abuse and graffiti on buildings. The total number of anti-Semitic incidents has remained about the same at 2,700. Most concern lesser forms such as name-calling. In most cases, youths between 15 and 19 are suspected of anti-Semitic incidents. This study was done by the Verwey-Jonker Institute on behalf of the Anne Frank Foundation.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3417085/2013/03/28/Meer-zware-antisemitische-incidenten-gemeld.dhtml