Minister of justice Ferdinand Grapperhaus has said in
parliament that the man who attacked with a knife in an Amsterdam market two Jewish
colleagues had antisemitic motifs. This has earlier been denied by the
prosecution and the judges.
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Imam verbally attacks Parliamentary Inquiry Commission
A parliamentary inquiry commission in the Netherlands investigates
the foreign financing of mosques. Imam Suhayb Salam of the alFitrah-mosque in
Utrecht appeared for it and accused the commission of discrimination. He said
to the parliamentarians: the law has given my rights and you are violating
them. He refused to stand and take the oath.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Dutch Train Conductor puts inappropriate Song about Jews on Train Loudspeaker
On a train leaving
at night from Tilburg to Rotterdam burg a train conductor put on a song saying “From
where come the Jews? From Israel, which is far away. Do also super Jews live there?
Do Jews like soccer? As long as they support Ajax.” Ajax is the leading Amsterdam
soccer club. A passenger on that train complained to NS, the National Dutch Railways
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) said that it was
painful and stupid that this happened in a train of the National Railways. “It
is unacceptable.” The NS finally offered
apologies.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Polish Auschwitz Museum Reprimands Dutch Distributor for Selling Nazi Books
The Polish Auschwitz Memorial Museum has called on Amazon
and the Dutch distributor Bol.com to stop immediately with the sale of “hate mongering,
horrible and antisemitic books.” These companies sell books of Nazi war criminals
Heinrich Himmler en Julius Streicher. Bol.com understands the motifs of the
request but has replied that it will not withdraw the books from sale.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Minister: We Should Not Gloss Over Allied Killings of Dutch Citizens
Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice said that he
cannot justify that the authorities remain silent about the mistaken bombardment
on February 22, 1944 by the Allied Forces of the Dutch town of Nijmegen in
which almost 800 civilians were killed.
He said so at the annual memorial for the massacre. He referred to the silence of the government
in London and later governments until the 21st century. He quoted Mark Twain, “The truth hurts. Silence
kills.”
Thursday, February 20, 2020
The financial position of pension funds declines
As share markets decline, the big Dutch pension funds have
problems with covering their long-term commitments. The ABP, the large Dutch pension fund has
only 94 Euro cent for every Euro it owes to employees in future. The ABP says
that this is not only the result of the declining share markets, but also due
to the low interest rates.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Major Growth in Antisemitic Incidents in 2019
The CIDI organization publishes a Monitor of Antisemitic
Incidents every year. In 2019, the
number of antisemitic incidents was 35% higher than the 135 registered in 2018. This is the highest number registered in the
30 years that these statistics have existed.
CIDI says that the anti-Israel demonstrations at Dam Square in Amsterdam
very often lead to antisemitic expressions.
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