Twenty
eight Dutch tourists arriving in Greece did not fill in their health
declarations in time. In this form the arriving passengers were required to
declare where they had been in the past weeks and whether they had been exposed
to someone who had Corona. These 28 travelers were denied entry and sent home
on the first available flight.
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority has
said that they would fine a store selling wine from the West-Bank city of
Hebron that is labeled as "Made in Israel". The inspectors visited the
Israel Products Center, an importer and retail outfit, operated by the
pro-Israel group Christians for Israel. The head of the Dutch Chief Rabbinate,
rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, accused the Authority of pursuing a double
standard. He said: "Why inspect Israeli products but none from China which
occupies Tibet, or goods from Morocco which occupies Western Sahara, or Turkey
which occupies Northern Cyprus, or Russia which occupies the Crimea."
A bad tempered debate took place in parliament about a
possible Dutch apology for slavery and the Dutch role in the slave trade. Prime
Minister Mark Rutte said that a formal
apology could end up increasing polarization. In the meantime the cabinet has
set up a special committee to look into slavery. During the debate the leader
of the Green Left Party, Jesse Klaver called PVV leader Geert Wilders “an
idiot.” Wilders called Klaver a “political hooligan with party members who
voted for communist mass murderers.: Esther Ouwehand of the Party for the
Animals compared turning a blind eye to racism to racism with conditions in
factory farms.
