Tag: Netherlands
Amsterdam mayor walks back ‘pogrom’ label for assaults
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema on Sunday appeared to retract her use of the word “pogrom” in connection with the mass assaults by Arabs on Israelis in her city on Nov. 7.
Halsema, a former leader...
‘Sorry, sir, we are unable to help you right now’
Before I left for this trip to see Maccabi Tel Aviv play in Amsterdam—the month before I will be starting my service in the Israel Defense Forces—I couldn’t have imagined that it would make...
Following pogrom, Dutch rabbi calls on Jews to make aliyah
An Orthodox rabbi from the Netherlands has called on the country’s Jews to immigrate to Israel following mass antisemitic assaults in Amsterdam, accusing Dutch authorities of failure to address the root causes of the...
The echo of broken glass from Amsterdam
I am horrified and outraged by the antisemitic attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam.
The events in Amsterdam last week mark a dark moment for European Jewry and demand our immediate attention. Jews were...
The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism
Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, it didn’t take long for some in the media and on the anti-Israel left to try to flip the...
U of Amsterdam releases list of Israeli research partners
Lawmakers in the Netherlands are furious over the University of Amsterdam’s decision to release a list of Israeli research partners in an attempt to appease violent pro-Palestinian rioters.
MP Claire Martens-America of the ruling People’s...
Israeli embassy in The Hague firebombed; no injuries
Israel’s embassy in the Netherlands was firebombed on Thursday, weeks after Dutch police warned of a “serious threat” to the diplomatic mission.
Police in The Hague said that one suspect threw a “burning object” at...
Netanyahu to Dutch PM: Rafah op essential to defeating Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in Jerusalem on Wednesday, for their fourth tête-à-tête since the outbreak of the war against Hamas.
Netanyahu emphasized that the prospective IDF operation in...
Dutch minister who financed Palestinian terror to speak at Kristallnacht commemoration
Jewish communal leaders in the Netherlands are facing tough questions after inviting to the country's annual Kristallnacht commemoration a government minister who sent millions of euros to a terror-linked Palestinian nonprofit.
Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag, who...
Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Netherlands, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 85.
Vorst was born in 1938, the son of the chief rabbi of Rotterdam....