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U of Amsterdam releases list of Israeli research partners

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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

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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

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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...
Then-Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag (right) meets Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in The Hague, May 15, 2019. Credit: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dutch minister who financed Palestinian terror to speak at Kristallnacht commemoration

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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 Moshe Yitzchak Vorst. Source: YouTube.

Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85

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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....
Dutch Jews at the Mauthausen concentration camp, June 26, 1941. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis

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Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague. Credit: Z. Jacobs/Shutterstock.

Dutch Supreme Court: Gantz immune from 2014 ‘war crimes’ suit

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The Netherlands' highest court ruled on Friday that former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution over the deaths of six Palestinians in an airstrike undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces...
Amin Abu Rashid with his daughters Israa (left) and Iman. Source: Facebook.

Dutch arrest father, daughter for sending millions to Hamas

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Dutch investigators arrested a father and daughter last week for “large-scale financing” of Hamas in breach of E.U. sanctions, prosecutors said Monday. The man, 55, and his daughter, 25, from the town of Leidschendam near...
Remembrance Day, the Netherlands. Source: Facebook/Embassy of the Netherlands in the United States.

On ‘Remembrance Day,’ Zelenskyy asks Dutch to mourn dead Ukrainians

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On a visit to the Netherlands on the country’s Remembrance Day—held annually on May 4 at 8 p.m. to commemorate soldiers and civilians who died in World War II, and in other wars and peacekeeping...
Jewish Children’s Monument, with names of 400 Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, at the site of a former Jewish school in The Hague. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Dutch survey: 10% of history teachers have Holocaust-denying students

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The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, which is nearly 65 years old, is consistently one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands. Yet public-school teachers report an alarming rate of Holocaust denial among...