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Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema speaks at a press conference about antisemitic violence in her city, Nov. 8, 2024. Credit: The Municipality of Amsterdam.

Amsterdam mayor walks back ‘pogrom’ label for assaults

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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...
Adam Davis at the match between the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax soccer teams in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Nov. 7, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Sorry, sir, we are unable to help you right now’

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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...
Rabbi Meir Villegas Henriquez at his synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo courtesy of Villegas Henriquez.

Following pogrom, Dutch rabbi calls on Jews to make aliyah

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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...
Assessing some of the damage after Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” in Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938. Credit: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The echo of broken glass from Amsterdam

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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...
Fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team who flew on El Al rescue flight from Amsterdam arrive to the arrivals hall of the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel on Nov. 8, 2024. Photo by Jonathan Shaul/Flash90.

The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism

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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

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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....