Tag: Netherlands
Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust.
Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Dutch national railway to compensate Holocaust survivors and their families
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the Dutch national railway company, announced over the weekend that it had completed the necessary preparation to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who were sent via Dutch trains to the death...
Dutch students to teacher: ‘Only reason you’re here is because Germans forgot to gas...
A new poll conducted in the Netherlands finds most of the country’s Jews are afraid to identify as Jewish in public. Half of all Dutch Jews polled said they do not feel safe in...
Life-size Noah’s Ark may be heading to Israel
A Dutch man who spent four years and $1.6 million to build an exact replica of Noah’s Ark says he will sail the 2,500-ton seafaring vessel to Israel.
Johan Huibers, 60, a devout Christian from...
Dutch parliament to hold hearing on PA program rewarding terrorism
Prompted by Israel calls to condemn the Palestinian Authority for rewarding terrorism, the Dutch Parliament will host an event later this week to hear from prominent activists who are spreading awareness about the so-called...
Dutch Jews fume over a plan to turn a historic synagogue into a restaurant
Jews in the central Netherlands city of Deventer are outraged over a plan by a Turkish developer to turn a historic synagogue into an eatery.
According to local media reports, developer Ayhan Sahin recently bought the...
Dutch professor questions Holocaust on TV, calls Jews ‘parasites’
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A professor emeritus from an esteemed university in the Netherlands whose father was a Nazi called Jews “parasites” in a televised interview.
Jan Tollenaere, a lecturer on medicinal chemistry who retired from...
Attacker of kosher Amsterdam restaurant fought in Syria
The man whom Dutch police released hours after he attacked a kosher restaurant while waving a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flag reportedly is a Damascus-born ex-combatant in Syria’s civil war, JTA reported Wednesday, citing the Dutch news site GeenStijl.
The...
Palestinian who vandalized Amsterdam kosher eatery says he’s not anti-Semitic
A Palestinian immigrant who smashed the windows of a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital while holding his national flag said the attack was neither over Jerusalem nor anti-Semitic.
The 29-year-old man, who was not...
Muslim man holding palestinian flag attacks Kosher restaurant in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM — Police are investigating the smashing of the windows of a kosher restaurant in a heavily-Jewish part of the Dutch capital by a man wearing a Palestinian flag.
The incident at HaCarmel restaurant occurred...