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The Netherlands

Man holding Palestinian flag smashes windows of kosher restaurant in Amsterdam

Police are investigating the smashing of windows of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam by a man wearing a Palestinian flag.

Motions on Jerusalem and Palestinian state fail in Dutch parliament

A draft motion urging the Dutch government to recognise immediately a Palestinian state and a second urging it to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital failed to get passed in the country’s parliament.

Dutch prosecutors: Calling Israeli children “Zionist terrorists” is not incitement

Calling Israeli children “Zionist terrorists in training” and “future child murderers and occupiers” does not constitute incitement to hate, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said.

New Dutch play about Anne Frank fails to mention Jews

A Dutch production of a new take on Anne Frank will open amid criticism this week for erasing the Frank family's Jewish identity and failing to mention the Nazis who killed Anne and her sister in a concentration camp.

Dutch football fans ridicule child Holocaust victims on Twitter

Football fans in the Netherlands used a picture of child victims of the Holocaust...

Dutch rabbi to quit centrist party over leader’s comments excluding Muslims

A well-known rabbi from the Netherlands said he would leave his political...

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