NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES

The Netherlands

13 Dutch political parties made a joint statement against antisemitism

They call on all Dutch people to join them and speak up against Jew hatred “because when Jews in our country are not safe we all must stand up”.

Object on fire thrown at Israeli embassy in The Hague

The Israeli embassy called on Dutch police to step up security efforts. “We trust that the authorities will take all possible measures to prevent such attacks.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters target Dutch Holocaust museum opening ceremony attended by Israeli president

Before Germany’s occupation, some 140,000 Jews called the Netherlands home. More than three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

New Holocaust museum in Amsterdam aims to tell full story of persecution of Dutch Jews

The museum tells the story of the Holocaust through video images, photos, scale models and mementoes of the Dutch victims of Nazi occupation. 

February strike of 1941 commemorated in Amsterdam

This year marks 83 years since tens of thousands of Amsterdam residents stopped working to stand up for their Jewish fellow citizens who were deported by the German occupiers.

Families of hostages fly to The Hague in suit against Hamas

Around 100 representatives of family members of the kidnapped flew to the Netherlands to file an official complaint against Hamas and its leadership at the International Criminal Court.

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