Dutch officials probe “Free Palestine” rally at Nazi victim monument

Members of Netherlands’ ruling party have appealed to the municipal government of Amsterdam concerning antisemitic incitement allowed at a monument dedicated to victims of Nazi crimes last week.

Friday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, when the Nazi pogrom heralded the Third Reich’s drive to wipe out Jews.

At the latest boycott of Israel staged every Sunday at the site, more demonstrators joined the usual handful of activists to the tune of “Free Palestine” by a Dutch Muslim rapper named Ismo that contains vitriolic lyrics against Jews and deals with a highly controversial subject matter.

“I hate Jews more than the Nazis,” was heard playing from the loudspeakers, a lyric from the 2014 song that celebrate a female suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.

“Rush hour in Tel Aviv, she boards the bus with a 60-year-old man, she sits down and closes her eyes and desires for revenge come out and she wants to express them, she blows herself up,” the song lyrics recount from the artists whose real name is Ismael Houllich.

At the time of the song’s release, Ismo tried to distance himself from antisemitism, rather insisting his beef is with Zionism.

“They are trying to twist my words against me,” he said in a regional radio interview, according to the Times of Israel. “I don’t hate all Jews. I hate only Zionist Jews that made Palestine smaller than my neighborhood.”

“It all depends on how you interpret the song. By ‘faggots’ I didn’t mean homosexuals and by ‘Jews’ I didn’t mean all Jews. My fans realize that,” he added.

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