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House of representatives in the Hague, Netherlands. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Credit: João Pimentel Ferreira
July 24, 2020, 1:49 pm
Netherlands suspends aid to group that employed alleged Palestinian terrorists
Payments stopped to Ramallah-based Union of Agricultural Work Committees, who reportedly used the money to pay two men in Israeli custody over the murder of an Israeli teen
By JTA
A monument at former Nazi transition-camp Westerbork, located in the Netherlands, showing mangled train tracks which brought inmates to the camp
June 28, 2020, 11:42 am
Dutch rail firm offers £4.5m compensation for Shoah-era transport of victims
Firm offered compensation to Shoah organisations including museums at former camps Westerbork, Vught and Amersfoort.
By JTA
The National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam
June 5, 2020, 4:27 pm
Amsterdam to contribute £4.4m for Holocaust museum makeover
City authority takes 'decisive' step to ensure the organisation reaches its £22m target
By JTA
The National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam
May 31, 2020, 11:35 am
80% of Dutch cities involved in theft of Jewish property have no record of it
Among the 223 municipalities involved, four fifths have no data about theft according to a new report that’s generating a strong public response in the Netherlands.
By JTA
Photo by lan deng on Unsplash
February 25, 2020, 2:57 pm
Dutch train employees sing ‘inappropriate’ song about Jews over loudspeaker
Staff on national railway chanted about Jews coming from Israel and made references to Ajax, a football club with support from Jewish people historically
By JTA
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
February 9, 2020, 11:58 am
Swastikas painted on headstones at Dutch Jewish cemetery
Incident in Dordrecht - 40 miles from Amsterdam - led the Dutch Jewish groups filing a police complaint
By JTA
January 28, 2020, 12:47 pm
Germany gives £3.4m to Dutch Holocaust museum’s renovation
The museum will close down for two years so it can be redone, and will be turned into a single site with a larger capacity
By Jewish News Reporter
Picture of the box from @federatiefjoods on Twitter
January 16, 2020, 12:30 pm
Box resembling fake homemade bomb placed outside Amsterdam kosher eatery
Police bomb disposal unit rushed to the scene to examine the device, with a probe revealing it contained no explosives
By JTA
Google street view image of the Dutch national Holocaust museum.
January 14, 2020, 3:16 pm
Germany gives £3.4m to Dutch Holocaust museum’s renovation
The museum will close down for two years so it can be redone, and will be turned into a single site with a larger capacity
By JTA
Yellow Candle
January 12, 2020, 10:17 am
Dutch artist’s Shoah display uses light to commemorate murdered Jews
Daan Roosegaarde’s “Light of Life” project, which will feature in 150 municipalities, uses dark spaces with stones that light up briefly.
By JTA
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
November 27, 2019, 6:07 pm
OPINION: Double mazeltov on Dutch Mid East policy
Jeremy Havardi welcomes two moves by the Netherlands' parliament to stop 'pay for slay' payments to Palestinians and snub a call to label settlement goods
By Jeremy Havardi
Dutch police car in the Hague (Wikipedia/Author: Frans Berkelaar/Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/28169156@N03/22525190646/)
November 5, 2019, 11:52 am
Dutch Jewish family targeted with fireworks amid ‘nauseating’ years-long torment
Wouter Schmidt said the attack was part of a campaign of harassment against his family which has included shouts of “cancer Jew” and “Jew whore”
By Jewish News Reporter
Bloodies Yotam Kashpizky after the attack (Facebook/Barak Kashpizky)
September 12, 2019, 4:14 pm
Polish police arrest two Dutchmen suspected of assaulting Israelis
Authorities hold citizens from the Netherlands of Armenian descent after Yotam Kashpizky suffered a broken nose and eye socket in the assault
By JTA
Westerbork concentration camp
August 28, 2019, 4:49 pm
Dutch Shoah museum drops claims that Jews threatened to kill its ex-director
Decision by Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork not to complain to the police follows tensions with local Jewish leaders
By JTA
Benoit Wesly told police that he was tortured until he gave his assailants the combination to his safe. (RTV Maastricht via JTA/Times of Israel)
July 14, 2019, 9:40 am
Netherlands Jewish leader tortured and robbed at home by four men
Benoit Wesly, a 73-year-old businessman, woke up early Sunday morning to find the assailants around his bed in his home in Maastricht
By JTA
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