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Quarter of all Dutch discrimination offenses in 2025 were antisemitic, new report reveals

In 2025, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service recorded 46 antisemitic criminal discrimination cases, representing 26% of all registered discrimination offenses.

Police officers stand outside a Jewish school following an explosion that caused minor damages, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 14, 2026.
A police boat approaches the cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla de Abona after being affected by a hantavirus outbreak, in Tenerife, Spain, May 10, 2026.

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship due to arrive at Rotterdam port as final destination

Democrats 66 (D66) party leader Rob Jetten gestures as he speaks following the first exit poll result in the Dutch parliamentary elections in Leiden, Netherlands, October 29, 2025.

Explosion hits Netherlands' largest political party's headquarters, police say

A photo shows the headquarters of Netherland's General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) in Zoetermeer, on April 24, 2025.

Dutch are facing biggest security threat in decades, intelligence agency says


Israeli-born candidate for minister in Netherlands has candidacy withdrawn

Gidi Markuszower has not shied away from supporting Israel, in particular in the aftermath of October 7.

 Israeli-born Dutch lawmaker Gideon (Gidi) Markuszower (center) claps for Geert Wilders, June 13, 2024

Dutch prosecutors studying complaint against Booking.com's Israeli settlement listings

Dutch non-profit organization SOMO said it had filed the complaint with the Dutch public prosecutor in November, together with three other human rights groups, but had not gone public with it before.

 Illustration showing Booking.com app

Israel's Herzog to open Holocaust museum in Amsterdam amid protest

Israeli President faces protest at Holocaust Museum opening amidst Gaza conflict. Dutch Jewish group expresses concerns over his attendance.

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives at the Portuguese Synagogue on the day of the opening of the National Holocaust Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 10, 2024.

Former Dutch PM and his wife opt for euthanasia

Van Agt, who defended Hamas, was condemned over the years by Dutch watchdog groups as an antisemite.

 Dries van Agt

MK in Holland urges MPs: Hold UNRWA accountable, permanently cut funding

"I wanted to show them, this is not a few rotten apples, this is a body that is rotten to the core," MK Haskel told The Jerusalem Post. 

MK Sharren Haskel, co-chair of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, with Dutch MP Don Ceder.

Skull with 'execution-style wounds' sheds light on colonial Indonesia - study

Interpreting the pattern of trauma within the context of the colonial period in Papua, this female individual may have been murdered, possibly as a slave taken during tribal warfare.

 Trepanated skull of a woman-Tumb 3 Corseaux-En Seyton-on display 6, Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History.

Dutch politician Wilders slammed for ‘Jordan is Palestine’ claim

Wilders' radical although unoriginal proposal is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be resolved by relocating Palestinians to Jordan, denying their right to an independent sovereign state.

Dutch far-right politician and leader of the PVV party, Geert Wilders licks his finger as he meets with members of his party at the Dutch Parliament, after the Dutch parliamentary elections, in The Hague, Netherlands November 23, 2023

Geert Wilders: the anti-Islam, anti-EU populist who could be next Dutch PM

After 25 years in Dutch politics without holding office, Wilders was set to lead coalition government talks and has a good chance of becoming prime minister.

 Dutch far-right politician and leader of the PVV party, Geert Wilders speaks to the press following the exit poll and early results in the Dutch parliamentary elections, in The Hague, Netherlands November 22, 2023

Jewish WW2 resistance fighter's remains finally identified after 80 years

Bernard Luza was 39 years old when he was killed by a firing squad and buried in an unmarked grave alongside four others.

 Bernard Luza

Dutchman running from Amsterdam to Kyiv to buy ambulances for Ukraine

Kragtwijk has raised 22,000 euros via his Ultra4Ukraine GoFundMe page so far.

 Dutch runner Boas Kragtwijk runs after an interview with Reuters in Amsterdam