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Netherlands: The threat of ambient antisemitism

Many Dutch Jews feel they are being tolerated rather than accepted, remembered rather than protected

|ByELDAD BECK
Protesters running after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam
KLM Dutch airline planes

Dutch airline KLM retracts decision to resume Israel flights

The airline announced that it continues to monitor the situation and hopes to resume ‘as quickly as possible.’

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
KLM AIRCRAFT are seen on the tarmac at Schipol airport near Amsterdam April 15, 2015.

Dutch airline KLM running low on de-icing fluid for planes in Amsterdam

KLM said its 25 de-icing trucks have been in continuous use in Amsterdam, consuming around 85,000 liters per day of a mixture of heated water and glycol used to clear departing aircraft.

|ByREUTERS
PEOPLE WALK in the snow-covered Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower, as winter weather with snow and cold temperatures hits a large part of the country, in Paris, France, January 5, 2026.

Freezing weather across Europe causes flight cancellations, rail network disuption

All domestic rail services in the Netherlands were suspended early on Tuesday after an IT outage compounded disruption across the country's rail network.

|ByREUTERS

European leaders are betraying their Jewish citizens again - opinion

This is a familiar pattern: Violence against Jews is dismissed, downplayed, or reframed. 

NOVEMBER 23, 2024ByZINA RAKHAMILOVA
A WOMAN holds a sign that reads ‘never again is now’ at a march marking the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht last year in Berlin.

The Netherlands are lost: Dutch seek to blame Israeli victims of Amsterdam pogrom - opinion

We grew up on the legend of the Dutch as “Righteous Among the Nations,” heroes who helped save Jews during World War II. However, the truth is starkly different.

NOVEMBER 23, 2024ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
PEOPLE WAVE Palestinian flags and a man wears a ‘Free Palestine’ shirt as students and employees of the University of Amsterdam protest, earlier this year.

The victory against antisemitism: The conference of European Rabbis convenes in Munich

NOVEMBER 20, 2024ByMARK FISH

Following Amsterdam events: Surge in cruise demand among Israelis

Due to the current security situation in Europe, Sanorama reports a surge in demand for Royal Caribbean cruises, offering Black Friday discounts of up to $800 per cabin and extra spending credits.

NOVEMBER 19, 2024ByMEITAL SHARABI/MAARIV
Independence of the Seas, Royal Caribbean

Hamas official banished from Milan

Mohammad Hannoun, designated recently by the US for transferring millions to Hamas through his ‘sham charity’ organization ABSPP, was banished by the city police on grounds of incitement to violence.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Mohammad Hannoun with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

EJA calls on Europe to enact six month emergency period due to antisemitism 

EJA chairman declares 'antisemitism emergency' in Europe, urges EU to enact six-month special protection measures.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByMATHILDA HELLER
Menachem Margolin EJA calls on Europe to enact 6 month emergency period due to antisemitism.

'Amsterdam riots were not pogrom,' mayor says, defending Muslim population

Femka Halsema accused the Israeli government and Dutch politicians of using the term 'pogrom' as propaganda to attack the Muslim community.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByYUVAL BARNEA
AMSTERDAM MAYOR Femke Halsema attends a new conference following the pogrom against Israeli soccer fans in the city last week. The mayor called it ‘an outburst of antisemitism the likes of which we hoped not to see again in Amsterdam.’

Calling the attacks in the Dutch capital antisemitic is burying our heads in the sand - opinion

From Amsterdam to Sderot, the ideology is the same. It is a deep-rooted hatred for any expression of democratic and liberal values.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByALON DAVIDI
THE WRITER speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in September. Hatred of Jews is a central component of radical Islam’s rhetoric, but it is merely part of a greater objective – destabilizing the free world order, he maintains.

'I don't wear a yarmulke anymore': Netherlands’s Jews endure outbreak of antisemitism

Stickers were found across Apeldoorn demanding the city be made "Jew Free."

NOVEMBER 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman wrapped in an Israel flag stands outside the place where mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema attends a press conference following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2024.

Mainstream media downplayed violent Amsterdam pogrom - opinion

The international media should have known better and been able to call a spade a spade and a pogrom a pogrom.

NOVEMBER 16, 2024ByGIL HOFFMAN
TOASTING MACCABI Tel Aviv fans upon their arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, after their rescue from marauding pro-Palestinian gangs in Amsterdam, Nov. 8.