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Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to.

FEBRUARY 8, 2026|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.

Students for Palestine and other students have occupied the Academy Building at the University of Leiden, November 26, 2025.

How activists misused Nazi-era Dutch Jewish advocate's name to justify intimidation - opinion

By blocking a lawful public lecture, activists misused Cleveringa’s name and violated the sacred principle on which the academy is founded.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025|ByAFSHIN ELLIAN

Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport, October 23, 2025.

Netherlands lowers Israel travel advisory to 'yellow' risk level after Gaza ceasefire

The Dutch Foreign Ministry lowered the threat level for most of Israel to "yellow," advising caution due to potential risks. Areas near Gaza, Lebanon, and Egypt's remain under "red" alerts.

NOVEMBER 26, 2025|ByJAMES GENN

The Party for Freedom (PVV) party leader Geert Wilders and Democrats 66 (D66) party leader Rob Jetten attend the final debate in the run-up to the House of Representatives elections, in The Hague, Netherlands, October 28, 2025

Centrist D66 party leads in Dutch election exit polls, Wilders vows to fight on from the opposition

Centrist D66, led by Rob Jetten, is on course to win the most votes in the Dutch election, beating Geert Wilders' Freedom Party.

OCTOBER 30, 2025|ByREUTERS

Dutch Fox channel adds antisemitic chants to soccer match soundtrack

The network added a recording from a past game that featured the popular chant “Whoever doesn’t jump is a Jew.”

OCTOBER 6, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

A man holds an umbrella while standing next to a canal in central Amsterdam, Netherlands March 2, 2020

Parcel shipped from the Netherlands marked with antisemitic slur

The Jewish news website Joods.nl on Friday published an article about the incident, which is currently the subject of an internal probe at the PostNL national mail service.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020ByCAANAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

The package discovered outside the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Jan. 15, 2020

Dutch officials pictured with terrorist involved in 17-year-old's death

The commander of the PFLP terror cell that prepared and detonated the bomb was Samer Arbid, an accountant for UAWC at the time of his 2019 arrest.

JULY 23, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV

Dutch gov't to fine store selling wine from Hebron, labeled from Israel

The warning came during a July 10 inspection of the Israel Products Center, an importer and retail outfit run by the pro-Israel group Christians for Israel.

JULY 16, 2020ByMARCY OSTER/JTA

West Bank wine tasting at Knesset, December 28, 2015

80% of Dutch cities involved Jewish property theft have no record of it

MAY 28, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

AMSTERDAM, WITH SOME 750,000 citizens, is rich with culture, history, amazing architecture and modern entertainment.

Dutch king: Jews felt ‘abandoned’ by my great-grandmother Wilhelmina

Liberation Day celebrations have been cancelled or moved online to comply with a ban on public gatherings during the coronavirus outbreak.

MAY 5, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands speaks at the National Remembrance Day ceremony in Amsterdam, May 4, 2020

Israel, Dutch philharmonic orchestras to perform joint memorial concert

The performance will be available, at 1 p.m., on the Facebook pages and other digital platforms of both orchestras.

MAY 4, 2020ByBARRY DAVIS

Dutch train employees sing ‘wholly inappropriate’ song about Jews

Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS, apologized on Sunday for the incident, which happened just after midnight aboard a train heading from Tilburg to Rotterdam.

FEBRUARY 25, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA