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Dutch descendant of Righteous Among the Nations fights for Israeli residency

The Interior Ministry rejected Ellen Monique Tjittes' application, citing an age restriction that her attorney says conflicts with the procedure and a January 2026 court ruling.

Ellen Monique Tjittes, a 56-year-old Dutch Christian whose grandfather and great-grandparents were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.
Police officers stand next to pro-Palestinian protesters outside the University of Amsterdam during a protest, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2024

Netherlands to prohibit imports, sales of West Bank settlement products

CLOSE, PERSONAL friend: Famous Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, inside Amsterdam’s Ajax Arena Stadium.

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, remember: Jewish players need serious rabbinical advice - opinion

One of the 3,000 artifacts discovered in Drenthe, the Netherlands, June 19, 2026.

Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley


A cultural bridge too far? Israeli expats assess life in the Netherlands

‘Sometimes I miss that Israeli directness’

AMSTERDAM CANAL: At about 2 meters below sea-level, the city is built on 11 million support poles

Speaker for Dutch Holocaust memorial after uproar over antisemitic comment

"I didn’t mean it," Benali said. "I distance myself from those remarks, they weren’t meant literally. I also have Jewish friends and interview Jewish authors.”

National Holocaust Museum Amsterdam 2016

Author accused of antisemitism set to be Holocaust memorial speaker

The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews.

A woman walks past a national flag, the day before a general election, in Delft, Netherlands, March 14, 2017.

Man arrested for painting swastika on Dutch mosque

Earlier in the weekend, swastikas were discovered on the facades of two synagogues in Utrecht. Police suspect that the man also painted those symbols.

ARE WE doing enough to confront antisemitism?

Dutch right-wing politician resigns following party’s antisemitism scandal

He has said that assuming responsibility for the antisemitism scandal was not the immediate reason for stepping down.

Vienna students fight antisemitism

Dutch teacher in hiding after threatened for Islamic cartoon discussion

The cartoon, which won a national prize in 2015, shows a decapitated figure labelled "Charlie Hebdo" sticking its tongue out at a bearded man with a bloody sword.

Muslim demonstrators hold placards during a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in Charlie Hebdo in London

Dutch chief rabbi says ‘no need’ for churches’ apologies

“We failed in speaking out and in keeping silent, in deeds and inaction, in attitude and thoughts,”

FATHER ABBOT ABIBOS poses this week on the front deck of his mobile Georgian Orthodox monastery, featuring a chapel decorated with the wall frescos, in the Dutch harbor town of Vlissingen

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.”

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.

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.

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