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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.

Students for Palestine and other students have occupied the Academy Building at the University of Leiden, November 26, 2025.
Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport, October 23, 2025.

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

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

THE ‘CORDELIA MOON’ oil tanker bursts into flames after being hit in a Houthi missile attack off Yemen’s Hodeidah Port last October.

Dutch cargo ship adrift and ablaze after attack in Gulf of Aden, EU maritime mission says


Dutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’

Political rivals and CIDI, Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on antisemitism, said Baudet’s remark was “shocking.”

Nazi defendants (left to right, front row) Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel sit in the dock of their war crimes trial at Nuremberg

‘Jew cookies,’ a Dutch dessert staple, are getting a new name

The name change comes at a time when companies the world over are assessing their product lines to ensure that they are culturally appropriate — a reckoning that is hitting the food world hard.

Renee Pater presents the design for the new label that her company, Patisserie Pater, produces in Zwaagdijk, the Netherlands.

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