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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

Dutch parliamentarian Esther Ouwehand wearing a Palestinian flag blouse, September 18, 2025.

Dutch MP forced to change ‘Palestinian flag’ outfit during heated budget debate

Protesters wave Dutch national flag as they take part in the "Stand up for the Netherlands" demonstration against the Netherlands' government current asylum seekers policy, in The Hague, September 20, 2025

Dutch police use tear gas against anti-immigration protesters


Novel on Holland’s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for errors

Hollands Diep, van Rijn’s publisher, said it “fully stands behind the book,” which Elco Lenstra, a company spokesperson, stressed was being marketed as a novel.

Newly arriving Jewish refugees from the Holocaust at Haifa Port, 1948

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam's Royal Concert Hall decades after WWII

A tradition that had been paused for 70 years after the Holocaust, its resumption is helping to unite and revitalize a dwindling and divided community with its glorious past.

Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 2019.

Dutch Protestant Church apologizes to Israel for role in Holocaust

Dutch Protestant Church spokesman Peter de-Boer said “unfortunately, Christian theology contributed much to the antisemitic discourse that led to the events of the Holocaust.”

Dutch Ambassador to Israel Naor Gilon (left) is seen shaking hands with Duth Senate President Jan Anthonie Bruijn.

Dutch rabbis warn: Blow shofar sparingly, outside amid coronavirus crisis

Rabbis “should consider inviting congregations to go out to the synagogue’s yard and blow the shofar there, outside the actual building."

RABBI MOSHE SILVER blows a Yemenite shofar at the Jerusalem Promenade

Kissing now off the menu as lockdown ends for Dutch sex workers

Sex workers already adhere to strict health safety regulations in the Netherlands, but the industry has compiled a list of recommendations, including sexual positions to avoid.

Several popular sex clubs in Amsterdam's "Red Light" district closes their doors in response to a rapidly expanding coronavirus outbreak, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 15, 2020.

Dutch rail co. offers $5.6m. for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims

Jewish organizations said in a joint statement Friday that NS should also offer compensation directly to the families of the Jews it transported to their deaths.

A flower lies in the train tracks at Gleis 17 memorial in Berlin, where thousands of Holocaust victims were deported to concentration camps

Syrian man vandalizes Amsterdam kosher restaurant for second time

The attack was the fifth case of vandalism or intimidation in 2 ½ years.

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

Dutch soccer coach called a Jewish player ‘cancer Jew,’ teammates say

“He asked me whether I’m an Ajax fan or a Jew,” the boy said, referencing the Amsterdam team that has many fans who use Jewish symbols as mascots.

The soccer pitch of the GeuzenMiddenmeer team in Amsterdam

Muslim leader accused of writing Hitler was Jewish in pro-Hamas email

Hamas is a legitimate and growing protest movement” against “usurpers” that used the Holocaust, “perpetrated by the Jew Hitler,” an influential leader of Dutch Muslims allegedly wrote.

Cyclist passing by the Mevlana Mosque in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on May 2, 2008

Three wounded in stabbing in The Hague

Early reports suggest that it is not a terrorist attack.

Knife attack (descriptive)