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'This is Auschwitz': Hundreds defy Amsterdam protest ban in solidarity with antisemitic attackers

On Sunday afternoon, the city of Amsterdam posted on X that protesters who defied the ban would be arrested.

 Anti-Israel protesters arrived in troves "in solidarity" with Thursday's pogrom in Amsterdam.
Dutch Ambassador to Israel Naor Gilon (left) is seen shaking hands with Duth Senate President Jan Anthonie Bruijn.

Dutch Protestant Church apologizes to Israel for role in Holocaust

Officials at the inauguration ceremony of the Mitzpeh Ramon Water Project.

Israeli, Dutch officials inaugurate Mitzpeh Ramon Water Project

Soccer ball (illustrative)

Dutch soccer fans arrested for chanting ‘Jews burn best’


Youth of MDA and Tzamid plant a shared future together

Young members of MDA Youth and the Tzamid organization for people with special needs plant trees together in Emek Ayalon at a festive Tu Bishvat event sponsored by friends of JNF Holland.

Tamar Lev-Zion of Rehovot (center) plants a tree for Tu Bishvat, with two teens from MDA Youth

A response to Jan van Mil

You feel uncomfortable living in a society that defines itself as Jewish and you want us to forgo that definition so you can pretend that you actually live in some other kind of place.

‘THE PALESTINIAN refusal to recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is Netanyahu’s powerful explanation why no compromise with the Palestinians is possible

Israeli's avocados taking Europe by storm

Lots of avocados. About 10,000 succulent, Hass avocados each week, to be exact.

Kale, quinoa and avocado salad

Israel lodges complaint over Dutch parody of Netta Barzilai

'We can live with criticism, but we do not cross the lines. You did.'

Israel's Netta reacts as she wins the Grand Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2018 at the Altice Arena hall in Lisbon, Portugal, May 12, 2018

Antisemitic vandalism in Holland rises 40% to highest level since 2007

The data was published amid unprecedented developments in public debate on antisemitism in the Netherlands.

A man wears a kippa.

Fans unfollow Dutch actress for vacationing in Israel

Koblenko said she has no interest in the attention of people who “assume something about my political inclination based on my holiday destination.”

Victoria Koblenko, 33, poses on the bench which was used in the movie "The Fault In Our Stars", in Amsterdam July 11, 2014.

Dutch ex-PM compares Israeli arrests of Palestinians to Nazi practices

PM has previously refused to define Hamas as terrorist organization, demanded Netanyahu’s arrest and trial for alleged war crimes

Dries van Agt

The clock is ticking for the Jews of Amsterdam

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Where Jews once flourished in Amsterdam and Norway

A Jewish glance at Amsterdam and the Fjord towns of Norway.

The Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam

Israel through the Dutch Ambassador’s eye

“It is, I think, part of the eventual solution in this part of the world – the peace process – that one is able to understand the fears and the joys of the other person.”

Ambassador Gilles Beschoor Plug

Elections in the Netherlands: A blow to the surge of right-wing populism?

The most serious challenge to the late surge of Right-populist movements, then, could be the availability of anti-establishment parties and candidates in the center and on the left.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (R) of the VVD Liberal party and Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV Party