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Amsterdam Holocaust Museum ‘bans’ Kanye West over Nazi rants

Three people were removed from the crowd at the singer’s concert in nearby Arnhem after holding signs ‘promoting conspiracy theories about the Holocaust’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025, in Los Angeles, California (Getty Images)

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The Netherlands is no place for Jews, says Dutch Eurovision winner after retirement home cancels her concert

By Bart Schut

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Dutch retirement home cancels concert from Jewish Eurovision winner after pro-Palestine protests

By Canaan Lidor

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Kanye West, who goes by Ye, performing at Coachella in the US in 2019 (Photo: Getty)

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Kanye West Netherlands gigs facing backlash following UK Wireless ban

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Police officers in Amsterdam (Getty Images)

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Dutch police foil synagogue attack as explosive found

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Security around Jewish buildings in Amsterdam has been ramped up after an explosion occurred outside a Jewish school (Photo: Getty)

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Extremist group claiming to be behind Amsterdam school blast says it carried out second explosion

By Katie Grant

2 min read

Security around Jewish institutions in Amsterdam has been stepped up after an explosion occurred outside a school in the early hours of Saturday morning (Photo: Getty)

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Amsterdam Jewish school explosion highlights Netherlands’ ‘antisemitism epidemic’

By Ben Conway

2 min read

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What drives the Eurovision boycott over the Jewish state is something old and dark

Apparently, the innocent Dutch viewers must be shielded from contamination by the wicked Israeli soul

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December 9, 2025 14:29

Yuval Raphael during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Opening Ceremony on May 17, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. (Image: Getty)

Amsterdam concert hall cancels Chanukah show because singer is IDF’s chief cantor

Concertgebouw director Simon Reinink said that allowing Shai Abramson to perform would be ‘against our mission’

By Jamie Shapiro

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November 3, 2025 11:32

IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson (Image: YouTube/JBS)

By Bart Schut

Dutch voters snub parties that tried to make Gaza the central issue

Jews and friends of Israel can breathe a sigh of relief as extremists lose out in general election

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October 31, 2025 17:26

Jubilant: Rob Jetten, the leader of D66 (Democrats 66), is in pole position to become the next Dutch prime minister after Wednesday's elections. (Image: Getty)

Jewish-owned painting stolen by Nazis goes missing as police raid Argentine home of Hitler aide’s daughter

Portrait of a Lady was stolen from Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker during the Second World War but was reportedly discovered in Argentina

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

August 28, 2025 13:55

The painting believed to be Portrait of a Lady, before it went missing, on the wall inside an expensive Argentinian villa (Image: Robles Casas & Campos)

Dutch Foreign Minister quits over Israel sanctions

Caspar Veldkamp wanted the Netherlands to take a tougher approach to Israel

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 24, 2025 10:43

Dutch outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof addresses the press after making a statement in the House of Representatives regarding the resignation of his cabinet's NSC ministers, in The Hague August 22, 2025. Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned on August 22, 2025, after a deadlocked cabinet debate on possible sanctions against Israel, ANP news agency reported. "I see that I am insufficiently able to take meaningful additional measures to increase pressure on Israel," Veldkamp told ANP after the cabinet meeting that failed to agree on whether to order sanctions. (Photo by Phil Nijhuis / various sources / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PHIL NIJHUIS/Phil Nijhuis/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Israelis hospitalised in brutal Center Parcs attack after pro-Palestine activists called for ‘mobilisation’

Two days before the incident, Israelis at another Center Parcs site in the Netherlands were secretly recorded by pro-Palestine activists

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

August 22, 2025 12:41

Center Parcs De Kempervennen, where the incident happened (Image: Center Parcs)

Dutch nurse investigated over posts saying she would kill ‘Zionist’ patients

Btissame Chait-Said denied harboring any anti-Jewish bias and claimed hackers hijacked three of her social media accounts.

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 4, 2025 14:38

A nurse in the Netherlands is under investigation after posts on her social media account suggested she would like to kill 'Zionist' patients (Image: stock via Getty)

Netherlands accuses Israel of trying to influence Dutch public opinion

A report listed the Jewish state alongside Russia, Turkey and Iran as countries that have sought to "to shape public opinion and political decision-making."

By JC Reporter

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July 29, 2025 10:53

Netanyahu with Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof

Netherlands sanctions far-right Israeli ministers over ‘calls for ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

The move was condemned by right-wing opposition figures as ‘hatred against Israel’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 29, 2025 10:41

The Netherlands has banned far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich (L) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (R) from entering the country over their alleged 'incitement' of settler violence in the West Bank and 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza (Image: Flash90)

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The Netherlands

Amsterdam Holocaust Museum ‘bans’ Kanye West over Nazi rants

The Netherlands is no place for Jews, says Dutch Eurovision winner after retirement home cancels her concert

Dutch retirement home cancels concert from Jewish Eurovision winner after pro-Palestine protests

Kanye West Netherlands gigs facing backlash following UK Wireless ban

Dutch police foil synagogue attack as explosive found

Extremist group claiming to be behind Amsterdam school blast says it carried out second explosion

Amsterdam Jewish school explosion highlights Netherlands’ ‘antisemitism epidemic’

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