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Dutch ban on Israeli settlement goods comes into force with six-year jail term for violations

Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands said the ban would result in unintended negative consequences for Palestinians as well as settlers

By Daniel Ben-David

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A Palestinian worker sorts plastic crates at Qitaf company in the Jordan Valley village of Jiftlik in the West Bank, February 9, 2020 (Getty Images)

Dutch singer Claude Kiambe, representing the Netherlands with the song 'C'est La Vie', parades during the flag ceremony prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland, on May 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

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Netherlands to return to Eurovision in reversal of Israel boycott

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Dutch public broadcaster pulls out of Eurovision Song Contest over ‘participation of countries at war’

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Amsterdam Holocaust Museum ‘bans’ Kanye West over Nazi rants

By Jacob Jaffa

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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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Eurovision

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

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Dutch police foil synagogue attack as explosive found

The planned attack in Heemstede in Western Netherlands would have been the third this month in the country

By Jamie Shapiro

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March 23, 2026 13:58

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

Two explosions in the Dutch capital follow an arson attack on a Rotterdam synagogue

By Katie Grant

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March 17, 2026 14:10

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

Amsterdam Jewish school explosion highlights Netherlands’ ‘antisemitism epidemic’

The city’s mayor called the blast a ‘deliberate attack against the Jewish community’

By Ben Conway

2 min read

March 15, 2026 13:21

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)

By Leon de Winter

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

3 min read

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

1 min read

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)

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The Netherlands

Dutch ban on Israeli settlement goods comes into force with six-year jail term for violations

Netherlands to return to Eurovision in reversal of Israel boycott

Dutch public broadcaster pulls out of Eurovision Song Contest over ‘participation of countries at war’

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

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