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Old July 7th, 2022 #321
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In the midst of all the Ukraine shit, I have not seen anything about this situation in Holland anywhere, either. A total blackout. The situation sounds really, really serious. Too bad Johan is no longer here, his take on this would be very interesting.

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Old September 20th, 2022 #323
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Anti-racism envoy criticizes Dutch government for not trusting citizenry; No apologies for slavery

Monday, 19 September 2022

Dutch laws and regulations introduced in recent years is "based on the institutionalized distrust politics and government has towards citizens," writes Rabin Baldewsingh, the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism. The remarks were part of the first National Program Against Discrimination and Racism, which was presented on Monday. The report did not include apologies for the Dutch historical ties to slavery.

This state of affairs has contributed to "a growing breach of trust" in society between "large groups of citizens" and politics and government, according to the Baldewsingh’s introduction to the program.

https://nltimes.nl/2022/09/19/anti-r...logies-slavery
 
Old October 8th, 2022 #324
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High prices, rising poverty increase Antisemitism, experts warn

07/10/2022

Antisemitism always increases in times of rising costs and growing poverty, experts told NU.nl. With record high inflation and more and more people struggling to make ends meet in the Netherlands, it is therefore crucial that the government acts quickly against the hatred of Jewish people.

“The past has shown that Antisemitism increases when there is unrest in society. That was also the case during the coronavirus crisis,” Eddo Verdoner, the National Coordinator for fighting Antisemitism (NCAB), said to the newspaper. He is confident that people will again use Jewish people as a scapegoat in the current cost crisis. “You can set the clock by that.”

The NCAB is right, Bart Wallet, professor of Jewish studies at the University of Amsterdam, said to NU.nl. “When there are crises, many people feel they are losing control of their lives.” Conspiracy theories offer people a simple scapegoat for a complex problem. “That quickly becomes mixed with Antisemitism.”

The Verwey-Jonker institute and the Anne Frank House confirmed the above views.

According to Verdoner, people wrongly assume that Antisemitism only exists when there are Jewish people to experience it. He cited Antisemitic chants in football stadiums as an example. “Antisemitism also exists when there are no Jews present. What you see in football stadiums has an effect in the classroom and at work. It also fuels other hatred, for example, against foreigners. This makes Antisemitism a danger to the rule of law.”

On Thursday, Verdoner sent his first action plan against Antisemitism to the government. He advised acting more against online Antisemitism, improving education on the Holocaust, and normalizing the Jewish lifestyle, for example, by King Willem-Alexander or Prime Minister Mark Rutte giving a televised speech for Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.

https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/07/high-p...m-experts-warn
 
Old October 31st, 2022 #326
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Cabinet considering ban on Holocaust denial amid growing concern for anti-Semitism

31 October 2022

Amidst growing anti-Semitism in the Netherlands and the rest of the world, Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius is working on an explicit ban on Holocaust denial. She also plans to take stricter action against anti-Semitism online and anti-Semitic chants in football stadiums, she said in the Ronny Naftani lecture, organized by the Jewish Humanitarian Fund, Trouw reports.

“We have to draw a line together,” Yeşilgöz-Zegerius said, expressing deep concern about the increase in anti-Semitic expressions and incidents. “Step by step, hatred of Jews seems to be becoming commonplace. Anti-Semites seem to express it less and less covertly. People are no longer ashamed of it.”

Yeşilgöz-Zegerius has a bill ready to include an explicit ban on condoning, denying, or grossly trivializing the Holocaust in the Criminal Code. This is already punishable in the Netherlands but not explicitly stated in the law. A clearer legal standard is needed to send a signal to society, Yeşilgöz-Zegerius believes.

According to the Minister, the increasing anti-Semitism risks less radical Netherlands residents getting sucked into the flow of hatred of Jewish people. Since the coronavirus pandemic, anti-government, anti-capitalist, anti-Israel, far-right, and super-religious groups have found common ground by making Jews the scapegoats for everything. “They also suck the moderates into their dark conspiracies,” she said, referring to things like comparing coronavirus restrictions to the Holocaust.

https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/31/cabine...-anti-semitism
 
Old December 13th, 2022 #327
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Dutch National Railway to Launch Major Probe of Its Part in the Holocaust

The government-owned Dutch railway company has begun in recent years to face a stain on its past: Some 140,000 Jews, 15,000 of whom were refugees from Germany, were living in the Netherlands when Germany invaded it in 1940. Only 5,000 returned after the war

Dec 13, 2022

The Dutch national railway company, Nederlandse Spoorwege, announced Monday that it had ordered the launch of a comprehensive internal investigation in an attempt to uncover its culpability in the Holocaust.

The investigation seeks to determine the extent of the company’s involvement in the German war effort, including the deportation of Dutch Jews to transit camps before being taken to extermination camps in Poland. The project, which will begin in the spring of 2023, will be spearheaded by the Amsterdam-based Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide, and will take three and a half years to complete.

According to a statement from the institute released on Monday, the main goal of the study is to determine the involvement of officials and certain departments in the railway company in Nazi crimes.

Some 140,000 Jews, 15,000 of them refugees from Germany were living in the Netherlands when Germany invaded in May 1940. In the summer of 1942, deportations to the death camps began. Their destination was usually transit camps that would take them mainly to Auschwitz and Sobibor.

By 1943, most of the Netherlands' Jews had been deported; the last train left in September 1944. Only 5,000 returned after the war. More than 75 percent of Dutch Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

In recent years, the Dutch national railway company began facing the stain of its past. The company issued an apology in 2005 for the deportation of Jews, and later announced the establishment of a commission to study the possibility of financial compensation for Jewish deportees and their families who survived.

In 2019, the company announced that Jewish, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors who were sent on Dutch trains to the camps would receive compensation of 15,000 euros. The relatives of those who died, children and spouses, would receive compensation of between 5,000 and 7,500 euros.

The company defined this period as a “black page in the history of the company and country.” In 2020, the Dutch media reported that 7,600 people had filed applications for compensation and that 5,000 had already received funds.

Even before that, the French state-owned railway company, the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNFC), gave compensation, having been responsible for the deportation of more than 75,000 Jews, 11,000 of whom were children, to camps during the Holocaust. At first the Jews were deported to internment camps in France – including Drancy and Gurs – from which they were later sent to Auschwitz and other camps, where they were murdered.

Only about 2,500 Jews survived. Lawsuits were filed over the years against the company, and only in 2015, it announced that Holocaust survivors and their families living in the United States, Israel and other countries, were entitled to compensation.

The German railway company Deutsche Bahn, which was founded in 1994 as the successor of the veteran railway companies including Deutsche Reichsbahn, did not offer such compensation.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...f-effcb7310000
 
Old December 13th, 2022 #328
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Report uncovers widespread racism at Dutch foreign ministry

12/12/2022

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The top civil servant at the Dutch foreign ministry apologized Monday after an independent investigation found widespread racism at the government department in the Netherlands and at its diplomatic outposts around the world.

“Racism cannot and should not have a place in our organization,” the ministry’s secretary-general Paul Huijts said.

“We are sorry that we have apparently not been able to offer a work environment in which there is no place for this sort of occurrence,” he said. “For that I offer, on behalf of the management board, our apologies.”

Civil servants called in an independent research bureau to investigate racism at the ministry following Black Lives Matter protests across the world and in the Netherlands.

The bureau’s report said that racism at the ministry ranges “from aggressive, direct, overt and conscious to subtle, indirect, hidden, unintentional or unconscious — and that bicultural employees and locally hired employees of color experience various forms of racism.”

In a letter to lawmakers, Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said it was “extra painful” to find racism at his ministry, “because every form of discrimination is prohibited and we advocate internationally for justice.” He said the ministry “will do everything we can to eliminate racism within our own organization.”

In 2020, amid the global reckoning with racism following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States, Prime Minister Mark Rutte conceded that racism was a problem in the Netherlands, a nation that has long considered itself a bastion of tolerance.

“There are also people living in the Netherlands who in that regard feel that they don’t fully fit in, that they can’t play a full role in this society,” he said at the time. “That is also a Dutch problem. There is racism here, too. There is discrimination here, too.”

Hoekstra said his ministry would adopt recommendations laid out in the report to tackle racism and make it easier for staff to report incidents.

“We stand for a ministry in which every member of staff is respected and valued,” he wrote in his letter to parliament.

https://apnews.com/article/netherlan...52a358ae76fd99
 
Old January 26th, 2023 #329
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Survey shows lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands

January 25, 2023

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands said Wednesday that the results showed “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust,” prompting calls for better education in the nation that was home to diarist Anne Frank and her family.

The survey commissioned by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that the number of respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.

https://abcnews.go.com/International...lands-96654328
 
Old February 17th, 2023 #330
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Names of Nazi collaborators online from 2025

February 16, 2023

The names of people who were suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II will become freely available to the public as the digitalisation of the 300,000 names in the special archive begins.

The Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging (CABR) contains the names of those suspected of having collaborated with the Germans in some form, betrayed fellow citizens, were a member of the Nazi affiliated NSB or fought in the German army.

The prosecution of collaborators started as soon as the war ended. Both the names of people who were convicted – some 20% – and those who turned out to be falsely accused are in the archive.

Some 1,900 of those who were found guilty spent 10 or more years in prison.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/0...ine-from-2025/
 
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