The Dutch Cabinet

The Dutch Cabinet

By: Phyllis Chesler

Breaking News! The Dutch House of Representatives debated for many hours and expressed “horror and condemnation at the stalking, chasing, and mistreating of Israeli football fans.”

So far so good. At least it sounds good, right?

The Dutch Cabinet is now focused on a potential range of “strategies against anti-Semitism.” Their options include “extending the possible revocation of Dutch nationality (for) anti-Semitic violence for those with dual Dutch-Moroccan citizenship.” Morocco automatically issues citizenship to all generations of Dutch citizens who have Moroccan ancestry.

And what if Morocco refuses asylum even to a Moroccan citizen who is an exceptionally bad dude, who has committed a major criminal and/or a serious terrorist act? Is Devil’s Island the alternative?

Geert Wilders from the Netherlands and The government are moving quickly since the program to get laws or amend existing ones to start deportations – The public also had enough

— Carmel (@carmel_hilder) November 14, 2024

The Cabinet also discussed: “banning #face-covering clothing at demonstrations;” “increasing the penalties for anti-Semitism;” “Banning organizations like Samidoun;” Budgeting “4.5 million euros for tackling anti-Semitism, 1.2 million of that for the security of Jewish schools.”

Ban face veils? So that cowardly bullies can be identified? I doubt that will happen. What would the penalties be? If severe enough, if actually implemented–well, we’ll see.

The Dutch government banned demonstrations–and yet, defiantly, the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic mobs continued demonstrating for days, even setting fire to a tram.

Geert Wilders Demands Removal of Dutch Passports for Moroccan ‘Jew-Hunting’ Rioters: ‘This is Terror, Plain and Simple’ (Video) https://t.co/x0cTmNMIzt via @AmyMek

— butlerson (@freedombus_1) November 14, 2024

Since 2017, nearly sixty cases to “revoke Dutch passports in the interest of national security…(including a) conviction for a #terrorist offense. Almost all of these decision have been challenged in court.”

What will the Cabinet really do? All of the above? Any of the above? And how quickly will such strategies be implemented? The Cabinet “needs more time…”

The Jews of Europe, the Jews of Israel do not have time. It’s only a matter of hours, perhaps days, before another Nazi-like Islamist Jew-hunt will be perpetrated in Europe.

We’ve been living through countless boycotts, Wanted Posters of Jewish faculty being posted on university walls, ripping down posters of Israeli hostages, signing petitions to boycott almost everyone in Israel, aggressive campus encampments, mobs in the streets, individuals and small groups attacking visible Jews, visible Jewish establishments, etc.

A guest house in Italy just refused to honor the reservations made by Israelis.

Thanks to Jean Golden and Marian Bouwmeester for calling this to my attention.