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Huib Kriekaard and Ina Straatsma-Elzes work at the Israel Product Center in the headquarters of the Christians for Israel group in the Dutch town of Nijkerk, June 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
August 20, 2024, 4:47 am
In Holland’s Bible belt, a Christian family’s pro-Israel empire shifts into overdrive
Since the October 7 Hamas massacre, the 45-year-old Christians for Israel’s product sales, public engagement – and risk exposure – have vastly increased
By Canaan Lidor
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest against Israel's President Isaac Herzog attending the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)
April 12, 2024, 11:15 am
Once a tolerant haven, Holland sees antisemitism surge as Jews across Europe scent danger
A record number of hate crimes reflects a post-Oct. 7 reality that’s making the continent’s Jews question their futures, but they no longer see Israel as their ‘insurance policy’
By Canaan Lidor
Marja Goldstoff holds the Camozuzah at the entrance to her home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 31, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 31, 2023, 3:34 pm
In Europe, soaring antisemitism popularizes a new invention: The camouflaged mezuzah
Disguised to resemble an alarm sensor, Camozuzah is brainchild of Ireland-based Chabad rabbi; it’s increased adoption underlines surge in hostility to Jews amid Israel-Hamas war
By Canaan Lidor
Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)
September 19, 2023, 12:51 am
In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons
A letter cosigned by more than 100 rabbis accuses Armenia of distorting the genocide’s memory to hurt the reputation of its rival, Azerbaijan
By Canaan Lidor
A French officer stands guard near a synagogue in Marseille on November 3, 2020. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
June 2, 2023, 10:42 pm
As Jewish leaders debate community’s future in Europe, their kids are already leaving
Antisemitism and the dwindling of European Jewry are eroding the hopes of some devoted activists to raise families in the communities they run
By Canaan Lidor
Leaders and members of the Jewish Community of Porto posing at the Portuguese city's Boeira Hotel on May 16, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 16, 2023, 3:32 am
European Jewish leaders gather in Portugal’s Porto to observe community’s revival
The number of Jews living in the northern Portuguese city has tripled in recent years thanks to new citizenship law and the arrival of hundreds of French-Jewish medical students
By Canaan Lidor
A plane trails a banner congratulating Israel on her 75th independence day in the Netherlands on April 26, 2023. (Courtesy of Christians for Israel)
April 26, 2023, 1:57 pm
In the Netherlands, Christians stage a solidarity-with-Israel flyover
Christians for Israel hires four planes to trail giant banners congratulating the Jewish state on its 75th birthday
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Israeli wine bought by the Dutch SGP party. (Courtesy of SGP via JTA)
July 15, 2020, 11:55 pm
Dutch threaten fine for stores selling Hebron wine with ‘made in Israel’ tag
Warning comes during government inspection of Israel Products Center, an importer and retail outfit run by Christians for Israel group
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Protesters turning their backs on Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs during a speech about the Christchurch killings in Amsterdam on March 17, 2019. (Diana Meijer via JTA)
March 18, 2019, 2:13 am
Protesters with Palestinian flags turn backs on Dutch rabbi’s New Zealand eulogy
In the face of the protest, which Dutch Jews call a display of anti-Semitism, Amsterdam’s mayor and others move to stand alongside the rabbi
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomon Jacobs' parents survived the Holocaust in hiding, and he often speaks about the genocide at Westerbork to schoolchildren. (Cnaan Lipshiz/JTA)
July 7, 2017, 3:21 am
In Holland, the Nazis built a luxury camp to lull the Jews before murdering them
While Jews in much of Europe were subjected to violence, torture, abuse and murder in camps, in Westerbork there was an eerie illusion of civility
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)
September 3, 2016, 11:44 am
Woman’s dying wish ends Dutch Jewish cemetery’s century of disuse
Funeral of Holocaust survivor Juliana Slaat-Luycx is first burial since 1920 at Den Ham, east of Amsterdam
By JTA
Anne Frank statue near the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)
August 19, 2016, 7:22 pm
Dutch Jewry can no longer sustain itself, local leader warns
Head of Crescas institute for Jewish culture says Holocaust, emigration to Israel have taken devastating toll
By JTA
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs (Meshulam/Wikipedia)
January 8, 2016, 6:35 pm
Dutch chief rabbi: Rabbinical pro-Christian statement ‘goes too far’
Binyomin Jacobs says document signed by 50 Orthodox rabbis ‘lumps the two religions into a single meatloaf religion’
By JTA
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs (Meshulam/Wikipedia)
August 31, 2015, 3:56 pm
Dutch authorities advised chief rabbi to avoid train travel
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs says he was warned last year to avoid international routes since he is easily identifiable
By JTA
Matisyahu performing at the Rototom Festival in Benicassim, Spain, August 22, 2015. (YouTube/via JTA)
August 26, 2015, 3:55 pm
Matisyahu affair highlights Europe’s conflation of Jew and Israel
Jewish support for Israel is becoming an excuse for blatant racism, as old and new anti-Semitism converge
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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