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Thousands of protesters march demanding their government do more to halt Israel's campaign against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, during a demonstration in Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 5, 2025. (Peter Dejong/AP)
March 17, 2026, 10:54 pm
As schools and synagogues burn in the Netherlands, its leaders send mixed messages
In the wake of firebombing attacks in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, public figures are condemning antisemitism while simultaneously seeming to use the war in Gaza to justify it
By Bart Schut
Netherland's Foreign Minister David van Weel speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on December 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
March 17, 2026, 7:29 pm
Netherlands probing if Rotterdam synagogue attack has Iran link, minister says
Diaspora Ministry said Sunday that new terror group, which claimed responsibility for spate of attacks across Netherlands and Belgium, is believed to have ties to Iranian networks
By Reuters
A police car parked outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam, where an explosion was reported overnight, March 14, 2026. (Stéphanie HAMEL / AFP)
March 14, 2026, 12:41 pm
Blast damages Amsterdam Jewish school in ‘deliberate attack,’ mayor says
No one wounded in explosion at the Netherlands’ only Orthodox school, the latest in a spate of attacks targeting synagogues and other Jewish institutions amid Iran war
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A blaze caused by an explosion outside a Rotterdam synagogue on March 13, 2026 (Screen grab via X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2026, 4:32 pm
Explosion outside Rotterdam synagogue sparks fire, damages building; 4 arrested
No injuries reported; police say suspects may have planned attack on second Jewish house of worship; synagogue chair decries lack of action over rising antisemitism
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this image taken from video police arrest activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo)
March 25, 2025, 9:56 pm
‘Ashamed’ Amsterdam alumni to return diplomas after school cuts ties with Hebrew U.
Graduates, including a former Dutch Supreme Court justice and a former foreign minister, accuse UvA of capitulating to violent anti-Israel activists who occupied campuses last year
By Bart Schut
In this image taken from video, people march with Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, November 7, 2024. (AP Photo InterVision)
March 19, 2025, 11:46 pm
Dutch Jews decry courts, media, politics as mild verdicts handed down for Nov. ‘Jew hunt’
4 receive light sentences for roles in last year’s Amsterdam riots after soccer match with Maccabi Tel Aviv; critics note prosecutors didn’t charge perpetrators with antisemitism
By Bart Schut
Illustrative: The Israeli flag flies over a a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, Thursday Dec. 7, 2017 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
January 15, 2025, 5:17 pm
Dutch Jewry is growing slowly — but only thanks to Israeli migration
New report finds that without the steady influx of Israelis moving to the Netherlands, population of about 35,000 Jews would gradually decline
By Zev Stub
An archivist opens a sliding file cabinet where documents, some regarding WWII collaboration, are stored at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 10, 2025. (Aleks Furtula/AP)
January 14, 2025, 9:45 am
Frustration as Dutch online archive names accused Nazi collaborators, without details
Relatives unable to discover more info on probes into Nazi ties without traveling to make in-person request; research group says publication of list ’caused great social unrest’
By Molly Quell
Until January 1, 2025, public access to the Central Archives of the Special Administration of Justice (CABR) was limited. (Sebastiaan ter Burg, under Creative Commons 2.0, via Wikimedia)
January 3, 2025, 10:34 am
Netherlands grants public access to dossiers on 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators
Documents at Dutch Central Archives were previously available only to researchers and relatives of those accused
By JTA
People take part in a protest rally against antisemitism in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
November 29, 2024, 2:47 pm
Despite threats and a ban, thousands of Christians and Jews celebrate Israel in Amsterdam
Some 2,000 people attend Thursday night rally outside city hall after mayor nixes planned Dam Square demonstration, saying she’s unable to guarantee safety of attendees
By Bart Schut
Illustrative: An anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a placard reading 'Every Day is Oct. 7' while a banner reads 'From the Sea to the River' during a demonstration simultaneous with a pro-Israeli commemoration marking the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
November 28, 2024, 8:01 am
Last straw: Amsterdam ‘Jew hunt’ triggers push for Dutch Jewish migration to Israel
Reeling from anti-Zionism on the left and increasingly violent Arab and Muslim antisemitism, some local Jews flee amid fears the government is unwilling or unable to protect them
By Bart Schut
In this image taken from video, police escort Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters to the metro station leading them to the Ajax stadium, after anti-Israel protesters marched near the stadium, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2024. (AP Photo InterVision)
November 17, 2024, 10:16 pm
Who attacked Israelis in Amsterdam? Some Dutch politicians can’t bring themselves to say
Victims, Israeli officials, some Dutch leaders blamed local Arab and Muslim gangs; others in Holland refer to ‘youths on scooters’ and ‘taxi drivers,’ highlight Israeli hooliganism
By Bart Schut
Israeli-Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden speaks at a We Are Freyda talk in the Netherlands, November 17, 2021. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 17, 2024, 9:04 am
Dutch-Israeli author Yael van der Wouden shortlisted for Booker Prize
Novelist inspired by her frustration as a Jewish woman growing up in the Netherlands feeling like her culture has disappeared
By ToI Staff and AFP
Howard Teich, the founding chair of the Manhattan Jewish Historical Initiative, speaks at a monument in The Battery that marks the Jewish arrival in New York in September 1654, New York, September 13, 2023. (Julia Gergely via JTA)
September 12, 2024, 9:51 pm
NYC Council to vote on recognizing anniversary of first Jewish arrivals in city
Bill aims to mark little-known Landing Day, marking date of 1654 arrival of first Jews in then-New Amsterdam, and ‘celebrate the continuing importance of the Jewish community’
By julia GERGELY
Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam defaced with graffiti reading "Gaza," July 9, 2024. (Netherlands' Center for Information and Documentation Israel)
July 10, 2024, 2:31 pm
Anne Frank monument in Amsterdam vandalized with red ‘Gaza’ graffiti
Mayor calls incident ‘unbelievable disgrace,’ as city removes slogan daubed on statue; police arrest suspect in vandalism of Christian-Zionist community center near Utrecht
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
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