Netherlands

F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

December 5, 2023, 10:51 am

Dutch lawyers seek court order to halt export of F-35 parts to Israel

Rights groups alleges selling jet parts implicates Netherlands in possible war crimes; Dutch government defends Israel’s right to self defense, says US would supply parts anyway

By Agencies

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, answers questions to media after announcement of the first preliminary results of general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, November 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

November 23, 2023, 8:22 pm

Europe’s hard right hopes best is yet to come after Wilders’ win in Netherlands

Anti-Islam firebrand’s Party for Freedom doubles in size, giving hope to national conservative populists ahead of European Parliament elections in June

By Raf Casert

VVD party members watch on a screen Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders addressing a speech after the announcement of the first exit polls of the general election, at the VVD party headquarters in The Hague, on November 22, 2023 (JOHN THYS / AFP)

November 23, 2023, 12:27 pm

Far-right anti-Islamist Wilders wins Dutch election, sending shockwaves through Europe

Wilders will begin talks with right and center parties in order to form a coalition, which, if successful, will make him the Netherlands’ most right-wing prime minister ever

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, reacts to first preliminary results of general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, November 22, 2023. (Peter Dejong/AP)

November 22, 2023, 11:52 pm

Far-right anti-Islamist wins Netherlands election: exit poll

Geert Wilders is known as the ‘Dutch Trump’ for his hairstyle and rants against immigrants and Muslims; if elected, he says he would move embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel

By Richard Carter

Activists hold up a banner denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s actions during the war with Hamas as they demonstrate at the entrance of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, October 23, 2023. (Aleks Furtula/AP)

November 9, 2023, 1:07 pm

Antisemitic acts rise eightfold in Netherlands since Oct. 7, Dutch watchdog reports

Researchers say not only have numbers grown, but range of attacks on Jews has increased as well

By Shira Li Bartov

Syrian immigrant Shevan ran the Amsterdam Marathon with Israeli, Palestinian and Ukrainian flags. (Courtesy of Shevan via JTA)

November 4, 2023, 4:07 pm

Jewish Syrian refugee faces increased antisemitism in Holland during war with Hamas

After competing in marathon draped in Israeli and Palestinian flags to support victims of the ongoing war, Shevan came home to a swastika and Star of David painted on his door

By Shira Li Bartov

Exterior view of the renovated Anne Frank House Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (Peter Dejong/AP)

November 3, 2023, 3:29 pm

Anne Frank House to serve as polling station for Dutch vote

Amsterdam mayor says ‘extra attention will be paid to the security of this polling station given the situation in Israel and Palestinian Territories’

By AFP

A photo of the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust, December 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

October 19, 2023, 7:51 pm

Polish-Canadian convicted for antisemitic projection onto Anne Frank House

42-year-old sentenced to two months for beaming Holocaust denial onto diarist’s Amsterdam home

By Richard Carter

This handout photograph released by the Royal Collections of The Hague on October 5, 2023, shows a scan of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands' original NSDAP party membership card, from his private archives. (Photo by Handout / Royal Collections, The Hague / AFP)

October 6, 2023, 7:40 pm

With damning document, Nazi past rattles Dutch royal family as its popularity wanes

Newly discovered card shows former queen’s husband Prince Bernhard was member of Nazi party, despite his denials; country’s main Jewish group demands investigation

By Julie CAPELLE

Members of a Latvian militia unit assemble a group of Jewish women for murder on a beach near Liepāja, December 15, 1941. (Bundesarchiv bild)

August 26, 2023, 9:43 am

With new technology, researchers find mass grave of Jews murdered by Nazis in Latvia

Grave contains victims of 1941 massacre in Liepāja that was filmed by a German soldier; Jewish museum director says site should be marked as a memorial

By Jackie Hajdenberg

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz at a conference in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 25, 2023, 10:41 pm

Top Dutch court confirms Gantz can’t be sued for civilian deaths in 2014 Gaza strike

Ex-DM hails Israel’s ‘strong and independent judicial system,’ as ruling upholds findings that senior IDF officers enjoy ‘functional immunity’ from civil proceedings in Netherlands

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bernard Luza. (The Netherlands Defense Ministry)

August 23, 2023, 9:53 pm

Dutch forensic investigators identify Jewish resistance hero 80 years after execution

Dutch Communist Party and People’s Militia member Bernard Luza joined the resistance after 1940 Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; was put to death 3 years later

By AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

August 20, 2023, 5:25 pm

Netherlands, Denmark to hand Ukraine F-16 jets; Zelensky hails ‘historic’ move

Dutch PM Rutte tells visiting Ukrainian president the warplanes will be delivered ‘as soon as possible’ following pilot training

By Mike Corder

US Air Force F-16 fighter jet is on display during the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, Monday, June 19, 2023 (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

August 19, 2023, 12:49 am

US says it will okay transfer of F-16s to Ukraine once pilots trained to use them

Denmark and Netherlands given assurances they will be able to transfer jets to Kyiv, State Department says, in a boon for Ukrainian military

By AFP

Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte listens to a question during a press conference after talks with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

July 8, 2023, 6:30 am

Dutch government collapses over bitter migration dispute

Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigns over ‘insurmountable’ differences on immigration policy, heralding a stormy and divisive election campaign

By Danny Kemp and Jan Hennop