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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Netherlands

Police officers stand behind a cordoned off area after a stabbing near Dam Square in central Amsterdam, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Delong)
April 1, 2025, 6:40 pm
Amsterdam stabbing suspect acted with ‘terrorist intent,’ Dutch authorities say
Ukrainian, 30, accused of attempted murder for allegedly stabbing five people at random with multiple knives in a busy square last week
By AFP
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
Rembrandt van Rijn, 'A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,' 1632–33. Oil on canvas, 43 x 37 ⅛ in. (109.2 x 94.4 cm). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1953, accession no. 6089. (NGC)
March 12, 2025, 12:53 am
Drawing on Dutch masters, NY exhibit explores Christians painting themselves into Purim parable
Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther’s heroism echoed in their own struggle against Catholic Spain
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael C. Corder, File)
February 15, 2025, 6:48 am
Anne Frank’s best friend, to whom she wrote farewell letter in hiding, dies at 96
Jacqueline van Maarsen, a classmate of the diarist, was able to survive Holocaust as her Christian-raised mother had her and her sister declared to be non-Jews
By Ben Sales
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
This undated file image posted on a militant website on, January 14, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) marching in Syria. (AP)
December 11, 2024, 6:36 pm
Dutch woman gets 10 years in prison for enslaving Yazidi after joining ISIS in Syria
Hasna A. traveled to Syria in 2015 and married Islamic State fighter, made Yazidi woman do household chores and take care of son, was arrested upon repatriation in 2022
By AFP
Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders is honored as he visits the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 10, 2024, 11:42 am
In Israel, hard-right pro-Israel Dutch lawmaker Wilders meets, lauds Netanyahu
During whirlwind visit, Wilders meets president and attends Knesset session, is showered with praise for support of Israel
By ToI Staff
In this image taken from video, police stand guard forming a line near the Ajax stadium, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2024. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were targeted by anti-Israel rioters in an apparently pre-planned attack following a soccer match in the Ajax stadium. (AP Photo InterVision)
November 30, 2024, 8:51 am
Dutch ministers decry Israeli ministry’s report on Amsterdam violence
Officials call Diaspora Ministry report’s publication on social media ‘unusual,’ say allegations against Palestinian community weren’t shared via formal channels
By AFP and ToI Staff
Anti-Israel protesters vandalize the offices of the Christians for Israel organization in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, November 26, 2024. (Alexander Blom)
November 26, 2024, 2:45 pm
Protesters vandalize Netherlands office of pro-Israel Christian group
Activists at demonstration led by Extinction Rebellion and other groups daub slogans on premises of Christians for Israel, intimidate staff arriving for work with ‘genocide’ claims
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, is seen in an undated photo. (Oliver de la haye/iStock)
November 23, 2024, 12:54 am
Analysts warn ICC arrest warrants could pave way to future arms embargoes on Israel
Reinvigorated Dutch court case demanding end of weapons sales to Israel demonstrates possible fallout from The Hague’s ruling against Netanyahu and Gallant over war against Hamas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
L-R: Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp (Ralf Hirschberger/AFP), Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 21, 2024, 11:21 pm
Foreign minister nixes visit by Dutch counterpart after he endorses ICC warrants
Opposition’s Lapid blasts decision as ‘impulsive,’ says government must build coalition to prevent further warrants; Geert Wilders still mum on ICC decision
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema addresses an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council on November 12, 2024, days after mass violence against Israeli tourists following a soccer game in the Dutch capital. (Nick Gammon/AFP)
November 18, 2024, 6:40 pm
Amsterdam mayor regrets use of word ‘pogrom’ to describe attacks on Israelis
Femkle Halsema says Israeli government and Dutch politicians use term as ‘propaganda’ to discriminate against Dutch Muslims, says Israeli fans also behaved violently
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Police officers clear people away from Dam Square during an anti-Israel protest in Amsterdam on November 10, 2024. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP via JTA)
November 17, 2024, 10:45 pm
45 people being probed for violent crimes against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam
Dutch police say 9 people have been identified and arrested; number of suspects still expected to increase, based on analysis of security footage
By Agencies
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