The Netherlands
A view of the Concertgebouw building in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Aug. 26, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
November 14, 2025, 10:54 am
Following uproar, IDF cantor to perform at Amsterdam Hanukkah concert after all — but not for everyone
The Royal Concert Hall had canceled the performance over the singer’s ties to the Israeli army.
By Shira Li Bartov
Michael Ben-Gad speaks at the GBNews studio in London. U.K. on Oct. 27, 2025. (Photo credit: Screenshot from GBNews, via JNS)
October 28, 2025, 10:47 am
Activists rally behind Israeli academics facing threats abroad
Over 1,600 sign letter backing U.K. economist Michael Ben-Gad as Dutch colleague faces similar harassment in Rotterdam.
By Canaan Lidor
Demonstrators attend a pro-Israel rally in Amsterdam on Nov. 28, 2024. (Credit: Courtesy of Christians for Israel)
November 29, 2024, 7:27 am
Thousands attend pro-Israel rally in Amsterdam
The municipality moved the event from a central location to a more remote point.
By Canaan Lidor
Freedom Party chief Geert Wilders speaks with Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the Farmer–Citizen Movement, at the House of Representatives in The Hague, Sept. 18, 2024. (Photo by Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images, via JNS).
November 21, 2024, 10:11 am
After Amsterdam pogrom, Dutch lawmakers vote to close antisemitic mosques
Dutch Justice and Security Minister David van Weel is set to present a broad strategy in the fight against Jew-hatred on Friday.
By Akiva Van Koningsveld
Femke HalsemaAmsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema speaks at a press conference about antisemitic violence in her city on Nov. 8, 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Municipality of Amsterdam)
November 8, 2024, 10:47 am
‘They came in masses,’ ‘attacked us all’: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans describe Amsterdam horrors
Eyewitnesses and victims say organized gangs targeted all Israelis, had clubs, knives; describe local police not responding and taxi drivers taking part in widespread assault
By ToI Staff
Dutch mobile police officers stand guard after violence broke out in central Amsterdam following the UEFA Europa League soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv, Nov. 8, 2024. (Photo by VLN Niews/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
November 8, 2024, 9:05 am
‘Pogrom’ in Amsterdam: five in hospital, 62 arrested, police say
The Israeli National Security Council told Israelis to remain in their hotel rooms, avoid wearing anything with Jewish or Israeli symbols and to return home early.
By JNS Staff
An antisemitic vandal defaced a statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam with graffiti reading "Gaza," July 9, 2024. (Credit: Courtesy of the Center for Information and Documentation Israel)
July 9, 2024, 4:20 pm
Amsterdam statue of Anne Frank defaced ‘for Gaza’
Bookseller Gert-Jan Jimmink, who initiated the monument 20 years ago, said it “represents the 14,000 Jews from this neighborhood who were murdered.”
By Akiva Van Koningsveld
Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt welcomes a journalist into his home in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, April 6, 2008. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
February 12, 2022, 7:16 pm
Dutch universities order staff to reveal their ties to Jewish and Israeli groups
The order followed a request sent last month by The Rights Forum, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group, to the offices of multiple universities.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Soldier salute during the official commemoration for Holocaust victims and war casualities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on May 4, 2019. (Ministerie van Defensie)
December 1, 2021, 4:30 pm
Dutch far-left party wants to end ‘inherently racist’ Holocaust memorial event
The group supports a blanket boycott of Israel, citing its commitment to international law and Palestinian rights.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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