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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-short-review-of-Dutch-anti-Israel-incitement-466684
Dutch Anti-Israel Incitement
(Jerusalem Post) Manfred Gerstenfeld - The Anne Frank story has entirely overshadowed a far more important one: the total disinterest of the Dutch government in exile in London during the Second World War in the fate of its Jewish citizens under the German occupation. Three-quarters of the 140,000 Jews in The Netherlands were murdered in the German death camps in Poland. It has only recently been published that Dutch SS volunteers participated in mass killings of Jews in Eastern Europe. Looking at contemporary Dutch anti-Israel sentiment, a 2011 study found that 38% of the Dutch population agreed that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians. The most dangerous political party to Israel nowadays is Labor, the junior partner in the current government led by liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The Labor Party incites against Israel in many ways and has, with the D66 Democrats and the Christian Democrats, also promoted a parliamentary motion which may lead to sanctions against Israel. The writer is chairman emeritus of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.