From Anne Frank to anti-Jewish Sanctioning: The Netherlands' Betrayal of Israel
by Wim Kortenoeven • June 3, 2026 at 5:00 am
What was once known as the "Country of Anne Frank," a nation that had learned from its own role in the Holocaust... and quietly delivered critical military aid during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, now leads the charge at the EU in Brussels to punish the Jewish state for the apparent crime of Jewish survival....
The Jetten government coalition... has now also taken the lead in pushing sanctions against Israel....
The Dutch pro-Israel parties -- Geert Wilders' PVV, BBB, JA21, ChristenUnie, and the Christian-Zionist SGP -- were deliberately excluded from the governing coalition.
The Jetten minority government therefore governs on parliamentary life support from the very parties that despise Israel.
The Dutch betrayal mirrors a broader European sickness. Mass immigration from Muslim countries has imported a virulent strain of antisemitism that now crosses all political boundaries. Politicians realize only the electoral ramifications: Jewish populations are dwindling and Muslim populations are exploding. Post-Holocaust guilt, once a brake on Jew-hatred, has been inverted: many of the descendants of the perpetrators and bystanders now project their unresolved shame onto the surviving Jews and their state. The "oppressed" Palestinian has replaced the oppressed Jew as the object of European moral narcissism. The Europeans, who never forgave the Jews for Auschwitz, are finally free of guilt.
Europe, which cannot, or does not wish to, protect its own Jewish communities from daily harassment and assault, now presumes to dictate to Jews where they may and may not live in the Land of Israel.
The hypocrisy and moral rot are bottomless. It was Europeans who exiled the Jews from their heritage and cradle of civilization. It was Europeans who subjected "their" Jews to more than a millennium of discrimination, expulsions, mass deportations, and pogroms, culminating in the Holocaust. It was Europeans as well, who, at the Evian Conference of 1938, refused to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler. It was the British who issued the 1939 White Paper without a single protest from the other European democracies, and thereby slamming shut the gates of Palestine as a place of refuge as the extermination of the Jews began. It was Europeans (Polish, British, and Dutch) who devised the "Madagascar Plan" to deport Europe's Jews to a remote and uninhabitable island where they would surely perish.
Yet the Jews do not forget where they came from. Jews have lived in the Land of Israel continuously for millennia; and many of the descendants who had been forcibly dispersed, returned.
It is precisely this return that triggers such fury. Dutch authorities and many Dutch politicians now eagerly repeat the modern blood libel of "settler violence," -- all while ignoring the unrelenting terrorism committed by Arabs against the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and the rest of the Land of Israel for more than a century until today.
Established and thriving Jewish cities, towns, neighborhoods, and infrastructure exist in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan. These "facts on the ground" will most certainly remain in the future and likely grow into a home for hundreds of thousands of Jews now planning to leave a Europe that is collapsing as we speak. Israel will celebrate its restoration in the Land of Israel long after the Netherlands will have been destroyed by the Muslim and African invasions it invited in, and the remnants of what was once a great and moral country have returned to their natural state: a swamp.
[T]he Netherlands -- governed by a conspicuously childless political elite that includes Prime Minister Rob Jetten and Deputy Prime Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) -- stumbles along... effectively outsourcing its survival to a mass immigration that has apparently not come to Europe just for economic opportunity but to transform it fundamentally into its own image.
The Jews have returned home. The Dutch, it appears, are determined to leave theirs up for grabs. History will record the result.
The Dutch government's descent into open hostility toward Israel has recently accelerated further under the minority coalition of Rob Jetten that was sworn in on February 23, 2026. What was once known as the "Country of Anne Frank," a nation that had learned from its own role in the Holocaust[1], that faithfully represented Israel's and Jewish interests in the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1990, and quietly delivered critical military aid during the 1973 Yom Kippur War[2], now leads the charge at the EU in Brussels to punish the Jewish state for the apparent crime of Jewish survival and sovereignty in the Jewish homeland.
This is not policy. This is pathology.
