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From Anne Frank to anti-Jewish Sanctioning: The Netherlands’ Betrayal of Israel
Wim Kortenoeven
June 3, 2026

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, 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, 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…Not having been entirely successful on the EU track in punishing the Jewish state, however, the Jetten government recently announced unilateral Dutch sanctions: a trade ban on products from Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. READ MORE

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