24 apr 2024 om 15:17 Update: 1 uur geleden
The Christian Union is going to file a report because the party office has been defaced. The party is accused of supporting genocide.
A spokesperson for the Christian Union (CU) confirmed this after reporting from the radio program Sven on 1. Party leader Mirjam Bikker said that the building had been defaced and that she thought the party was going to report it. She thinks it is “not okay” what is written on the property. “I am happy that the police are also following up on this.”
Bikker does not know whether the graffiti is a result of her calls to do something against anti-Semitism. “It should not be a reason that I cannot make my voice heard. I will continue to do so. As long as the Jewish community experiences this day in and day out in this way, which I am now experiencing at the party office, I believe that we have to stand together.”
The CU party leader often speaks out against anti-Semitism. The party wants, among other things, that outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte will talk to various sectors during a Catshuis session about the increasing hatred of Jews in the Netherlands. Representatives of universities, educational umbrella organizations, the business community, the cultural sector and the police should be invited to these sessions, says Bikker.
Rutte would then have to make “hard agreements” with them and the Jewish community to safeguard the safety of Jews. The party will make a proposal for this on Thursday evening during the parliamentary debate on anti-Semitism.
Criticism has recently been voiced from various quarters on the outgoing cabinet, which is said to have spoken out too little against hatred of Jews.
CIDI sees an increase in anti-Semitism and fears that it will get worse
Advocacy organization CIDI announced at the beginning of April that it registered almost 2.5 times as many anti-Semitism incidents in the Netherlands last year as in 2022. According to CIDI, the number of incidents increased “explodingly” after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. that led to the war in Gaza.
More than half of the reports concerned written statements that Jews received, for example by email or post. In 9 percent of the cases, this involved vandalism, such as defacement of buildings.
The CIDI also said it fears that the figures will be even higher this year. Several incidents have already occurred this year, including in Amsterdam and Utrecht. There, a mother of an Israeli soldier and a rabbi were attacked respectively.
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