24 apr 2024 om 15:17 Update: 4 min. geleden
The Christian Union (CU) is going to press charges because the party office has been defaced with anti-Semitic texts. Among other things, that the party would support genocide.
A spokesperson for the Christian Union confirmed this after reporting from the radio program Sven on 1. In it, party leader Mirjam Bikker said that the building had been defaced and she thought the party was going to report it. She calls what was written on the property “not okay.” “I am happy that the police are also following up on this.”
The CU party leader often speaks out about 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 rising 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 about this on Thursday evening during the parliamentary debate on anti-Semitism.
There has been recent criticism from various quarters of the outgoing cabinet, which is said to have spoken out too little against the hatred of Jews.
CIDI sees an increase in anti-Semitism and fears that it will get worse
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) announced at the beginning of April that it registered almost 2.5 times as many incidents of anti-Semitism in the Netherlands last year as in 2022. According to the center, the number of incidents increased “explodingly” after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, after which the war in Gaza broke out.
More than half of the reports concerned written statements that Jews received, for example, by email or post. In 9 percent of the cases, it involved vandalism, such as buildings that were defaced.
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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