Geert Wilders
Once a tour de force, the traditional debate was snubbed and deplatformed in “a drawing inward to an almost ghetto-like environment,” one viewer said.
“Total anarchy in The Netherlands. Arrest him and send him out of the country now!” said Geert Wilders.
Meanwhile, a resolution calling for the complete destruction of Hamas was adopted by the Netherlands’ House of Representatives.
Israel’s “fight is our fight since we cherish life and freedom while they [Hamas terrorists] love death and destruction,” the Dutch leader tweeted.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the country’s largest party, condemned the move as an insult to the victims of Oct. 7.
The failed draft motion triggered a Jewish walkout from the movement, once the political home of Dutch Jewry.
“The fact that our mothers in the West can sleep peacefully is because the mothers of Israeli soldiers lie awake,” Wilders said.
Diverging from his prime minister’s position, Maxime Prévot tried to draw a distinction between his personal views and his official function.
The move followed an accusation by the kingdom’s foreign minister, who said the Jews state “appears” to have committed war crimes in Gaza.
Geert Wilders explains why Europe’s anti-Israel sentiment may no longer be on the rise, and why the political wave led by Trump will bring global change.
Critics said the juxtaposition in the annual Christmas address was misguided and an exercise in “looking the other way.”
“We are witnessing a paradigm shift in Europe” as the radical right draws closer to the Jewish state, said Belgian lawmaker Sam van Rooy.
