EPA President Herzog at the Munich Safety Conference last month
NOS News•yesterday, 9:39 PM•Adjusted yesterday, 10:05 PM
A partnership of Dutch mosques, K7, calls on King Willem-Alexander not to attend the reception of Israeli President Herzog on Sunday. The mosques do this in a statement obtained by the ANP news agency.
The Israeli president will be in Amsterdam this weekend at the opening of the National Holocaust Museum and will also speak there. K7 calls his presence “a huge blow to anyone who cares about the fate of the Palestinian people and values justice.”
The Government Information Service says that despite the call, the king will be present at the opening, because the museum “is of great significance and national importance”.
Demonstrations expected
Herzog is under international fire. For example, in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 and shortly after the Israeli invasion of Gaza, he said that he makes no distinction between civilians in Gaza and Hamas fighters. In December wrote he wrote “I trust you” on an Israeli grenade that was then fired into Gaza.
The Rights Forum, the organization that advocates for the Palestinians and was founded by the recently deceased former Prime Minister Dries van Agt, previously called Herzog’s reception by the king “a slap in the face of the Palestinians”. Calls are circulating online to demonstrate for the Palestinian cause around the opening.
The Holocaust Museum announced earlier today that Herzog had already been invited last summer. He represents the Dutch Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Israel after the war. He also represents Israeli institutions that have made documents, photographs and video material available to the museum.
2024-03-07 20:39:31
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