MADRID 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Netherlands announced this Friday a project aimed at improving the security conditions of the Jewish community in the country, just two weeks after Ajax and Maccabi football fans from Tel Aviv carried out a series of incidents in Amsterdam. which some sectors of the Dutch Executive and also the Israeli Executive have classified as anti-Semitic.
Thus, the Executive led by Dick Schoof has announced that it will invest around 4.5 million euros annually in the fight against anti-Semitism, while implementing tougher measures such as the withdrawal of citizenship from those people involved in violence. anti-Semitic, according to information collected by Dutch radio and television NOS.
In addition, the Dutch authorities will promote a working group made up of representatives of the Jewish community, ministries, the educational sector, among others, and which will focus on increasing the security conditions of Jewish university students. “People do not dare to wear a kippah,” warned the Dutch Minister of Justice, David van Weel.
Although this announcement comes just two weeks after the incident in Amsterdam, the Schoof Executive has stated that it was already working on this matter before the event. In fact, some of the measures included in the plan against anti-Semitism had already been previously announced, including the withdrawal of subsidies to organizations of “anti-Semitic character.”
“The measures will only be successful if I no longer have to talk to the Jewish community about their safety, that they no longer have to emigrate, that children no longer say that they do not want to be Jews,” said Minister Van Weel, who despite He has defended the legitimate right to criticize Israel but “without being an excuse to be anti-Semitic.”