Binnenland·nltimes.nl·7 okt 2024

Amsterdam mayor clashes with VVD leader over Gaza-support protests

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema is clashing with VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz over Gaza support sit-ins planned at 16 Dutch train stations on Monday, October 7 - the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that sparked this past year’s violence. Yeşilgöz called the sit-in protests “tasteless,” “terrible,” and anti-Semitic. Halsema responded that Yeşilgöz is “criminalizing” support for Palestinians and thus “setting the stage for conflict for Monday evening.”