The Dutch government's descent into open hostility toward Israel has recently accelerated further under the minority coalition of Rob Jetten that was sworn in on February 23, 2026. What was once known as the "Country of Anne Frank," a nation that had learned from its own role in the Holocaust[1], that faithfullyrepresentedIsrael's and Jewish interests in the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1990, and quietly delivered critical military aid during the 1973 Yom Kippur War[2], nowleads the chargeat the EU in Brussels to punish the Jewish state for the apparent crime of Jewish survival and sovereignty in the Jewish homeland.

This is not policy. This is pathology.

The Jetten government coalition (consisting of the left-leaning liberal and anti-religious Democrats of D66, the Christian Democratic CDA, and the center-right conservative-liberal VVD) has now also taken the lead in pushing sanctions against Israel within the EU-Israel Association Agreement framework. It has championed measures targeting so-called "violent settlers" and their "excessive violence," parroting a narrative that a devastating June 2025report"False Flags & Real Agendas: 'Settler Violence' — A Modern Blood Libel", by the Israeli group Regavim, dismantles as a fabricated, foreign-funded smear.

This harebrained Dutch obsession with Israel reeks of dark motivations, especially considering that the Netherlands is drowning in an escalating immigration crisis that is fueling civil unrest. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, asylum applications surged by 33% year-on-year, with Palestinian Arabs forming thesingle largest groupat around 1,100 first-time claims, the top nationality for asylum in January and February 2026. This influx comes on top of already strained housing, welfare systems, and social cohesion, amid repeated anti-migration protests that have turnedviolentin places all over the Netherlands.

Not having been entirely successful on the EU track in punishing the Jewish state, however, the Jetten government recentlyannouncedunilateral Dutchsanctions: a trade ban on products from Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The Jetten government stated:

"The expansion of illegal settlements and excessive violence by settlers are causing an ever-deteriorating situation, in which a two-state solution is moving further and further out of reach." [...] "We want to prevent Dutch society from contributing, through our economic activities, to an unlawful occupation and the maintenance of illegal settlements."

The decision can best be read as "Kauft nicht bei Juden" ("Do not buy from Jews"), and its small print formally even prohibits Dutch passport holders living in Israel from trading with Jews that live in the wrong place -- according to the Dutch government, that is.[3]

This "political sentiment" has rapidly built up since the violent collapse of the already existing "two-state solution" on October 7, 2023, with hatred of the Jewish state and everything that it stands for metastasizing to almost every sector of Dutch society, even uniting ideological arch-enemies. Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands Zvi Vapni recentlycapturedthat moment on X:

"A dangerous coalition formed in the Dutch parliament yesterday between the radical left and the antisemitic extreme right to pass motions against Israel. No moral qualms whatsoever! Shameful!".

The ultimate logic of this position is to expel Jews. The Dutch government, by labeling every Jewish city, town, and village beyond the 1949 armistice lines "illegal," is demanding that more than 900,000 Jews be forced out of Judea and Samaria -- the cradle of Jewish civilization, where Abraham walked, David ruled, and the prophets spoke -- the Golan Heights, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the adjacent Jewish neighborhoods, and additionally the high ground that protects Israel's densely populated coastal plain from being attacked by long-time bellicose neighbors to its east.

Source: Gatestone Institute :: Articles