People who commit anti-Semitic offenses should be sentenced to an educational visit to the National Holocaust Museum or a Second World War concentration camp, according to the VVD and D66. Such punishments are already possible under Dutch law but are rarely imposed. The two parties want the Justice Minister to investigate why, RTL Nieuws reports.
Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder, the former secret church on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, has been declared a European heritage site. The European Commission called the church a symbol of 17th-century freedom of conscience and religion in Europe, Parool reported.
There has been a clear increase in anti-Semitism in Dutch secondary schools since October 7, history teachers said in a survey by the Nederlands Dagblad. They mentioned drawings of swastikas on school desks, remarks about the Hitler salute, and even Holocaust denial.
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