The eve of Kristallnacht appears to have been a favored time to protest against the only Jewish state in the world, with a bicycle boycott ride in Philadelphia targeting Jewish-owned restaurants and a massive rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sunday.
About 200,000 people, most of them dressed in red, poured into the streets in a demonstration called the “Red Line” protest against Israel, calling on the Dutch government to take more decisive action against Israel, such as ending all arms sales to the Jewish state.
The organizers of the protest included the Dutch branch of Amnesty International, the Rights Forum, Oxfam Novib, Pax, Save the Children, and about 150 other civil society and humanitarian organizations.
NGO Monitor has detailed the infiltration of some of these organizations, such as Save the Children and Oxfam, by Hamas.
The name of the demonstration comes from the metaphorical red line that Israel haters accuse their governments of allowing Israel to cross.
Tensions between Israel and the Netherlands have heightened since the war in Gaza, and especially since the Netherlands imposed sanctions on trade with Judea and Samaria to punish Israel for settlement expansion in an area in Judea called E1 (east of Jerusalem between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim) and for what it calls settler violence.
In September, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered Dutch diplomats working in Ramallah to surrender their Israeli-issued credentials within seven days in retaliation for the Dutch ban on goods and services from Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
The move followed the expulsion of Dutch diplomats from the Kiryat Gat International Support Center for Gaza after the Netherlands took measures against Israel. Sa’ar also decried the open antisemitism seen on the streets of the Netherlands and blamed the growing problem on the policies of the Dutch government.
After the Dutch sanctions, which took effect on Sept. 22 and banned goods and services from areas that the Netherlands deemed illegal, passengers arriving from Israel at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol were subjected to unusually lengthy and thorough examinations at customs.
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