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.
Politicians who called the demonstration against Isaac Herzog's presence at the National Holocaust Museum 'antisemitic’ are playing into the hands of antisemitism
Minister Franc Weerwind is highly critical of two proposed amendments adopted by the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of parliament, that would allow the recording of conversations between prisoners and their lawyers. The outgoing minister said that these plans for high-security prisons violate the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He is therefore asking the Advisory Division of the Council of State for an urgent opinion.