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Author accused of antisemitism to speak at Dutch Holocaust commemoration


Jewish Ledger
Author accused of antisemitism to speak at Dutch Holocaust commemoration
(JTA) – The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making antisemitic statements about Dutch Jews. The National 4 and 5 May Committee made the announcement Jan. 18 of Abdelkader Benali to deliver the annual address at the main memorial ceremony this year in Amsterdam on May 4, the date when the Dutch nation remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of Nazism, including 102,000 Dutch Jews. The king and other dignitaries attend the event.
One of the Netherlands’ best-known war correspondents, Benali went on an antisemitic rant in July 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon, during a conversation they had at a party. “Benali let loose,” wrote Doornbos, a former reporter for the NOS national broadcaster and a correspondent who specialized in the Muslim world. Doornbos quoted Benali as having said that southern Amsterdam “is full of Jews. And that’s annoying that there are so many of them. Amsterdam Jews. Makes you feel uneasy as a Moroccan. It looks like Israel. So many Jews, it just feels crazy.”

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Author who made controversial comments on Jews quits Dutch Holocaust event


Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (CC BY-SA Matěj Baťha/Wikimedia Commons)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protests by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide.
In a statement published Thursday on the website of the National 4 and 5 May Committee, Dutch-Moroccan author Abdelkader Benali wrote that on the national commemoration day, “we come together to commemorate and the discussion around my remarks must not distract from that. So I’ve decided it’s better if someone else deliver the speech.”

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Author who railed against Jews quits as speaker for Dutch Holocaust commemoration following storm of criticism


Author who railed against Jews quits as speaker for Dutch Holocaust commemoration following storm of criticism
Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons)
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide.
In a statement published Thursday on the website of the National 4 and 5 May Committee, Dutch-Moroccan author Abdelkader Benali wrote that on the national commemoration day, “we come together to commemorate and the discussion around my remarks must not distract from that. So I’ve decided it’s better if someone else deliver the speech.”

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Author accused of anti-Semitism is keynote speaker at Dutch WWII memorial


Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews.
The national committee for Remembrance of the Dead Day made the announcement Monday of Abdelkader Benali to deliver the annual address at the main memorial ceremony this year in Amsterdam on May 4, the date when the Dutch nation remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of Nazism, including 102,000 Dutch Jews. The king and other dignitaries attend the event which memorializes all military and civilian deaths in kingdom’s wars since the start of World War Two, including those who have died on peace-keeping missions.

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Dutch panel picks author accused of anti-Semitism as keynote speaker for Holocaust memorial commemoration


Dutch panel picks author accused of anti-Semitism as keynote speaker for Holocaust memorial commemoration
Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons)
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews.
The National 4 and 5 May Committee made the announcement Monday of Abdelkader Benali to deliver the annual address at the main memorial ceremony this year in Amsterdam on May 4, the date when the Dutch nation remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of Nazism, including 102,000 Dutch Jews. The king and other dignitaries attend the event.

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