(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he is surprised at the prosecution of his client and pointed to the right to freedom of expression.
The indictment of Van Doorn involved three tweets which the Public Prosecution Services (OM) said were a call for violence.
“Today in Palestine, dozens of young people were murdered by bullets from the occupying, Zionist forces. Paradise is getting crowded. May Allah destroy the Zionists,” Van Doorn tweeted in May 2018 adding a fist and a fire emoji.
