(JNS) A top Dutch jurist on Sunday criticized prosecutors for saying Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer was guilty of hate speech when she noted publicly that many Muslim immigrants are antisemitic.
Afshin Ellian, a Tehran-born professor of law at Leiden University, in an op-ed in EW magazine on Sunday called the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service’s finding earlier this year, laid out in a legal document, “insulting and irrational.”
The prosecutors said that Keijzer, who is also the minister of housing and spatial planning, was guilty of “incitement to intolerance” that “contradicts the foundations of democracy.”
Despite their assertion that she had broken the law, the prosecutors decided not to indict Keijzer, a lawmaker from the right-wing Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB).
