(NL Times) There was widespread condemnation of anti-Semitism in the parliamentary debate on the Amsterdam riots on Wednesday. Every party leader who had a chance to speak before the break explicitly condemned it. PVV leader Geert Wilders explicitly blamed the riots on “Muslims” and “Moroccans” while others urged him to stop adding fuel to the fire.
“Anti-Semitism can’t be fought with Muslim hatred,” GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans said to Wilders, according to NOS and NU.nl’s liveblogs on the debate. D66 leader Rob Jetten: “You don’t combat anti-Semitism with even filthier racism.”
Wilders started the debate in the PVV’s classic anti-Muslim, anti-Morroccan line. “What the hell kind of country has this become?” he said, condemning the violence in Amsterdam following the Ajax vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match on Thursday. “We saw Muslims hunting Jews in the streets of Amsterdam, a pogrom of the worst kind.”
