(JNS) A Dutch court will need to determine if it’s illegal to discuss antisemitism in the context of Muslim culture, following an appeal by a deputy prime minister regarding hate crime allegations leveled against her.
Mona Keijzer, who is also the minister of housing and spatial planning, on Sunday announced her plans to appeal after prosecutors in July charged her with “incitement to intolerance” for remarks she made on a television talk show.
Speaking in defense of her policy of making Holocaust studies mandatory as part of new citizens’ naturalization process, she said, “What you see is that many asylum seekers come from countries with Muslim faith. We know that Jew-hatred there is a part, almost, of the culture.” She noted that not all Muslims are antisemitic.
