In Europe people increasingly think of each other in terms of 'us' versus 'them' however the current Israeli government is the most right-wing in the nation's history. Far-right politics in Israel includes ideologies such as ultra-nationalism, Jewish supremacy, Jewish fascism, Jewish , anti-Arabism, and ideological movements such as neo-Zionism and Kahanism.

During the National Remembrance on May 4, we commemorate the Dutch victims of the Second World War, the colonial war in Indonesia and of war situations and peace missions afterwards. Of the estimated 140,000 Jews in the Netherlands in May 1940, approximately 101,800 were murdered or died of disease and exhaustion, which amounts to a shockingly high percentage of 73%. The first deportations were in February 1941, the mass deportations began in the summer of 1942.


But those activists want to bring the Gaza war up front on that day.