Posts Tagged ‘Amsterdam’

Prestigious Amsterdam documentary festival faces boycott and protests following anti-Palestinian statements

Filmmakers are taking action against the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) following the festival’s mischaracterization and attack on the slogan “From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free” and unwillingness to stand in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. The IDFA, the world’s biggest international documentary film festival, has […]

Amsterdam’s Rembrandt House Museum transforms into tattoo parlour

“Highbrow to lowbrow” is how Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmaker describes his latest project – inking sketches by Rembrandt van Rijn onto the skin of visitors in the building the Golden Age master once called home. Source

National Tulip Day makes for a colourful splash in Amsterdam

National Tulip Day makes for a colourful splash in Amsterdam’s Museumplein Square. The Netherlands is the world’s biggest tulip producer. Source

Amsterdam: Housing justice now!

Amsterdam: Housing justice now! Our Demands from newly occupied Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 302 – Oct 23rd, 2022 e Mokum Kraakt via squat.net/ and thefreeonline Sunday 23 october, rolling out a giant banner, squatters’ collective Mokum Kraakt announced that it has squatted four days ago Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 302. House peace is set, preventing the police to immediately evict. […]

International Tattoo Convention returns to Amsterdam

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the International Tattoo Convention in Amsterdam reopens. Dozens of tattoo artists from different countries presented their latest work. Visitors came both to watch and to get tattooed, from small designs to full creations. Source

Amsterdam to house migrants on cruise ship moored in port

Officials in Amsterdam have approved a plan to temporarily accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a moored cruise ship. The ship will remain moored in the city’s port for at least six months from 1 October under an agreement with the central government, allowing residents to exit and enter freely. The Dutch capital becomes the […]

Thousands gather in Amsterdam to celebrate Pride

Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Amsterdam’s historic canals Saturday to celebrate Canal Parade. Source

Holocaust Survivor Claims She Knew Anne Frank In Amsterdam: A ‘Spoiled, Mean, Typical German Jew’

(Forward) Say it isn’t so! A “Holocaust” survivor — who grew up in Amsterdam with Anne Frank and knew her family — said she didn’t like Anne — a “typical German Jew.” Jewish writer Philip Graubart tells the story of his friendship with “Trudy” — a contemporary of Anne Frank: “…I became acutely conscious of […]

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Attacked By Police Dogs & Batons In Amsterdam

Massive numbers of Dutch protesters gathered in Amsterdam on Sunday to protest dranconian covid lockdowns and vaccination measures. The Netherlands went into a sudden lockdown on 19 December when the government ordered the closure of all but essential stores, as well as restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, museums and other public places until at least 14 January […]

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Mauled by Dogs and Beaten with Batons in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – JANUARY 02: Clashes erupt between police anti-riot officers and anti-vaxxers affiliated to far-right parties near Museumplein on January 2, 2022, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With riot police expected to be on strike, authorities have banned the Covid-19 lockdown protest in the Dutch capital. The postponed police protest is part of a series of […]

Protesters at climate demo in Glasgow, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Istanbul

A rain-soaked Glasgow was bracing for a second day of protests on Saturday as part of a global mobilisation against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming at a crunch UN climate summit. From Paris to Sydney, Nairobi to Seoul, dozens of events are planned worldwide to demand immediate action […]

From Amsterdam to Toronto, world’s mayors rally to stop antisemitism

 Mayors from some of the world’s major cities met in a virtual forum to discuss ways to stop the spread of antisemitism and eradicate prejudice from their municipalities. The first-ever “Mayors Summit Against Anti-Semitism,” sponsored by the Frankfurt am Main Municipality, in partnership with the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM), brought together 44 leaders from 32 […]

‘I’ve Lost Count,’ Says Owner of Amsterdam Kosher Restaurant After Latest Antisemitic Vandalism

Amsterdam kosher restaurant HaCarmel. Photo: Twitter. The owner of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam said this week that he had lost count of the times his establishment had been vandalized in recent years after antisemitic graffiti was discovered on its windows. An antisemitic slogan was scrawled onto the window of the HaCarmel eatery in the […]

An Amsterdam Museum Holds a Post-Holocaust Purim Relic

The puppets joined a storied tradition of fashioning Haman after real-life oppressors that peaked in the immediate postwar years. And seven decades later, Mayer-Hirsch’s childhood work is in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam, where curator Peter Buijs says the Hitler puppet is a “unique item” that provides a window into how […]

Amsterdam mayor wants state to return Nazi-looted painting now in the city’s museum

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Newborn baby girl found alive in underground waste container near Amsterdam

Police in the Netherlands have found a newborn baby girl alive in an underground waste container. The baby was discovered by the authorities late on Sunday evening at a residential area in Meernhof, southeast of the capital, Amsterdam. She is in a stable condition in hospital, police said. “At around 22.40, the police incident room […]

Sitting on the shore of Gaza, dreaming of Amsterdam’s canals

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‘Asia’s El Chapo’ arrested by police in Amsterdam

Dutch police have arrested the alleged leader of one of the world’s biggest drug gangs. Officers said they detained Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-born Canadian accused of running The Company, an organisation believed to dominate the £50bn-a year Asia-Pacific drug trade, on Friday. Mr Tse, who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El […]

Asian drug lord Tse Chi Lop arrested at Amsterdam airport

Asian drug lord Tse Chi Lop was arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of large-scale drug smuggling. The 57-year-old Canadian citizen’s arrest took place at Amsterdam’s Schiopol Airport, Dutch police said. The drug lord’s identity was confirmed by Australian police who issued an arrest warrant for the man in 2019. He is suspected of running […]

Blacks In Amsterdam Honor First Slave Brought To Holland By Wealthy Jewish Slavemasters

Diversity makes strange bedfellows — such as in the Netherlands — each June, Black immigrants from Suriname — a former Dutch colony where Jews oversaw the notoriously brutal plantations and slave trade — visit a Jewish cemetery just outside Amsterdam to commemorate the first Black slave brought from Portugal to Holland where he was buried […]

1000s Denounce COVID Lockdown In Amsterdam As Chaos Unfolds At “Unauthorized” Gathering

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Out of puff: Amsterdam mayor pushes for ban on marijuana-loving tourists visiting coffee shops

Tourists could soon be barred from Amsterdam’s famous cannabis-dealing coffee shops as Mayor Femke Halsema, continues her battle to rid the city of its image as a drug and prostitution haven. The patronage of coffee shops would be limited to Dutch residents only, according to the plan submitted by Halsema to Amsterdam’s city council on […]

IS operative faces possible life sentence in failed Amsterdam-Paris train attack

PARIS — A verdict is due Thursday in the month-long trial of an Islamic State operative thwarted in his effort to attack a French train five years ago by a dramatic tackle by three American passengers. The prosecution has asked for life in prison for Ayoub El Khazzani, charged with attempted terrorist murder. The Moroccan-born […]

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

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How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after WWII

AMSTERDAM — There’s a huge pipe organ where the Torah ark should be, but otherwise this city’s Royal Concert Hall looks, sounds and feels like a synagogue for one night each year. That’s because since 2015, this 132-year-old establishment, one of the world’s most prestigious music venues, has hosted an annual cantorial Hanukkah concert.  A […]

Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy

AMSTERDAM – For the past two decades, a conflict has been slowly escalating in the Netherlands over the wintertime custom of wearing blackface ahead of St. Nicholas Day, the pre-Christmas festival honoring the saint who inspired Santa Claus. Opponents of the custom say the portrayal of the saint’s sidekick, Black Pete, in processions and parties […]

Amsterdam Jewish schools lose city’s subsidy because of excess parent contributions, including for security

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Suicide Machine Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Show

A controversial suicide pod that enables its occupant to kill themselves at a press of a button went on display at Amsterdam funeral show on Saturday. Called the “Sarco”, short for sarcophagus, the 3D-printed machine invented by Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke and Dutch designer Alexander Bannink comes with a detachable coffin, mounted on a […]

Amsterdam now has the first plastic-free supermarket in the world

(Natural News) Last February, the world’s “first plastic-free supermarket aisle” was launched in Amsterdam. Shoppers at the Jan Pieter Heijestraat branch of Ekoplaza, a Dutch supermarket chain, can now choose from more than 700 plastic-free products such as cereals, chocolate, dairy, fresh fruit, meat, rice, sauces, snacks, vegetables, and yogurt. All items at the supermarket are packed in either compostable materials […]

1 Dead, 2 Injured in Amsterdam Street Shooting – Police

Dutch police have launched a manhunt after an unidentified shooter killed one and injured two more in a central Amsterdam street. A major emergency response is underway. Police confirm several shots were fired in the Grote Wittenburgerstraat area of the Dutch capital late on Friday. The motive behind the attack is currently unclear. Schietincident Grote […]

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