It has been a long time coming, but it’s been worth the wait. Now the Dutch will no longer be funding Palestinian NGOs, including all those linked to Hamas, that do not explicitly recognize Israel’s right to exist. More on this welcome news can be found here: “Dutch Parliament Conditions Palestinian NGO Funding on Recognition of Israel,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, January 30, 2025:
The Dutch Parliament passed a resolution on Tuesday to make funding for Palestinian NGOs depend on their recognition of Israel’s right to exist.
The Dutch House of Representatives passed a resolution by a margin of 70-67…
The resolution passed by the thinnest of margins, but it did pass, and for that we should be grateful.
The motion also addresses terror ties, citing the Netherlands’ decision to halt subsidies to the Ramallah-based Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC) following a terror attack by employees with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization.
If the Netherlands was willing to halt subsidies to the UAWC because some of its employees had ties to the PFLP, why doesn’t the Netherlands do the same for UNRWA, cutting off funding to that organization now that the Israelis have provided proof that nine UNRWA members took part in the October 7 atrocities, that dozens of UNRWA schools were used by Hamas to hide fighters and weapons, and that several hundred employees of UNRWA in Gaza were members of Hamas?
Last year, Dutch lawmakers discovered that the previous government had continued funding a terror-linked NGO, despite knowing they[the NGO] had subsidized the salaries of two Palestinians convicted in the 2019 murder of a 17-year-old Israeli girl….
Unsuspecting Dutch taxpayers were giving money to an NGO that had been linked to the Palestinian terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. That money was used to pay for increases in the salaries of two men who had been convicted of the murder of an Israeli girl, Rina Schnerb.
Olga Deutsch, vice president of NGO Monitor, an independent Jerusalem-based research organization, explained that the lack of vetting and oversight mechanisms has allowed billions of euros to be diverted to antisemitic, anti-Israel, and terror-affiliated organizations….
Think about the amounts of money that so many Western governments, not just the Netherlands, have been giving to Palestinian terror organizations, or to groups — such as UNRWA — that employ terrorists or members of terrorist groups. Olga Deutsch believes that the “billions of euros” have gone to those organizations, money which then is used to support terrorist attacks.
Deutsch pointed out that the Dutch government supported numerous organizations that misused aid funds, with a large portion being directed toward political warfare against Israel and the global Jewish community….
It’s not only anti-Israel terrorist groups that the Dutch government has been supporting. It also supports many organizations that are engaged in political warfare against both the Jewish state and Jews worldwide. Think of all the “Justice-For-Palestine” groups on campuses throughout the Western world that receive support to carry on their campaigns to delegitimize Israel and create pressure on the Jewish state to stop defending itself in Gaza and Lebanon — those “ceasefires” that may become permanent, and thus allow Hamas and Hezbollah to survive, and regroup, rearm, and recruit new members. Such pressure could also create an atmosphere that might lead Israel to agree to be squeezed back within the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea.
The Dutch government is being asked by NGO Monitor to do one thing: follow the money you donate to Palestinian groups, to make sure it does not end up being used to support terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Make sure, too, that none of the money supplied by the Netherlands is going to support those who, while they may not be terrorists, are working to support groups that delegitimize, and undermine, the Jewish state.
The government of the Netherlands needs to carefully rethink and restructure the aid it gives to the Palestinians, to make sure it is humanitarian in nature, and does not support those who work to end the Jewish state’s existence. It should not, for example, give aid to the Palestinian Authority as long as Mahmoud Abbas insists on continuing the “Pay-For-Slay” program that provides generous monthly amounts to both imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks.
During this legislative session, the Dutch Parliament also adopted a motion urging the government to support Gaza reconstruction plans and fundraising efforts.
This motion is a mistake. Do the Dutch taxpayers really want to pour money into the rebuilding of Gaza? Why? The Western world should not assume any responsibility for paying any part of the cost of that rebuilding. That rebuilding is estimated to cost $80 billion. This should be accomplished not with more money going from non-Muslims to Muslims, but with funds given by the fabulously rich Sunni states of the Gulf — Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait — to pay for their Muslim Arab brothers in Gaza.
However, lawmakers rejected several proposals related to Israel and the Palestinians, including one to tighten labeling and tariff enforcement on Israeli settlements. They also denied motions to link Dutch aid for Gaza’s reconstruction to Dutch companies and restrict it to civilian infrastructure, as well as to provide January funding to UNRWA, the controversial UN agency for Palestinian refugees that has come under fire for several links to Hamas.
The Dutch lawmakers don’t want to limit their aid to paying for “civilian infrastructure” in Gaza. That apparently means that they are willing for Hamas to again build up its now-demolished military infrastructure. Why would they want that? But even more important, those lawmakers in The Hague should stop thinking that the Dutch have some kind of duty to contribute anything to the rebuilding of Gaza. The Palestinians must instead go hat in hand to their fellow Muslim Arabs in the Gulf, with their near-trillion-dollar sovereign wealth funds. The Dutch are already paying out billions of euros annually in benefits to the Muslim economic migrants, chiefly Moroccans and Turks, who have been admitted in great numbers to the Netherlands, where they batten on every benefit the generous Dutch welfare state provides. The enormous transfer of wealth from Infidels to Muslims, now taking place all over Western Europe, has gone on far too long. To make Dutch taxpayers pay for any part of Gaza’s rebuilding would be too much to bear.
somehistory says
So now they mouth the “right to exist” while they work to destroy.
Billy says
ANY and ALL aid to Muslim Organizations and Countries should end immediately due to Islam’s funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, violence, and terrorism. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Western Muslims seek to ensure Islam’s legitimacy against Non-Muslim societies, to impose Islamic Law in Western Legal Systems, and to advance Islam’s totalitarian goals. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
ploome says
” terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.”
are manifestations of JIHAD
terror is their method of controlling;;ing and forcing their agenda
Every penny we send these moslems enables JIHAD. They have nothing to lose, because we keep rebuilding and supporting them and sending them aid no matter what atrocities they commit.
barney says
any requirements wrt Palestine’s right to exist ?