Holland: "We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem"

Remigration is the solution.

Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest ruling party in the Netherlands, the common sense immigration PVV, was memed into popularity among average non-political society for this tweet from January this year which is intensely amusing to English speakers.

Due to the shared Germanic roots between Dutch and English, most of the Western world could figure out what he was saying. (Sad news: The way it’s pronounced in the quirky and beautiful language of our sub-sea-level European brethren isn’t as entertaining as the way Americans imagine it.)

Wilders identified that the Netherlands has a problem of mass Muslim immigration and was expressing opposition to the coercion law, which would mandate municipalities to make accommodations for migrants seeking asylum. His party won the majority of seats in last year’s election to solve it.

He said it again last week when ethnic riots erupted in Amsterdam when Ajax faced off against Maccabi from Tel Aviv.

Major news headlines read:

• “Amsterdam’s shameful failure to protect Jews: Thursday night was an indictment of Europe’s collective will to defend its Jewish communities against rising extremism.” – The Spectator

• “’Scooter Youths,’ Not Soccer Fans, Hunt Jews in Amsterdam.” – Wall Street Journal

While these headlines may lead one to believe Amsterdam experienced another random Kristallnacht, the other sources claim that Maccabi soccer fans skirmished with police, removed Palestinian flags from private homes, beat up various Arab Uber/taxi drivers and vandalized their vehicles, disrespected the moment of silence for Valencia flood victims, shot fireworks in the stadium, and sang various degrading songs about Arabs. The local Berber, Turkish, Moroccan, and Palestinian community jumped them.

The Jewish Chronicle reported:

Chairman of the Maccabi World Union, Amir Peled, told New York-based activist Lizzy Savetsky that the attackers “used the Uber network… to organise themselves, they made Uber WhatsApp groups and most of the attackers belonged to the Uber drivers' network.”…

Chanan Hertzberger, the chairman of the Central Jewish Council in the Netherlands, said, “There even seems to be app traffic that shows that they meticulously prepared this pogrom, because that is what it was,” he said. “They moved in groups, cornering their targets.”

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof tweeted that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explain “the perpetrators will be identified and prosecuted.” At one point in the evening, he ordered two rescue planes to evacuate fans.

All this occurred despite the actions of local authorities to limit the potential for violence. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema moved a pro-Palestinian away from the stadium, and Mossad agents traveled with the Maccabi soccer team to ensure their protection.

The problem is not however anti-Semitic extremism as Dutch leaders may suggest. The problem is a Dutch multicultural society that continues to import foreign conflicts.

The Jewish population in the Netherlands arrived in the 16^th century as refugees from Portugal and Spain. At the time, the Jewish foreign interest aligned with the native Dutch interest and they helped The Netherlands gain independence from Spain during the Eighty Years’ War.  Since then, Jews have been a consistently small minority of the population now standing at about 1.5%. The Arab population of the Netherlands is quite recent, the first 100,000 arriving between 1965 and 1973. Tracking religion is the easiest way to keep track of Arab immigrants as a group in the Netherlands. While proportionally unnoticeable before 2010, people who practice Islam now make up 6% of the population.

Refugees from middle eastern conflicts flee to Europe, and Dutch leaders are facilitating the unsustainable cycle of supplying Israeli military aid while also housing its enemies as refugees.

The good news is that there is a way out!

Policy changes can and should be made to limit all foreign influence. This begins with by halting immigration and establishing a foreign policy that promotes peace so recent immigrants who do remigrate can come home to a stable home country.

Following October 7^th, after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, visa cancellation was seriously proposed. In the UK, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick whose wife and children are Israeli, asked the Home Office to revoke visas for foreign students, academics, and workers who praise Hamas. France and Germany have revoked visas for foreigners who expressed support for Hamas. And the US former head of UCIS under George W. Bush said any pro-Palestine demonstrators who are foreign students or workers should have their visas revoked. (See our reporting in full here: “Visas for Me, but Not for Thee.”

Although fervently supportive of military aid to Israel, Geert Wilders deserves praise for being the only Dutch party leader in parliament brave enough to correctly identify the conflict as an ethnic one saying “we saw Muslims hunting Jews on the streets of Amsterdam,” and recommended deporting those convicted at a recent parliamentary debate.

As of our reporting on Dutch demographics last summer, there are 200,000 – 300,000 migrants who have arrived since 2015 who have yet to qualify for Dutch citizenship. Thes visas may be revoked or denied extension. Imposing further restrictions on the extension of dual citizenship is another policy option. Half of dual citizenship holders in the Netherlands, about 750,000 people, are Turkish and Moroccan alone.

More good news: Arab countries want their citizens back!

In “A Vision of Arab Repatriation,” we reported that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is eager to welcome the Syrian diaspora home to rebuild the country, a solution to ethnic conflicts in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, as Denmark considers the country stable enough to return to. Meanwhile, Lebanon hopes to recover its educated upper class it desperately needs that fled to the West.

These policies apply to Israel as well. Since 1950, two years after its establishment as a state, Israel enacted the Law of Return policy which offers Jews, people with one or more Jewish grandparent, and their spouses the right to relocate to Israel and gain Israeli citizenship. According to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research 63,000 Jews currently living in the Netherlands would be welcomed to Israel under this policy.

Foreign aid negotiations could be dependent on such proposals. Foreign spending should be redirected to housing and humanitarian aid partnered with sanctions that ban the sale of arms, armaments, and other military assets to those countries and rebel groups in the Middle-East.

Refugee status was never meant to be permanent.  Western governments must demand an end to the incredible violence in the middle east and return the citizens these nations so desperately need.

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