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Dutch parliament passes motion calling ‘From the River to the Sea’ criminal incitement

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The Dutch parliament adopts by a wafer-thin majority a motion that says that chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” is a criminal act of incitement to violence.

The motion, which is not binding, passes thanks to a single vote in a 74-73 split in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch Parliament, which has 150 seats. The motion’s author is Maikel Boon, a lawmaker for the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders, which was the largest in the 2023 elections and recently announced that it has put together a ruling coalition under its leadership.

Wilders, an anti-Islam, far-right politician, in a vocal supporter of Israel and a self-described promoter of what he calls Judeo-Christian values. The slogan “comes right off the Hamas charter and is therefore a call for violence against all Jews worldwide,” the motion states. The slogan, which references the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, has emerged in recent months a common feature of anti-Israel protests.

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Hey Dutch people can you try voting for less psychotic people next time around?
- I tried but there's a angry and dumb political momentum going atm.
  Blaming the brown people somehow works
- I sure as hell didn't vote for him, but unfortunately a lot of the people in this country have become victims of his populism. Now while at first I was hoping his coalition would fall ASAP, polls have indicated that he's only gathered more support during the time it took him to form it. That means there's a non-zero chance that if we have re-elections sooner rather than later, he could get enough votes to rule without other parties. We just have to endure it for a bit until he inevitably fails and loses the voters' trust like Rutte before him.
- I’m trying ):
- You can't blame them, I bet they're pRoTeSt vOtErS, they just want to stick it to those in power. I don't see any better way to voice discontent with the government than to vote for Nazis - do you?
  
  You and I do, but I suspect that we are actually intelligent. A majority of people I have more doubt about.

Well then. Here we go:
From the window, to the wall.
- 'Till the Dutch repeal this law.
- Open the door, get on the floor!

Palestine Will Be Free.

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