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On Sunday, The Hague’s political establishment marches through #Amsterdam in red again. Job Cohen and Jozias van Aartsen join in, all virtuous. 281 former government ministers and diplomats wave a strongly worded protest letter at @RobJetten. Volt and the Party for the Animals are sending their supporters out onto the streets, and the SP is laying on buses from Groningen. This is not a grassroots movement. This is a sleazy party-political campaign in a red shirt, paid for with other people’s good intentions. Then there’s the stage, and that’s where it gets really embarrassing. There are speakers on it whom EW and De Telegraaf link to networks around #BDS and #Hamas. Lilianne Ploumen cheerfully shares the stage with them. @amnestynl dutifully writes on its own website that it condemns hatred, then simply hands those same speakers the microphone. Even #Cohen has to openly hope beforehand that no one carries Hamas signs in the march. Anyone who has to say that out loud before the march even begins knows full well who they’re walking alongside, and walks anyway. Meanwhile, #Arnhem paints a red line on its own city hall, and the Central #Joods Overleg is furious about it, and rightly so. #Groningen bathes the steps on the Grote Markt in red light, for the second time already. A cross between a brothel and a temple of virtue, paid for by the taxpayer. In Amersfoort, an exhibition about 300 years of Jewish history was nearly scrapped, out of fear. Jewish Dutch people are getting quieter, the procession is getting louder, and the officials are clapping along. Anyone who shares a stage with controversial figures and dismisses the fear of their Jewish fellow citizens as a distraction is not drawing a moral #RodeLijn. They are deliberately choosing the wrong side of it. So if you’re marching on Sunday, understand this. You’re marching while your Jewish fellow citizens cancel their gatherings and a museum nearly scrapped an exhibition about their history out of fear. Your good intentions are the backdrop. Others determine the story. Understand this. #RodeLijn #antisemitisme #Cohen #VanAartsen #Amnesty #Ploumen #Hamas ewmagazine.nl/politiek/2026/…