I have said it before and I will say it again. Living in the Netherlands today, the moment the word Israel is mentioned, something snaps in people. It is not debate. It is not discussion. It is hysteria.

I have seen it everywhere. On the street. At work. On LinkedIn. People lose all sense of reason. Educated and uneducated, young and old, left wing, religious, secular. It does not matter. The reaction is the same. Rage, slogans, blind hatred.

At first, it did not get to me. I wrote it off as ignorance. Mass thinking. People repeating what they are fed. I told myself these are not serious minds, just noise. A kind of social madness. Annoying, yes, but distant.

But then something else started to happen. Something that does hit deeper. In discussions, especially online, many of the loudest anti Israel voices suddenly claim to be Jewish. That is where it becomes unsettling. Maybe some are lying. I hope they are. But what if they are not?

Because that changes everything

The Netherlands has a very small Jewish population. Around forty thousand. Yet in these debates, it feels like half the country suddenly presents itself as Jewish while tearing Israel apart. That........

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