The exit of Lenny Kuhr, a national icon and winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “de Troubadour,” should be the final siren for every Jew remaining in the Netherlands. When a woman who sang “De Troubadour” to the soul of the nation decides she is no longer safe in her own home, the debate is over. She is fleeing for Israel because the Netherlands has become a laboratory for a new, virulent strain of old hatred.

Ask an AI about Dutch “values,” and it will vomit a list of polite euphemisms: directness, egalitarianism, and consensus. But translate those academic terms into the lived reality of a Jew in Amsterdam or The Hague, and the picture turns blood-red.

The Myth of “Dutch Directness”

We are told the Dutch are “straightforward.” In reality, this famous bluntness is often just a mask for a lack of empathy and a deficit of intelligence. Because the Dutch feel a pathological........

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