Joram Baruch is a Jewish Amsterdammer and sees that society has only been polarized. He has lost many friends for the past 2 years. “I experience it as a kind of strange political game, in which I have to choose between Israel and Hamas. Somewhere in between is not good.” He understands the protests on the other side very well, but misses the dialogue.
Just like the 25-year-old Noa thousand. In 2023, this Jewish Amsterdam was involved in setting up part De Duif, an initiative of four young people – two with Jewish, two with Islamic roots – to keep talking to each other. In the meantime Noa is no longer that optimistic. “I have the idea that society has been split in such a way that I am no longer so well knowing where I am. You never do it well for everyone. I think it is a shame to hear the more extreme sides in the media. I try to stand in the middle and have an eye for everyone. But I notice that I do not find things behind in the Netherlands. annoying.”