Albert Verlinde and Johan Derksen are directly opposite each other when it comes to the Israel boycott of AVROTROS. And Bram Moszkowicz? He calls on to cancel your membership. “Forbidden for Jews!”
The Netherlands does not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest when Israel also participates, AVROTROS has decided. The broadcaster ‘can no longer justify the participation of Israel in the current situation in view of the constant and serious human suffering in Gaza’. Whether the song festival will be seen if our country withdraws is unclear.
Johan Lyrical
Johan Derksen thinks it is a top decision. “I agree with it. I read that Ireland had canceled and thought: the Netherlands is the last in line, but I was overtaken by current events. A country that is so structurally misbehaved and so violates human rights, you should not let it participate,” he says in Today Inside.
He continues: “I also think that Israel should not go to the Olympic Games, not to the World Cup, not to the Tour de France. Totally insulate. It stops once, isn’t it?”
War crimes
Israel has to go on the criminal bank, says Johan. “Plasterk today has a column in De Telegraaf that what is happening in Israel is not a genocide. Then he mentions why not. Then I think: yes, but it is no less bad. They are war crimes. These are pernicious human rights violations.”
Albert Verlinde is 180 degrees in return. “I think it is ridiculous of AVROTROS. What has really annoys me for a while is that we are a bit hostage by people who think we can’t hold a congress, show or concert. There is not a lot of it. Then you will be threatened,” he brands into RTL Tonight.
Coward
They are cowardly at AVROTROS, says Albert. “I think it is a knee -lying to the shouts and drammers of this world. Why is the Avrotros so cowardly? They have brought out the press release, but there is no name. No director or press officer is mentioned. Cornald Maas says:” I’m not about it, that’s Avrotros. “
He continues: “Tonight I am watching EenVandaag and there is no one from Avrotros who explains something. Isn’t that strange? If you go a bomb in the community and then hide?”
Genocide
According to Albert, there is no genocide in Gaza at all. “Genocide is not yet a accomplished error,” he says. “The fact that in a democracy you put a large group of people, who also find it terrible, put away and soak off from the total world, I think something about that.”
Bram Moszkowicz evokes Instagram Up to cancel your membership on AVROTROS. “For Jews forbidden! What an outright shame, Avrotros.”