Carice van Houten has been criticized live on television. Journalist Ronit Palache calls Rick Nieman ‘sick’ that she is the voice of a war documentary.
A long documentary, The Occupied City, will soon be released about the invisible scars left by the Second World War in Amsterdam. Where were the people in hiding and where did the Jews who would later be deported live? Journalist Ronit Palache joined us yesterday to talk about it WNL on Sunday.
A bit bitter
Ronit strongly criticizes the voice-over in the program: Carice van Houten. “It is a little bit bitter that it was done by Carice van Houten, the voice-over, as she has now been one of the initiators of calling on Europe to boycott Israel because of the word ‘genocide’ that she used in the word takes.”
Host Rick Nieman: “And she now says that Israel is committing genocide? Okay, I didn’t know that.”
That bothers Ronit: “I find that difficult, because she is narrating a film that is about what genocide is. I don’t know if she fully understood it.”
Anti-Jewish
The fragment in which Ronit complains about Carice goes viral on social media and sets tongues wagging. “Carice van Houten was kept awake by the climate, wasn’t she? But apparently as a ‘convert’ you get anti-Jewish perspectives,” says NRC columnist Aylin Bilic on X.
Aylin pukes on Carice. “You can also stand up for the Palestinians without wanting to boycott Israel. The line between anti-Israel and anti-Jewish is starting to blur. And why does she talk about genocide if she knows what it means? Bad. She uses the word genocide, consciously, which is malicious framing and can be called anti-Jewish.”
Radicalized
Esther Voet, editor-in-chief of the Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, criticizes Carice. “Completely agree with Ronit! It’s a nonsense, undoubtedly the makers did not know how much Carice would become radicalized in recent weeks.”
There are also people who support Carice. For example, a certain Marije says: “You can weigh every word, put it on a scale or whatever, but it is really bad that civilians are being bombed non-stop in Gaza. It is a terrible situation and it makes people feel very uncomfortable and powerless. Me, too.”
Fragment
Ronit about Carice: