A 60-year-old man from Ruinen has been sentenced to fifty hours of community service for insulting Jews on the internet. Twenty hours of this are conditional.
A 66-year-old man from Zutphen has been sentenced to a fine of 1,000 euros for his role, half of which is conditional. In June 2022, an article by De Ruiner appeared on a website in which Jews were blamed for the abuses in the world.
It was also stated that the ‘Jewish elite’ was guilty of conspiring against the world in order to gain world domination. And that this group sees other population groups as inferior, who must be subjected to their power.
The man from Ruinen defended himself by saying that the article was not aimed at Jews in general, but at a specific group of people, the followers of Zionism (a political movement that strives for a Jewish state). The judge believes that this should be seen in the context of the text as a whole, which showed the Jews in a bad light.
These discriminatory statements have been reported several times to the MiND reporting center, a reporting center for online discrimination. Requests were made more often to remove this text. This did not happen, and both men were prosecuted. They appeared in court in Amsterdam on December 17. The ruling was published this week.