The Israeli president is welcome at the opening of the Holocaust museum

The presence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the opening of the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam is ‘extremely painful’, says MP Kati Piri on behalf of GroenLinks-PvdA. This controversial arrival overshadows the opening of ‘this important museum’. She believes that outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte should address President Herzog on Sunday “about his role and responsibility for the atrocities in Gaza”.

International Criminal Court

That does not go far enough, director Esther van der Most of the Plant an Olijfboom Foundation. She believes that Herzog should be arrested in Amsterdam and then brought before the international criminal court. She finds his arrival shocking. “Precisely at a time when a genocide is taking place in Gaza, a president of a regime that commits crimes against humanity comes into power. And he is going to the opening of a museum that should wake people up that genocide should never happen again.”

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