Netherlands - Jewish groups slam Dutch far right MP’s World War II claim comments

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Thierry Baudet

The Hague - Jewish organisations have again reacted angrily to comments by far right MP Thierry Baudet in which he said Jews ‘cannot claim’ World War II.

‘World War II is not owned by a specific group,’ Baudet said in parliament during Wednesday’s debate on the budget.

Jewish organisations had asked MPs to condemn the use of the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during WWII by anti-coronvirus vaccine campaigners. Demonstrators say the coronavirus measures mean people who refused to get vaccinated are being excluded from society in the same way as the Jews.

In his initial response earlier in the week, Baudet said on Twitter that ‘the war is not yours, it belongs to all of us’ and put the Holocaust in quote marks. Asked about this in parliament, Baudet reiterated his earlier comments.

‘I don’t think they [the three Jewish groups] can claim the war,’ he said. The war is a ‘very interesting, very complex, question in history but it is not owned by a certain group or ethnicity’.

He also refused to apologise for putting the word Holocaust in quotation marks, saying that he was merely quoting someone else.

Beste Joodse organisaties,
1) De Oorlog is niet van jullie maar van ons allemaal
2) Niemand vergeleek de “holocaust” met de #apartheidspas, het ging om de jaren ‘30
3) Al 50 jaar doet “links” niets anders dan de Oorlog aanroepen
3) Kijk om je heen, wat NU voor onze ogen gebeurt! https://t.co/Wf2zixEgTQ

— Thierry Baudet (@thierrybaudet) September 19, 2021

Source: dutchnews