Right-wing broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland linked to anti-Semitic website

One of the leading members of right-wing broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland runs a website that has regularly published anti-Semitic propaganda, the NRC has revealed. According to the paper, Gefira’s online bulletins and social media posts contain claims that mass migration in Europe is a Jewish plot to ‘dilute the Western community‘, assert that Jews were responsible for 50% of the Netherlands’ slave trade, and rail against a global financial elite who ’cause economies to come into being and … cause them to collapse’. Eddo Verdoner, national co-ordinator for countering anti-Semitism, told the NRC he would be discussing the ‘pure hatred’ on Gefira’s website with the public prosecution service and called for ‘direct action’ to be taken. Internet Verdoner was appointed in April by justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus, who said anti-Semitism had become more prominent as a result of the ‘increasing use of the internet and social media and the conspiracy theories around Covid-19’. Media minister Arie Slob provisionally approved ON’s application to make programmes for mainstream Dutch channels in July, but warned that there would be ‘no place for spreading unreliable news and disinformation’.