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Cirsium
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Do I really need to say, here on DU, that not all Jews support the Israeli government actions and not all people who support the Israeli government actions are Jewish? You have complained about collective punishment and guilt by association in regards to the Palestinians. Yet here you are using the exact same logic.
You can't judge the group by the individual, and you can't judge the individual by the group. To do so is the essence of bigotry, and you have just expressed a bigoted point of view. That is unacceptable.
The Dutch did not do much fighting in the war and they certainly were not fighting "in defense of Jews."
Many of those parents and grandparents you refer to were Dutch Nazis or Nazi collaborators. The Dutch have kept much of the information about that hidden for decades. Here is Dutch author Sytze van der Zee, former editor of Het Parool newspaper, making the case for keeping the records about Dutch collaboration with the Nazis secret:
By opening the files, he said, “we go back to the years of shame,” he said. “I’d say, wait another 50 years or so.”
100,000 were members of the Dutch Nazi party during the war. 51,000 Dutch citizens received prison sentences after the war for collaborating with the Nazis.
Dutch historian Ad van Liempt’s landmark book, “Hitler’s Bounty Hunters,” revealed a network of Dutch privateer “Jew hunters” who were paid “head money” for each person they delivered to the police. He said in an interview that the archives were essential to his research.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/dutch-files-accused-nazi-collaborators.html
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