An Israeli flag was burned throughout a pre-Land Day anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam on Saturday, according to a video released on social networks by Week for Palestine Netherlands.
A masked male using a keffiyeh and what seemed a military plate provider raised a burning Israeli flag while other protesters shouted “long live Palestine.”
Individuals’s Celebration for Flexibility and Democracy (VVD) Amsterdam member Michael Vis declared on X Sunday that throughout the flag burning the activists called “death to Israel.”
הצגת פוסט זה באינסטגרם
” We are happy to withstand,” shouted protesters in a video published by Amsterdam for Palestine, later on likewise declaring that they “do not desire Zionists here.”
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The protesters likewise broke the Ramadan quickly in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr.
Vis shared another video on X which seemingly tape-recorded individuals in the meal shouting that they were “the males of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif.”
Flexibility Celebration Chairman Geert Wilders reacted to Vis on X, mentioning Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema.
They are burning flags in Amsterdam – the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025
Pro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to honor Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian vacation celebrates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.
Additional demonstrations were hung on Sunday itself, according to Monday social networks posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists showed in front of ING and Rabobank, declaring that the banks were complicit in expected Israeli criminal offenses. The activists required a boycott of the banks till they broke relations with the state of Israel.
” Viva viva intifada,” shouted the Sunday protesters. “Intifada, Intifada.”
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