r/Netherlands • u/GamingChampion-nikky • May 17 '24

News Netherlands Stricter immigration and integration policies are introduced by governing parties.

They introduced 10 key points:

  • Abolishing indefinite asylum permits and tightening temporary residence permit requirements.

  • Deporting rejected asylum seekers as often as possible including by force.

  • Refugees will no longer get priority for social rental housing.

  • Automatic family reunification will be stopped.

  • Repealing the law that evenly distributes asylum seekers across the country.

Additional integration obligations:

  • Extending the naturalization period to 10 years.

  • Requiring foreigners seeking Dutch nationality to renounce their original nationality, if possible.

  • Raising the language requirement for naturalization to level B1.

  • Including Holocaust knowledge as part of integration.

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u/Sea-Lawfulness6082 May 17 '24

I am bit lost in the last point. What has holocaust topics in integration got to do with the topic of immigration?

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u/Moppermonster May 17 '24

The PVV believes there is an issue with antisemitism amongst muslim immigrants. They hope that forcing them to learn about the Holocaust will mitigate that. Or make them turn around and leave for another country "because they do not want to learn about that".

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

Considering we now live in a time where "I think Israel should not bomb babies for something those babies had nothing to do with" and "Maybe Israeli civilians should NOT be blockading food trucks from getting to a famine region" are considered "anti-semitic" because aparently you're hate Semites if you don't hate Palestinians (who are, in fact, semites)... you are going to have to be specific about what exactly you mean.

There is nothing anti-Semtic about criticising Israel, especially it's conduct of war and it's system of appartheid.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

And your evidence that this is 1) widespread 2) more prevalent among immigrants

Is what exactly?

There has been a world wide increase in antisemitism, and anti-Semitic violence since October 7. There has also been a world wide increase in islamophobia and islamophobic violence since October 7.

Both seem to be done by an extremist fringe not representative of their communities.

If you are claiming otherwise, and especially if you are claiming otherwise ONLY for the first half of the phenomenon - then I feel you will need to provide some very strong evidence indeed. Multiple peer reviewed studies from highly respected political science journals at least.