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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: Amsterdam & Tel Aviv [04.07.2015]

Adam Keller in About a fishing boat and sitting ducks

An item which got strangely little attention: The City Council of Amsterdam rejected a proposal to enact a Twin-City agreement with Tel-Aviv - prominent party representatives citing Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. We have evidently come a long way since 1973, when the Dutch were the quintessential friends of Israel, targeted by an Arab oil boycott. Future historians might well count this as the most significant of all the events enumerated here.

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