(Jewish Group) Dutch Holocaust museum drops claims that Jews threatened to kill its former director
A Dutch Holocaust museum decided not to file a police report about what its former director said were death threats by Jews over his support of Middle Eastern immigrants.
The decision last week by Memorial Center Camp Westerbork followed a heated debate about the politicization of the Holocaust’s memory. Leaders of Dutch Jewry said the face-off featured false accusations against their community by the one-time director, Dirk Mulder.
Mulder, who is not Jewish, claimed in April that anti-immigration activists and people from “the Jewish circle” had threatened to kill him over his plans to host an event highlighting the plight of people whom he considers refugees. Jewish community leaders protested the initiative, saying it falsely equates immigrants’ ordeals and the genocide.
The allegation about threats, which Mulder has not publicly retracted, angered some Dutch Jews who doubted its veracity and challenged him to back it up or take it back. Mulder, who has since retired, has not made public examples of alleged threats.
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