Netherlands Designates Israel a Threat for First Time
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While remaining one of its largest investors.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/dutch-financial-routes-make-nl-israels-top-eu-financial-partner/
No.
The title refers to a decision of the NCTV.
The NCTV is a governmental organization.
The government plays a active role in the investment climate leading to the figures I refer to.
As a Dutch person, I don't know this source or the one it's referring to, and I can't find the report on the NCTV's own website, even when I search for the mentioned name (I can only find one from 2022, that doesn't seem to mention Israel).
The document is here. Israel is mentioned multiple times in it, though most times as a target of threats. However, there's also this (DeepL translation):
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::: spoiler Dutch original
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Ah, thanks! So it was the AIVD, not the NCTV, I was just looking in the wrong place :)
This tracks, although "designates a threat" sounds like a bigger deal than highlighting these two widely-reported actions, i.e. I understand why this didn't make the news here. It certainly doesn't signify a sudden change in Dutch policy vis a vis Israel.
I think it's a collaboratively created document which, as you noticed, used to be hosted on the site of NCTV but is now hosted on the site of AIVD. :)
That makes sense, thanks!
Lmao the americans have a law about invading your country and you guys are doing nothing about it.
Simp
For context: that's the The Hague invasion act, which basically says that the US president doesn't have to ask US congress for approval to invade the Netherlands if the ICC prosecutes US government employees.
Of course, that has nothing to do with caring about the reliability of your information and looking for sources.
It is a bit broader than that:
A) it is not restricted to the Netherlands. Any country holding a covered person at request of the ICC is fair game.
B) It is not restricted to US persons. NATO members and major non-NATO allied are covered as well, so long as they: are not party to the ICC and wishes to be exempt from ICC jurisdiction.
C) It is not restricted to government employees. Anyone working on behalf of the government qualifies.
Fair, but we're only getting more off topic :)
finally!
Given that The Hague is in the Netherlands, and that both the UK and Germany would turn a blind eye to any Israeli operation to rescue its personnel from the ICJ launched from their territories, that’s probably a reasonable assessment.
See https://feddit.org/comment/8020018
It's not saying that Israel might launch an operation in the Netherlands, just that it's trying to influence public opinion and to interfere in the operations of the ICC and ICJ (in the sense that US sanctions did).
What a bunch of baseless conspiracy myths that aim to do nothing more than divide Europe at a time it needs to stand together more than ever
The US have a law about invading your country. What about designating them a threat, simps?
Ahaahahah this platform really are nothing but Americans suppremacists whining at the idea that in any other relationship than a colonial one, laws like the Hague invasion act would be a cassis belli.
We should shoot at Americans on sight. More world peace that way