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Rein Bijlsma urged readers to remember the images. He wrote that people could now experience for themselves what it was like to witness the rise of Nazism and the growing hatred of Jews in the 1930s, and stated that this was now happening on the streets, in squares, at stations, and in the media. According to him, it seemed that no one in power was willing to do anything about it, and society had once again capitulated. #geschiedenis #antisemitisme #maatschappij (translated)

Wouter Duyck wrote that he was a civil servant and author and had a company. According to him, the net tax on income from writing or performing was until recently 7.5 percent. Although the cost allowances had since been adjusted, he stated that writers and performers still only paid about 15 percent tax on income up to 77,000 euros. Duyck argued that many people who advocated higher taxes in newspapers fell under that scheme and wrote that he had never heard the system in the media being questioned. #belasting #fiscaliteit #auteurschap (translated)

Maarten Bakker called the police's actions in Utrecht "incredibly scandalous." He wrote that the police had arrested Jigal Krant, whom he referred to as a victim, and allowed demonstrators to continue their intimidating actions on October 7 without interference. Bakker used derogatory language about the demonstrators and called the Netherlands the dumbest country in Western Europe. #schandalig #Utrecht #intimidatie (translated)

Bart Nijman wrote that Dutch media in 2015 portrayed participants in the Ukrainian referendum, including GeenPeil, as antidemocratic and pro-Putin. Nevertheless, he called the referendum a great success. In 2017, according to him, newspapers and parts of the NPO tried to boycott GeenStijl but were unsuccessful. He also accused the media of labeling critics of Greta Thunberg as climate deniers in 2019 and of presenting support for Black Lives Matter as a civic duty in 2020, while according to him, Zwarte Piet was pressured with unfounded accusations of racism. During the coronavirus pandemic, according to Nijman, the media shielded criticism of the measures and labeled those who deviated as irrational. He argued that this permanently damaged the credibility of the press and trust in its fairness and objectivity. From 2021, he stated that media opposed the farmers' movement with reporting on nitrogen that journalists did not understand sufficiently, and starting in 2022, labeled critics of Ukrainian accession to the EU or NATO's contribution to the escalation as pro-Putin. Nijman wrote that after October 7, 2023, many media condemned Israel and Jews in general and based reporting on genocide and starvation on lies. According to him, the media concealed the reasons for Hamas' attack and subordinated facts to information from NGOs, including Oxfam. He also claimed that journalists who disagreed were not offering enough public dissent, partly because they had to save for a mandatory heat pump in 2028. Furthermore, Nijman accused the media of shifting their own problems onto disinformation and Elon Musk and of leaving X for their own, small online environment. According to him, DPG, RTL, and the NPO imposed standards that many Dutch people did not conform to. He wrote that readers should hate the mainstream media even more and asserted that the free press had again chosen the wrong side on October 7. #Media #Nederland #VrijePers (translated)

Geert Noels wrote that the memo from Vooruit about management companies contained grotesque methodological and accounting errors according to him. He stated that newspapers and parties could easily expose this and said that entrepreneurs in the country were fair game. https://t.co/ErLtEX2K0E #managementvennootschappen #ondernemen #journalistiek (translated)

"We strongly condemn yet another serious attack on journalists trying to cover events in the West Bank and demand a thorough investigation. It is unacceptable that armed settlers can beat and rob journalists in front of Israeli security forces who do not even attempt to intervene," said AFP's global news director Phil Chetwynd. #Izraelis #VakarųKrantas #žurnalistika (translated)

Israeli settlers in the West Bank beat AFP photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh and shot at him and his colleague while they were preparing a report about violence against Palestinian olive growers, and during the incident, the photographer's equipment was also stolen. #Izraelis #VakarųKrantas #žurnalistika (translated)

Widtvoet wrote that Van Hattem had listed crimes recently committed by migrants. According to Widtvoet, D66 described that listing as carefully selected reports from local newspapers and stated that the PVV benefited when someone with a non-Dutch surname did something wrong. https://t.co/Rl5tQ7kAfr #migratie #criminaliteit #D66 (translated)

André Flach wondered whether Trouw had an editor and criticized the newspaper for allowing such columns, in his opinion. He objected to the use of the words "proportional" and "resistance fighters" and stated that he regarded Hamas as terrorists, whom he condemned in very harsh terms. https://t.co/Dy1vBUdy6W #vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #media #terrorisme (translated)

Roelof Bouwman wrote that similar reports appeared in the newspaper in the seventies, at that time about Mozambique or Ethiopia. According to him, Minister Jan Pronk of Development Cooperation then announced emergency aid immediately. https://t.co/9vmwMwW4Tq #ontwikkelingssamenwerking #noodhulp #geschiedenis (translated)

Chris Janssens stated that a member of the Weyts cabinet sent a fake opinion piece to newspaper editors during the budget preparation. According to Janssens, the piece tried to exonerate Muslims from homophobia and shift the responsibility to the right-wing in Flanders. He wrote that N-VA staff were just as lost as the party leadership, in his view. https://t.co/lpQTeNcuhh #België #politiek #media (translated)

The so-called right-wing newspaper @telegraaf has once again said nothing about my latest prosecution for a joke. From the last time I was taken out of bed to today, nothing. They do have room for important news. https://t.co/i7nxJW3yvO #vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #journalistiek #politiekevervolging (translated)