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A look at the NOS sarcastically wrote that the broadcast said nothing about glorifying terrorist organizations for the National Monument on the Dam. The account stated that NOS professionals decided for themselves what news was and that they considered Turks vacationing in Diyarbakir more important. https://t.co/BIaraQAbHM #Nieuws #NOS #Terrorisme (translated)

In a boating accident off the coast of Djibouti, at least 139 migrants, including fifteen children, have drowned, while more than a hundred others have been reported missing, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). #Migratie #Djibouti #Mensensmokkel (translated)

Restaurant 95 in Amsterdam has removed a mocktail named From the river to the sea from the menu after receiving dozens of death threats, during which the staff felt unsafe, and the organization is now in contact with the police and municipality for security measures. #Restaurant95 #Intimidatie #Palestina (translated)

A former woke teacher wrote that MP Nicole Moinat described, according to them, an established order that had lost its moral compass. The teacher stated that criminal organizations were recruiting very young people for explosions, drug trafficking, and assassinations because, according to them, juvenile offenders were hardly punished. In The Hague, according to the teacher, young criminals were primarily seen as victims of their circumstances. The teacher criticized explanations of crime based on disadvantage, personal problems, and a difficult childhood, because those explanations, according to them, obscured the responsibility of the offenders. The teacher also stated that the compassion for offenders was greater than the concern for victims. Young people deserved a second chance, according to them, but it should not outweigh the safety of society. The teacher wrote that the government, out of fear of appearing inhumane, no longer dared to set limits and that the consequences of this were borne by people who obeyed the law. #rechtstaat #criminaliteit #veiligheid (translated)

Weird Duk called the conversation about Hamas being a “democratic organization” the most idiotic, absurdist, and surrealistic thing he had ever heard. He stated that Jort had lost his mind, according to him, and asked NPO Radio 1 what this was. #Hamas #absurdistisch #democratie (translated)

The author named Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the IRGC, Samidoun, and other organizations that they claimed glorified deadly Islamic jihad terror. The author also stated that Belgium alone counted a hundred Salafist organizations. The author sarcastically noted that Israel was nonetheless designated as the instigator of polarization and wrote that readers of NRC no longer needed to read De Speld. #België #Jihad #Polarisatie #BE #IL (translated)

Geert Noels stated that the richest 20% of the Belgian population paid 65% of wage taxes, compared to 7% by the lower half. According to him, those taxes financed social benefits and transfers that went back to the lower incomes. He wrote that the tax burden on the highest incomes could not rise further and noted that they had little time and organization to take to the streets. #belasting #socialeongelijkheid #economischbeleid (translated)

The Minister of the Interior, Bernard Quintin, defends his stance on a new law against radical organizations, despite criticism from the Federal Institute for Human Rights, and states that a previous law could have prevented Sharia for Belgium from recruiting young people for jihad in Syria. #radicalisation #libertésfondamentales #sécurité (translated)

Julien De Wit wrote that a colleague had posted his testimony on LinkedIn and that he found it worth sharing. The self-employed individual mentioned that he had received chemotherapy with Taxotere and Cyclophosphamide three years earlier, followed by radiotherapy. A month after his last radiation treatment, he had returned to work, although his supervising doctor thought it was too soon according to him. He had quickly reduced his replacement income of about 40 euros per day. The colleague wrote that he worked as a self-employed individual without staff through a company and had no fixed salary, paid sick leave, or vacation pay. If he was sick or took a holiday, he earned nothing. With a full schedule ahead, he was afraid of getting sick this month, he wrote. He opposed what he considered to be negative perceptions of self-employed individuals with a management company and called for respect for the risks they themselves bore. https://t.co/JNrZ60Kq3n #zelfstandigen #ondernemen #respect (translated)

Three men have been arrested in Ghent who were presumably involved in the shooting in Overasselt earlier last month, and they are suspected of murder, manslaughter, possession of firearms, and membership in a criminal organization. #Gent #schietpartij #crimineleorganisatie (translated)

Marcel Crok suspected that Tijs was referring to him with the term 'climate deniers' because he claimed to be about the only dissenting voice during an external expert day in March 2025. He called the term derogatory and pointed out that CDA leader Henri Bontenbal had also used it regularly, according to him. Crok invited Tijs to a lecture by Clintel given by Roger Pielke Jr. the following Sunday in Driebergen. He referred to an article by Pielke about a campaign against climate scientists with dissenting views. According to Crok, Australian activists, including a cartoonist, with the support of influential American climate scientists, created blacklists. Among those listed were Pielke, his father, and Judith Curry, according to him. Crok wrote that their academic careers were thereby hindered and called the issue concerning for Members of Parliament. Regarding his own participation in the Citizen's Assembly, Crok stated that the selection of citizens went well and that his discussions with KNMI director Maarten van Aalst were respectful. However, in hindsight, he claimed that the organization published an incorrect fact-check. He said he should have filed a forty-page complaint before he received any response. Crok argued that the debate about climate, just like the debate about corona which Tijs had previously struggled with as a journalist, was, in his view, being stifled. He spoke of a suffocating atmosphere in the academic world and wrote that no journalist had signed up to attend Pielke's lecture. #klimaat #wetenschap #discussie (translated)

Ronny Naftaniel wrote that the umbrella organization of Jewish organizations CJO was rightly furious about the events of October 7. He referred to a statement in which CJO stated that Jews in the Netherlands should not have to hide behind fences to mourn their dead while support for those who had killed them was openly expressed on the street. The organization said it had had enough of intimidation, turning a blind eye, and statements of outrage that did not lead to action, and demanded measures. https://t.co/1LdM7cG45x #JoodseGemeenschap #Solidariteit #Intimidatie (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that the public broadcaster had mostly given a voice to people in recent weeks who were in favor of a larger government and against cuts. A cut of 1 percent in subsidies was proposed as a national disaster, among others in discussions with trade unions and Paul De Grauwe, whom Vande Reyde said had claimed that the government debt would vanish like snow in the sun. He also stated that the broadcaster was actively looking for protesting students to give legitimacy to the riots. Vande Reyde accused the VRT and other traditional media of ignoring issues that people were concerned about or portraying those with such concerns as foolish. According to him, subsidized activist organizations were given ample space, while guests advocating for a smaller government or who were critical of migration were invariably surrounded by additional commentary and counterarguments. Vande Reyde wondered whether this reporting explained the loss of trust in traditional media. He wrote that media subsequently labeled social media as suspicious and presented themselves as the only reliable source, while according to him they were pursuing more subsidies and advertising revenues. #MediaBias #Overheid #VRT (translated)

Sander Sassen addressed Henri Bontenbal and wrote that he had been little visible for months, despite an earlier column by Sassen about his absence. According to Sassen, Bontenbal had published a long thread on October 7, in which he labeled Hamas a terrorist organization and reflected on the victims and the Jewish community. Sassen felt that Bontenbal had subsequently blurred the responsibility for the violence by talking about a chain of violence, the Israeli response, and civilian casualties. He also believed that Bontenbal had pointed to Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policy as an obstacle to a two-state solution. Sassen argued that this approach equated Hamas's attack and kidnappings with Israel's response, thereby fueling antisemitism. Sassen also criticized Bontenbal's reference to an article in Trouw about Maoz Inon, who lost his parents to Hamas, and Aziz Abu Sarah, whose brother died in an Israeli prison. Sassen described their pursuit of reconciliation as hopeful but felt that Bontenbal presented this initiative as a serious way forward without giving sufficient attention to Hamas's persistence and objectives, according to him. He also stated that Hamas deliberately saddled Palestinian children with hatred for Jews. Sassen wrote that, in his opinion, Bontenbal offered false hope and insufficiently placed responsibility for Hamas's violence on the perpetrators. He claimed that Hamas and its supporters aimed for the destruction of Israel and stated that disarmament by Palestinians, in his view, would bring peace, while Israel's disarmament would lead to a new attack like the one on October 7. #Israël #Hamas #Antisemitisme (translated)

A Ecuadorian court has acquitted 32 sailors of involvement in a criminal organization, as no evidence was found for their participation in illegal activities, following the bombing by the US of their ships in the Pacific Ocean. #Ecuador #drugsbestrijding #mensenrechten (translated)