The leader of the left-wing alliance GroenLinks-PvdA, Frans Timmermans, has called on people not to stage protests relating to the conflict in Gaza during the national war commemorations on May 4. “On May 4 we remember the dead and we do it in silence,” Timmermans wrote in an essay for Vrij Nederland. “Save your protests for another time.” Timmermans’s concerns follow the disruption of the opening of the national Holocaust museum in Amsterdam last month, when protesters demonstrated against the Read this story
