An Amsterdam district court has confirmed a six week prison sentence imposed by a lower court on Joop Glimmerveen, former chairman of the outlawed extreme rightwing Nederlandse Volksunie (NVU), for anti-Semitic and other racial remarks he made in an interview with a Dutch weekly in 1981.
Glimmerveen was quoted as saying that Surinamese in Holland must go back to Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America, and all Jews must go to Israel. He also insisted that Amsterdam should never have a Jewish mayor.
The incumbent Mayor of Amsterdam, serving his third six year term, is of Jewish origin. Jews comprise considerably less than one percent of Amsterdam’s population.
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