A Dutch Jewish group threw its support behind an insurance firm in the Netherlands, saying recent calls by the World Jewish Congress for a boycott against the firm are unfair. “There is no reason for a boycott. Aegon has been fully cooperative,” Joop Sanders, secretary of the Central Jewish Board of the Netherlands, said Tuesday. The comment came after the Dutch Association of Insurers, to which Aegon belongs, announced it is providing some $21 million to cover unpaid insurance policies and help Holocaust survivors.
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