The Netherlands Palestine Committee has announced that it will continue to supply the pro-Palestinian film “Kafr Kassem” to any group requesting it, notwithstanding protests from local Jewish organizations and congregations. The film was screened for the Amsterdam press recently and has, in fact, been shown in Holland for the past 18 months.
The Palestine Committee expressed surprise that the Jewish groups are only now protesting and attributed it to the forthcoming celebrations of Israel’s 30th anniversary. The Joint Committee of Jewish Congregations has circulated a letter to high school principals throughout Holland urging them not to show the film to their students on grounds that it foments hatred and offers no solution to the Middle East problem.
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