Christmas wish youth club Forum arouses struggle by FvD-prominent Hiddema: ‘Nauseous’
This provoked a reaction from FvD Member of Parliament Theo Hiddema. Yule is an old Germanic festival in which the dead are commemorated and fertility is celebrated. However, it is also a festival celebrated by the Nazis during World War II. As in Camp Westerbork in 1942, Hiddema points out in a tweet in response to the JFVD message.
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JFVD wishes everyone a merry Christmas! Spend these dark days with who you love, your family, your lover of your friends. Celebrate life and reflect on the warmth and love of the people around you. ️ pic.twitter.com/gndCS69eMx
— JFVD (@youth_fvd) Dec 24, 2021
Hiddema writes: ‘You also all that is blessed! Where do you celebrate the Yule festival? The last approvals were held in camp Westerbork. Perhaps a location for JFVD to breathe new life into such a healthy folk tradition. Houzee!’
In one, Hiddema says: “If we were already celebrating this Joelfeest explanation in our country, then this might have been appropriate, but there are mortal people in the Netherlands who even know what this entails. That club only does this to pursue a certain association and I am sick of it. If you keep the Jewish suffering relative, then you will have the last with me.”
You too all that is blissful! Where do you celebrate the Yule festival? The last approvals were held in camp Westerbork. Perhaps a location for JFVD to breathe new life into such a healthy folk tradition. woozee!
— Theo Hiddema (@THiddema) Dec 24, 2021
Barely two weeks ago, party leader Thierry Baudet had to delete four tweets, in which he compared the corona policy with the Holocaust and the Second World War. The Israel Information and Documentation Center (CIDI), the Central Jewish Consultation Committee and four Jewish survivors of the Second World War had filed summary proceedings against him. The judge banned him from using the subject any longer in his protest against the corona policy. Baudet announced against the ‘certainly in appeal’ against the ‘certainly in appeal’.
Hiddema, however, does not have a good word for it. “I haven’t spoken to Thierry about those tweets or the matter, but he can’t count on one word of understanding from my side. To drag the Holocaust by the hair is sickening. Those associations are evidence of an empathic defect in abundance.”
Last year, JFVD was previously discredited when it came to anti-Semitic messages in WhatsApp groups. It then became clear to women, among other things, that ‘Jews have international pedo networks and help massively into pornography’. This was followed by revelations from party members that Baudet would have expressed himself anti-Semitic during a dinner.
A spokesperson for Forum for Democracy called it ‘fuss for nothing’: “Joel has nothing to do with the Second World War – it is Hiddema who makes the comparison with WWII. JFVD has nothing to do with that association. The party is well celebrated in the Netherlands, as almost everyone brings a Christmas tree into their home, lights candles and hangs up mistletoe at Christmas. The fact that an innocent Christmas picture is drawn in this atmosphere shows the obsession of the media with FVD. Have a nice Christmas and don’t look up where your Christmas tree comes from when you’re under it.”
Thierry Baudet and his confidants for Forum for Democracy seem to be further radicalizing. In mid-November Forum MP Pepijn van Houwelingen threatened his colleague Sjoerd Sjosma of D66 with: “Your will come, there will be tribunals.”