Yossi ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 28.09.2026
Already in 1919, at the Paris Conference, the Zionist delegation presented the demand for a greater Land of Israel from the Euphrates River to the Nile. This area includes all of Palestine, and hence the settlements in the West Bank, which are prohibited by international law. In the Netherlands, a law was recently enacted prohibiting the entry of products from the settlements into the country, including in suitcases, which provoked a grotesque response from the Zionists and their supporters, the day after the new ban went into effect.
According to the Zionist website, after the El Al flight from Tel Aviv landed in Schiphol and the passengers collected their luggage, they began to advance toward the “Nothing to declare” route. Then, it was claimed, a customs official approached them and asked: “Are you coming from Tel Aviv?” The website claimed that the luggage of all the passengers on the flight was checked.
Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and a member of the Knesset, linked the current events to Holland’s past during World War II and called on Israel to take a strong diplomatic step. “The Netherlands, the most pro-Nazi Western European country during the German occupation during World War II, has completely returned to its anti-Semitic roots and is selecting Jews,” he wrote. Israel must immediately expel the Dutch ambassador.”
David Wurmser, a researcher at the Center for Security Policy and a former senior adviser to the US National Security Council, used a sharp historical comparison. He said that the very fact of separating Jews from queues and conducting a unique test for them “brings back dark memories of Europe.” Wormser also mentioned Anne Frank, and claimed that in the present case, he said, this is not an artificial political comparison, but rather a “chilling” event in which the Dutch authorities mark Jews for restrictive examination and exposure to possible criminal proceedings.
The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, a far-right movement, Geert Wilders, joined the attack. He wrote: “Well done Gideon Saar. Unfortunately, the Netherlands is now controlled by Israel-haters and Hamas lovers, so your actions are completely justified.”
Uri Rosenthal, a Dutch Zionist politician from the VVD party who previously served as foreign minister, described the conduct as “grotesque anti-Israel hysteria” and also referred to the report on the Schiphol tests as a “witch hunt.” He mocked the way in which he claimed, customs officials might inspect the products of passengers arriving from Tel Aviv: “Where does this box of dates come from? And what about the Bible?”
Rosenthal asked why travelers of Moroccan origin do not undergo similar tests for products originating in Western Sahara.
The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, also joined in the criticism. “There were some people from the Netherlands at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher this morning, who are going to return tomorrow by flight and need to check their souvenirs to make sure they are not from Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee wrote. “A souvenir kit from Bethlehem could land you in jail. Possibility of six years in prison Crazy.”
The very comparison of the prohibition on the entry of goods created in the settlements to Nazi Germany is no doubt a subconscious self-reflection, it is no coincidence that a senior Nazi journalist Von Mildenstein was invited to visit Israel. He was a reporter for the main Nazi newspaper and wrote 12 articles praising the Zionist colonization of Palestine
The Zionist Hebrew website Hamichlol writes about this visit that cannot be hidden anymore:
“Von Mildenstein was born in 1902 in Peerage, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as a member of a family belonging to the lowest strata of the Austrian aristocracy. He was trained as an engineer. In 1929 he joined the Nazi Party and in 1932 he joined the SS, being one of the first Austrians to do so.
He showed an interest in Zionism and even went so far as to participate in the Zionist conferences in order to deepen his understanding of the movement. He saw the Zionist idea as a solution to the Jewish problem and the transformation of Germany into what the Nazis called “Judenrein.” The Zionist movement had gained great popularity among German Jews since Hitler came to power and tended to cooperate to implement this solution. On April 7, 1933, a few days after the Nazis came to power, the Juedische Rundschau, the organ of the Zionist Federation of Germany, declared that of all parts of the Jewish population, only the Zionist Federation of Germany was able to contact the Nazis in good faith as “sincere partners.” The federation tasked one of its activists, Kurt Tuchler, with contacting possible supporters of Zionism within the Nazi Party, in order to facilitate the immigration of German Jews to Palestine. Tuchler turned to von Mildenstein and asked him to write something positive in the Nazi press about the settlement of the Jews in the Land of Israel. Von Mildenstein agreed to this journalistic mission, on the condition that he would be allowed to visit the Mandatory Land of Israel, with Tuchler as an escort. In the spring of 1933, a group of two couples, Tuchler with his wife Gerda, and von Mildenstein with his wife, left Berlin for Palestine. In a report that Tuchler later submitted to the Yad Vashem Archives, he wrote: “Our goal was to create an atmosphere in an important Nazi newspaper that would promote the construction project in the Land of Israel.” According to him, authoritative sources in the Zionist movement approved of his initiative. Mildenstein and Tuchler spent a month together in Israel. Mildenstein himself stayed in the country for six months, toured the length and breadth of the country, met with many Jews and Arabs, stayed in several kibbutzim and was deeply impressed. He returned to Germany as an enthusiastic supporter of Zionism and even began to learn Hebrew. Von Mildenstein maintained his ties with the Tuchler family even after they immigrated to Palestine, and every year he would send them Jewish New Year greetings in Hebrew.
After the visit on his return to Germany, Mildenstein brought with him some records from the country’s singers. During one of Kurt Tuchler’s visits to the Gestapo headquarters, he heard “Song of the Valley” playing. Mildenstein also gave Tuchler, during this period, useful information.
Mildenstein kept his promise to Tuchler, and after his return to Germany, in 1934 he published a series of twelve photographic articles about his tour of Israel in the Nazi newspaper Der Engrave (German: “The Attack”), in the town of Joseph Goebbels, with the headline “A Nazi Goes to Palestine.” On the front page of the newspaper appeared a map of the Land of Israel, followed by articles in which Mildenstein expressed sympathy for the Jewish pioneers and settlers and their achievements, which, according to him, created a new type of Jew. He described Jews ploughing the land, draining swamps, and realizing the Zionist idea, and praised Zionism as bringing great benefit to Jews and the world, because a Jewish homeland in Palestine, he said, is a possible way to heal the wound that has existed for generations on the peoples: the Jewish problem’.[i]
Nazi Germany produced a medal for this visit[ii]
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.hamichlol.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F
[ii] https://melikiancollection.com/artwork/nazi-zionist-cooperation-medal-4880/