Hilversum alderman resigns after anti-Semitism accusation in email about Israel-Hamas conflict

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Hilversum alderman resigns after anti-Semitism accusation in email about Israel-Hamas conflict

Hilversum alderman Bart Heller (GroenLinks) resigned this morning after an accusation of anti-Semitism. Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs believes that Heller made anti-Semitic statements in an email he sent last week to a Hilversum family, who asked the municipality on behalf of the Israeli embassy to show sympathy for two Jewish victims of Hamas. In a response, Heller pointed to the suffering that is also inflicted on children in Gaza. Heller …