May 18, 2025 - Over a 100.000 people marched in The Hague, making it the largest demonstration in the Netherlands in 20 years, to condemn the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and the complicity in this genocide of the Dutch government, universities, businesses and other institutions.
Most protesters came to the protest dressed in red, saying "Israel has to be stopped now, we are drawing the red line!", because even open ethnic cleansing, bombing of hospitals and ambulances, deliberate starving of children, constant war crimes and open genocide in general apparently aren't a red line for Israel to cross in the eyes of the Dutch government. [video]/[video]
Wish I could use Dutch here more often. 'Act normal' does NOT have the same energy as 'doe normaal' and there's not a single translation that does have the right energy. But often I do think Doe Normaal Gast when I'm scrolling Tumblr.
For the rest of the world who is wondering why the Dutchies on their dash are celebrating:
in 2023 we had elections and our alt-right, nazi-loving, fascist party won, seemingly out of nowhere
Think 2016 Trump levels of bad
For almost a year, our government has been "functioning" like a kindergarten. Petty fights, doing politics over twitter instead of in-person, ministers who don't even know what their job is, etc.
Today, that horribly racist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic party went to a meeting and in less than 10 minutes, stated they are leaving the coalition, which has caused our most right-wing cabinet in my lifetime to fall
We're celebrating a chance for our country to turn left again. And we're celebrating the end of one of the worst cabinets in recent history
