Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
12036812_152411505101986_2474261435494325484_n
Tunahan Kuzu (Photo: Tunahan Kuzu/Facebook) - Credit: Tunahan Kuzu (Photo: Tunahan Kuzu/Facebook)
Politics
Benjamin Nethanyahu
Denk
Gaza
Groenlinks
handshake
Israel
Palestine
parliamentarian
refused handshake
Rik Grashoff
The Hague
Tunahan Kuzu
Wednesday, 7 September 2016 - 12:45
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Dutch politician refuses to shake Israeli PM's hand

DENK parliamentarian Tunahan Kuzu refused to shake the outstretched hand of visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. The former PvdA politician disagrees with the Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the region, NU.nl reports. Netanyahu visited parliament in The Hague on Wednesday. He offered his hand to Kuzu, who refused to take it. The Israeli Prime Minister then turned his back on the parliamentarian. According to the news site, Kuzu - wearing a button bearing the Palestinian flag - refused to give even the simple gesture of politeness because of Netanyahu's policies towards the Palestinians and Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. "Conversation with the Foreign Affairs Committee with Netanyahu over", Kuzu writes on Facebook. "While the streets of Gaza was reddened by blood that splashed out of the veins of children in the summer of 2014, the red carpet is rolled here. That deserves no handshake, but a reference to #FreePalestine" GroenLinks parliamentarian Rik Grashoff did not even attend the meeting with Netanyahu because Israel refuses to change the "disastrous policies on Palestinians", the MP said, according to NU. "More pressure on Israel and sanctions are needed."

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Life sentenced prisoners will get additional year for reintegration
  • GroenLinks members trim list for Senate election after congress
  • Possible passenger ceiling at Schiphol again due to staff shortage, travel agency angry
  • PvdA and GroenLinks in Brabant: only together in provincial government
  • Human trafficking near asylum seekers’ center in Gilze systematically not picked up
  • 20-year-old driver from Utrecht dies in car accident on A6

Top stories

  • Possible passenger ceiling at Schiphol again due to staff shortage, travel agency angry
  • Hoekstra wants to reintroduce conscription
  • EU countries agree on new price cap for Russian oil
  • Hermitage shows Rembrandt and contemporaries from The Leiden Collection
  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized
  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content