Poll: 50% of Dutch electorate say Gaza genocide to affect their vote in upcoming elections
Almost half of the people in the Netherlands say the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has been receiving unprecedentedly generous arms support from the West, will affect the way they will vote in the upcoming elections.
The percentage, reported across Dutch media outlets on Monday, came out of a poll, which had been commissioned by various human rights organizations and conducted by Motivaction International, a research body.
According to the results, as much as 42 percent of the respondents said Gaza “would influence” their choice of party “either slightly or a great deal” in next month’s early general elections.
Thirty-nine percent of the Dutch public said it would “make little or no difference,” the survey also showed.
However, more than half of the participants (54 percent) asserted that the regime was actually committing genocide in the coastal sliver – a viewpoint that would not attract as many supporters in previous polls.
“The Dutch population are seeing war crime after war crime in Gaza and want the government to draw a clear red line,” the Netherlands’ DutchNews website cited Roelien Sasse, executive director of PAX, which calls itself the largest peace organization in the country, as saying.
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In 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant.
The warrants emanated from the October 2023-present genocide that has so far claimed the lives of around 65,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars and a United Nations investigative committee have both endorsed the term.
DutchNews, however, cited Foreign Minister David van Weel as saying recently that the government would only do so once there was a judgment by the International Court of Justice, which will take years.
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