AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protests by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the ...

Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA) AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a ...

The Dutch-Moroccan novelist, Abdelkader Benali, took part at the "Astonishing Travelers" Festival, held in Saint-Malo (North-west France), from May 5 to 8, together with 36 other authors. Durin the ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements ...

In the BBC series Reading Europe, Moroccan Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali reflects on the healing power of bookshops - especially for those fleeing their home countries.

The so called ‘Moroccan issue’ featured heavily in the Dutch election campaign. Although populist leader Geert Wilders was beaten into second place, the rhetoric he used in the campaign clearly struck ...