JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Gideon (Gidi) Markuszower, a Tel Aviv-born Dutch politician, is set to become the Netherlands’ new Migration and Asylum Minister following recent coalition negotiations in the Hague, and may even become Deputy Prime Minister according to Dutch media.
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Markuszower was born in Tel Aviv but grew up in Amsterdam, attending the Rosj Pina and Maimonides schools in Amsterdam, which serve as the Amsterdam Jewish community’s main schools. He is a descendant of a prominent Jewish family that held many administrative positions within the Jewish Netherlands. For example, his father was chairman of Jewish Special Education for many years and his brother was chairman of the Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad.
Following high school, he studied international relations at the Hebrew University and spent two years at a Yeshiva before returning to the Netherlands to study Law at the University of Amsterdam, according to his biography page on the Dutch Parliament’s website.
Markuszower devoted himself to the Jewish community in the Netherlands for many years. For example, he was administratively involved in the NIHS, Bij Leven en Welzijn, member of the Centraal Joods Overleg, spokesperson for Likud Nederland, director of Jewish youth, such as Bne Akiva and student associations, and treasurer of the Dutch Israelite Denomination.
Markuszower is part of the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders.
Markuszowers’s hardline against immigration made him a close and important ally of Wilders; during a 2021 debate, he called the current Dutch migration policies “a crime against the Dutch nation.”
This stance is speculated to be the reason for his appointment, and Dutch media also believe that he will be appointed as one of four Deputy Prime Ministers for this government.
Wilders recently led the PVV to its best performance since its founding in 2006, despite his hardline anti-migrant views. The party gained 20 seats, giving them 37 and making them the main vector for government formation; Markuszower has been a close ally of Wilders for at least a decade since his entry into the Dutch States-General in 2015.
Markuszower, like his ally Wilders, is considered somewhat controversial in the Netherlands due to multiple incidents.
He was arrested in 2010 during celebrations of Israel’s 60th Anniversary for carrying a firearm; Markuszower had a license for the firearm but not a permit to transport it, according to Trouw.
He was forced to withdraw his candidacy for the States-General when the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) announced they believed he had leaked information to a foreign intelligence service while working as a political advisor to a Dutch politician. Dutch media speculated that the foreign intelligence service was Mossad, although the AIVD never confirmed. Markuszower strenuously denies these allegations.
Despite this allegation, Markuszower has not shied away from supporting Israel, in particular in the aftermath of October 7.
The new government is expected to be strongly pro-Israel, not just because of Markuszower, but also due to Wilders and rumored Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans, according to Dutch media.
B’H. Hopefully, the elections in Germany & France will also lead to Europeans desperate attempts to reverse their lovefest with Moslems. (Although, I wouldn’t really mind if they fail & are already dead men walking!)
His nomination was withdrawn.
You see? The Jews really do control the world