During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands the town of Westerbork became the home to a concentration camp. It was just a transit camp though, and the Jews who were imprisoned here were soon sent on their way to be murdered in Auschwitz and other German camps. To commemorate the evil that took place here, a committee has been organizing annual silent processions at Westerbork. This year though, a Dutch Jewish organization is protesting against the choice of speaker to address the crowd. Somehow the head of a Dutch "peace" movement, the IKV, got the job. This is someone who during the cold war invariably chose Moscow's side, wallowing in a deep mire of moral equivalence. He and his organization were the Evil Empire's useful idiots who protested against the US for keeping the Netherlands free and prosperous. Of course, he's learnt nothing from the cold war, and he and his ilk are not content with having been on the wrong side of history once in a lifetime, but they're going for two. Thus the usual anti-American protests, which you would expect from a "peace" movement. But part and parcel of that is also an anti-Israeli attitude, which is manifested by the IKV steadfastly taking the side of the Palestinians terrorists who are trying to destroy the state of Israel. In his wisdom the IKV's leader said that Israel should distance itself from its Jewish character. The insanity of multiculturalism from the mouth of an idiot. His long track record of pacifist depravity should have disqualified him from being taken seriously in the first place. Anti-semitic? I won't go that far yet.

This will be the 50th, but also be the last silent procession. The group who's been organizing these marches since 1992 can't find anybody to continue the tradition.