Anti-Israel NGO targets MKs over ‘incitement to genocide’

The Hind Rajab Foundation urged Dutch police to investigate and potentially detain the Israeli lawmakers.

By World Israel News Staff

An anti-Israel organization has filed criminal complaints in the Netherlands against two Israeli lawmakers, seeking their arrest should they enter the country to attend an international parliamentary conference.

The complaints were submitted by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Belgium-based organization that has pursued legal action against Israeli officials and Israel Defense Forces personnel traveling abroad.

The group’s founder is a former Hezbollah activist.

The latest complaints target Yesh Atid MK Ram Ben Barak and Religious Zionism MK Moshe Solomon, both of whom are expected to travel to the Netherlands to participate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in The Hague.

In a statement announcing the filing, the Hind Rajab Foundation urged Dutch police “to take immediate action to hold these two individuals accountable and to investigate their criminal responsibility for incitement to genocide.”

According to the complaint, Ben Barak and Solomon have “used their positions” to “advocate for policies aimed at the physical destruction and permanent displacement of the Palestinian population in Gaza.”

The filing alleges that Ben Barak promoted policies that would “promote the dissolution of the Palestinian national group in Gaza, preventing its reconstitution and continuity.”

As evidence, the foundation cited remarks Ben Barak made in November 2023 regarding the possibility of third countries accepting civilians from Gaza during the war.

“It is better to be a refugee in Canada than in Gaza,” Ben Barak said at the time, suggesting that countries around the world could each accept approximately 20,000 refugees as part of an international humanitarian effort.

The foundation also alleged that Solomon was “implicated for championing the re-establishment of illegal settlements in Gaza.” However, the complaint did not cite specific public statements by Solomon in support of that allegation.