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A Muslim city councilman in The Hague called a visiting delegation of Israeli high school students “future Zionist terrorists, occupiers and those who murder children.”

Abdoe Khoulani tore into the 28-member group of 16-year-olds during their visit to the Dutch Parliament, according to a report by Yediot Ahronot.

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The students were from the Hen School for Young Ambassadors and were present in the country as guests of Kees van der Staaij, a Dutch lawmaker from the SGP Party.

Needless to say, Israeli Ambassador to Netherlands, Aviv Shir-On, fired off a letter of protest to Pauline Krikke, Mayor of The Hague, in response to the vicious attack.

“The 16-year-old Israelis came to Holland in order to promote friendly relations between the countries, to meet with Dutch youth and conduct dialogue and form friendly relations,” Shir-On wrote.

“To call them murderers and claim they have Palestinian blood on their hands just because they are Israeli is not just a scandal, it is absolutely unacceptable. These words are nothing but anti-Israel incitement that can lead to violence that we have unfortunately seen in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Manchester and London.”

The CIDI Dutch anti-Semitism monitoring NGO is looking into the feasibility of filing a legal complaint against the city councilman in response to his attack.

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.