Geert Wilders | The Broomstick Brief

The pipeline from Jerusalem to The Hague

How a piece of paper can become a parliamentary scandal? Step one: NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem based research institute, publishes a report. The report alleges that Hamas has infiltrated Dutch aid organisations operating in Gaza. The evidence is thin. One example involves a wastewater treatment project that also irrigated…

A wide-angle illustration of a traditional set of justice scales, cracked and tilting, set in front of a Dutch government building in The Hague under a stormy sky. Tulips are wilting and a torn Dutch flag flaps in the wind.

How democracy, populism, and bureaucracy are unravelling the Dutch legal tradition

In De onvoltooide rechtsstaat (The Unfinished Rule of Law), published on 4 June 2025 to mark his retirement from the Dutch Supreme Court, Ybo Buruma offers a sweeping yet pointed dissection of the Netherlands’ legal journey, and its current disintegration. Part historical reflection, part polemic, the book contends tha…