Ronny Naftaniel directed the Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) in the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013. Through October 2023 the opening said under Naftaniel, CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism on Israel. Today's opening states only his name, birth date, and tenure as CIDI's director, with that sentence gone, though antisemitism survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that CIDI's mission under Naftaniel included monitoring antisemitism in the Netherlands.
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Ronny) Naftaniel (born October 10, 1948 in Amsterdam ) is the director of the Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël (Center for Information and Documentation Israel) (CIDI), in The Hague , The Netherlands .1Ronny Naftaniel is the son of a German Jew who had survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands after already having fled Nazi Germany in the aftermath of the Kristallnacht in 1938. Naftaniel's father was immediately interned in Westerbork - in 1938 a refugee camp where Jews from Germany who had fled Nazi Germany were brought to - after crossing the border with the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he succeeded in preventing his own deportation to the death camps in occupied Poland . He was liberated by Canadian forces in 1945 while still being held in Westerbork, which had been transformed into a transit camp for more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz , Sobibor , Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt by the Nazis. Ronny Naftaniel grew up in a liberal Jewish family, which didn't have much to do with the religious side of Judaism. During the roary 1960s, Naftaniel developed a particular interest in politics, especially in the left-wing Pacifist Socialist Party . During the 1970s, Naftaniel started to change under the influence of the 1973 oil crisis and increasing criticism on Israel and its actions within Dutch society . Becoming more and more aware of his Jewish identity, Naftaniel joined CIDI, the Center for Information and Documentation Israel in 1976. CIDI was found in 1974 by Bob Levisson (just like Ronny Naftaniel's father also a survivor of Westerbork) with the goal of promoting a positive view on Israel and counter increasing criticism on Israel within Dutch society. Naftaniel became director of CIDI in 1980, succeeding Levisson. Since then he has become a well-known figure, both within as well as outside the Dutch Jewish community. Eventually, during his 26 years as director, he became the face of CIDI. Praised by some, he is cursed by others. Under Naftaniel, CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism on Israel. Naftaniel is a member of the Dutch Labour Party . He is also a Board Member of the Brussels based organization CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe .2
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Ronald Maurice (Ronny) Naftaniel ( Amsterdam , October 10, 1948) is the director of the Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël (Center for Information and Documentation Israel) (CIDI), a pro-zionist lobby group , in The Hague , The Netherlands . Ronny Naftaniel is the son of a German Jew who had survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands after already having fled Nazi Germany in the aftermath of the Kristallnacht in 1938. Naftaniel's father was immediately interned in Westerbork - in 1938 a refugee camp where Jews from Germany who had fled Nazi Germany were brought to - after crossing the border with the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he succeeded in preventing his own deportation to the death camps in Poland . He was liberated by Canadian forces in 1945 while still being held in Westerbork, which had been transformed into a transit camp for more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz , Sobibor , Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt by the Nazis. Ronny Naftaniel grew up in a liberal Jewish family, which didn't have much to do with the religious side of Judaism. During the roary 1960s, Naftaniel developed a particular interest in politics, especially in the left-wing Pacifist Socialist Party . During the 1970s, Naftaniel started to change under the influence of the 1973 oil crisis and increasing criticism on Israel and its actions within Dutch society . Becoming more and more aware of his Jewish identity, Naftaniel joined CIDI, the Center for Information and Documentation Israel in 1976. CIDI was found in 1974 by Bob Levisson (just like Ronny Naftaniel's father also a survivor of Westerbork) with the goal of promoting a positive view on Israel and counter increasing criticism on Israel within Dutch society. Naftaniel became director of CIDI in 1980, succeeding Levisson. Since then he has become a well-known figure, both within as well as outside the Dutch Jewish community. Eventually, during his 26 years as director, he became the face of CIDI. Praised by some, he is cursed by others. Until the founding of Een Ander Joods Geluid ("A Different Jewish Voice") by members of the Dutch Jewish community who are critical of Israel, Naftaniel and "his" CIDI were seen by many outsiders as the voice of the Jewish community in the Netherlands. Under Naftaniel, CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism on Israel. Naftaniel is a member of the Dutch Labour Party .
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Ronald Maurice (Ronny) Naftaniel (born October 10, 1948 in Amsterdam ) is the director of the Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël (Center for Information and Documentation Israel) (CIDI), in The Hague , The Netherlands . Ronny Naftaniel is the son of a German Jew who had survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands after already having fled Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938. Naftaniel's father was immediately interned in Westerbork - in 1938 a refugee camp where Jews from Germany who had fled Nazi Germany were brought to - after crossing the border with the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands , he succeeded in preventing his own deportation to the death camps in occupied Poland . He was liberated by Canadian forces in 1945 while still being held in Westerbork, which had been transformed into a transit camp for more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz , Sobibor , Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt by the Nazis. Ronny Naftaniel grew up in a liberal Jewish family that had little to do with the religious side of Judaism. In the roary 1960s, Naftaniel developed a particular interest in politics, especially in the left-wing Pacifist Socialist Party . In the 1970s, Naftaniel started to change under the influence of the 1973 oil crisis and increasing criticism on Israel and its actions within Dutch society. Becoming more and more aware of his Jewish identity, Naftaniel joined CIDI, the Center for Information and Documentation Israel in 1976. CIDI was found in 1974 by Bob Levisson (just like Ronny Naftaniel's father also a survivor of Westerbork) with the goal of promoting a positive view on Israel and counter increasing criticism of Israel within Dutch society. Naftaniel became director of CIDI in 1980, succeeding Levisson. Since then he has become a well-known figure, both within as well as outside the Dutch Jewish community. Eventually, during his 26 years as director, he became the face of CIDI. Praised by some, he is cursed by others. Under Naftaniel, CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism of Israel. Naftaniel is a member of the Dutch Labour Party . He is also a Board Member of the Brussels-based organization CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Ronald Maurice (Ronny) Naftaniel (born October 10, 1948 in Amsterdam ) is the director of the Center for Information and Documentation Israel [ nl ] (Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël) (CIDI), in The Hague , The Netherlands . Ronny Naftaniel is the son of a German Jew who had survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands after already having fled Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938. Naftaniel's father was immediately interned in Westerbork - in 1938 a refugee camp where Jews from Germany who had fled Nazi Germany were brought to - after crossing the border with the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands , he succeeded in preventing his own deportation to the death camps in occupied Poland . He was liberated by Canadian forces in 1945 while still being held in Westerbork, which had been transformed into a transit camp for more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz , Sobibor , Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt by the Nazis. Ronny Naftaniel grew up in a liberal Jewish family that had little to do with the religious side of Judaism. In the roary 1960s, Naftaniel developed a particular interest in politics, especially in the left-wing Pacifist Socialist Party . In the 1970s, Naftaniel started to change under the influence of the 1973 oil crisis and increasing criticism on Israel and its actions within Dutch society. Becoming more and more aware of his Jewish identity, Naftaniel joined CIDI, the Center for Information and Documentation Israel in 1976. CIDI was found in 1974 by Bob Levisson (just like Ronny Naftaniel's father also a survivor of Westerbork) with the goal of promoting a positive view on Israel and counter increasing criticism of Israel within Dutch society. Naftaniel became director of CIDI in 1980, succeeding Levisson. Since then he has become a well-known figure, both within as well as outside the Dutch Jewish community. Eventually, during his 26 years as director, he became the face of CIDI. Praised by some, he is cursed by others. Under Naftaniel, CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism of Israel. Naftaniel is a member of the Dutch Labour Party . He is also a Board Member of the Brussels-based organization CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe.
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Dutch activist (born 1948) Naftaniel in 1982 Ronald Maurice (Ronny) Naftaniel (born October 10, 1948 in Amsterdam ) is the former director of the Center for Information and Documentation Israel [ nl ] (Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël) (CIDI), in The Hague , The Netherlands , having served in this role from 1980 to 2013.
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