Dutch Senate Calls To Affirm Jewish Ties To Temple Mount

The Dutch Senate on Tuesday passed a motion calling for the Netherlands to vote against UN resolutions that use only the Arabic name for the Temple Mount, thus denying Judaism’s connection to its holiest site.

The motion, by Sen. Peter Schalk of the Christian SGP faction, asked the government “to vote as much as possible against UN resolutions referring to the Temple Mount using only the Arabic name ‘al-Haram al-Sharif’ and to encourage other European Union countries to do the same.”

The Senate approved the motion with 50 in favor and 25 opposed. The vote came after the Netherlands voted in favor of six out of seven annual UN resolutions concerning Israel last week, including “Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem,” which refers to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, only as al-Haram al-Sharif. -Full Report