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Esther Hilah Voet (
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, 1963) is a Dutch journalist, lobbyist and editor. She worked as a reporter for the right-wing newspaper ''
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'', the gossip magazine ''
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'', and the media company
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. In 2009 she became the editor in chief for the Jewish weekly ''
Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad The ''Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad'' (Dutch: New Israelite Weekly), in short NIW, is the only Jewish weekly and the oldest functioning news magazine in the Netherlands. Founded on August 4, 1865, it has since informed the Jewish community on issu ...
'' where she worked until 2011. From 2009 to 2015 she was director of the , a lobby organization which aims to secure the prosperity and image of the state Israel anywhere in the world.


Biography

Voet had a troubled childhood; a difficult relationship with her father forced her to become independent at age sixteen, as she explained in an interview with ''
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'' in 2014. She started her career in journalism working for Henk van der Meijden, editor of the gossip section of ''
De Telegraaf ''De Telegraaf'' (; ) is the largest Netherlands, Dutch daily morning newspaper. Haro Kraak,Gaat Paul Jansen de crisis bij De Telegraaf oplossen?, ''de Volkskrant'', 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015. Paul Jansen has been the editor-in-chief since ...
''. By the end of the 1980s she was a reporter for ''
Story Story or stories may refer to: Common uses * Narrative, an account of imaginary or real people and events ** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting ** News story, an event or topic reported by a news orga ...
'', a weekly tabloid dedicated to celebrity news and gossip. She left because she was tired of the superficial nature of her work, and afterward apologized to people she felt she had hurt in her articles. She spent two years, from 2009 to 2011, working for the Jewish weekly ''
Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad The ''Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad'' (Dutch: New Israelite Weekly), in short NIW, is the only Jewish weekly and the oldest functioning news magazine in the Netherlands. Founded on August 4, 1865, it has since informed the Jewish community on issu ...
'', and then became director of the Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël, or CIDI, a position that requires her to comment publicly on such matters as Holocaust education, Nazi literature (the ongoing debate over the accessibility of ''
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''), and antisemitism. She caused some uproar in the Dutch Jewish community when she disinvited
Geert Wilders Geert Wilders (born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who has led the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) since he founded it in 2006. He is also the party's leader in the House of Representatives. Wilders is best known for his right-wing p ...
from signing a petition condemning antisemitism. During a speech to the
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she warned about the growing antisemitism she saw among the Dutch.


See also

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History of the Jews in the Netherlands The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch cities, because the Netherlands was an unusual ...


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