The Kristallnacht remembrance service in Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue has stirred controversy after the keynote speaker condemned the Red Line protests and said labelling the Gaza war a genocide was rooted in anti-Semitism. In an unusually political speech, Chanan Hertzberger, chair of Jewish umbrella organisation CJO, denounced the “genocide lie” in front of a congregation containing senior cabinet members including the prime minister Rob Jetten, who also spoke.