Andrew Sullivan recounts this story succinctly imo:
EURO-ANTI-SEMITISM WATCH: Regular readers will remember Gretta Duisenberg, the anti-Semitic wife of the European Central Bank chairman, Wim. When asked how many signatures she would like on an anti-Israel petition, she once joked, "Six million?" and laughed. Now she's getting more explicit. "Taking the Holocaust out of consideration, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is worse than the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands," she opined this week. "The cruelty of the Israeli knows no bounds. That they, for instance, blow up Palestinian houses is not exceptional. The Nazis never did that during the occupation of the Netherlands." For the record, 250,000 people were killed by the Nazis in Holland from 1940 - 45, 110,000 of whom were Jewish. Maybe she doesn't count those. Her husband is not to be held responsible for her bigotry, but it's surely getting a little difficult for one of the most powerful men in Europe to support his wife 100 percent, when she is clearly a Jew-hater.
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