Esther Voet

Esther Hilah Voet By the end of the 1980s she was a reporter for Story, 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, 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 Mein Kampf), and antisemitism. She caused some uproar in the Dutch Jewish community when she disinvited Geert Wilders from signing a petition condemning antisemitism. During a speech to the Knesset she warned about the growing antisemitism she saw among the Dutch.