(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Michael Jacobs, 66, a resident of Amsterdam, has been going out five times a week over the past two years to defend Israel at BDS demonstrations. "I stand in front of the anti-Israel demonstrators with the Israeli flag to show them that we will not give up and will not surrender to their lies and pressure to give up our land," Jacobs declares. "I'm on duty, and I feel like a soldier defending the human morality that is missing in the Netherlands and defending the State of Israel....I am ready to fight because my grandparents were murdered for being Jewish." "In the Netherlands, it is commonplace that they refuse to see the Jewish people as a nation. They think we stole the land from the Arabs. People really believe it because they have been saying it on the daily news for 30 years now. They are brainwashing the Dutch people. I see myself as a regular Jew doing tikkun olam (bettering the world). I am proud to be a Jew, I am proud of the flag, I am proud of the Israeli and Jewish tradition....Israel is the land of the Jews and that is why I wave the Israeli flag."
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