{"id":629206,"date":"2026-09-27T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629206\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:42:08","slug":"dutch-airport-searches-israeli-passengers-over-west-bank-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629206\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch airport searches Israeli passengers over West Bank goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands has begun enforcing its strict crackdown on the import of goods from Israeli settlements<\/a>, with passengers reporting thorough bag checks at Schiphol Airport.<\/p>\n

As of September 22, 2026, the Netherlands<\/a> officially enacted the sanction decision on settlements in the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and east Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

The ban extends to all imported goods, including travelers’ personal luggage and souvenirs. Those found to have adjusted origin labels will also be penalized.<\/p>\n

The prohibition additionally applies to goods that are only partially made or produced in the settlements (i.e. if one ingredient is from the area, even if the product was predominantly made in, say, Tel Aviv).<\/p>\n

The date of purchase of the product has no bearing on the penalty, meaning the law is effectively backdated to all purchases prior to its implementation.<\/p>\n

Under the new law, intentional violation or circumvention of the rules is punishable by up to six years’ imprisonment or a significant fine.<\/p>\n

Unintentional violations can carry a prison sentence of up to one year.<\/p>\n

According to conservative news site Nieuwsrecht, the day after the ban came into effect, travelers arriving at Schiphol from Tel Aviv walked past customs through the \u201cNothing to declare\u201d lane when a customs officer asked: \u201cAre you coming from Tel Aviv? Yes? Everyone from Israel, come over here!\u201d<\/p>\n

Nieuwsrecht said all El Al<\/a> passengers were made to put their luggage through a screening machine.<\/p>\n

The news site later learned that a unit of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee has been assigned to carry out additional checks on passengers arriving on flights from Israel at the national airport to determine whether they are carrying wine, dates, olives, or other products brought from East Jerusalem, the West Bank<\/a>, and the Golan.<\/p>\n

Posters listing prohibited items have now also been distributed.<\/p>\n

Nieuwsrecht called it a “witch hunt.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Customs in the Netherlands did not respond to The Jerusalem Post’s request for comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands has begun enforcing its strict crackdown on the import of goods from Israeli settlements, with passengers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69860,42,46,15442,3794,12512,43,5091,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-629206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-golan-heights","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israeli-tourist","tag-jerusalem","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-settlements","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}