He Moved To Israel To Join The Army, Now Israeli-Dutch Jew Leads Dutch Party

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Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament

"He moved to Israel with plans to join the army."I wanted to become the prime minister of Israel,"

At 18, Itay Garmy made an unconventional choice for graduates of his large public high school in Amsterdam: He moved to Israel with plans to join the army. But he quickly became disillusioned by the country's polarized politics and headed home. "I spoke to people on the extreme left and the extreme right and realized peace was not feasible," ... Less than a decade later, Garmy has notched his first major political win in the Netherlands: A new progressive political party, Volt, wonthree seats in this week's national election. Garmy ran the campaign. Garmy will not represent the party in the parliament. He said he was drawn to Volt's vision because he is a Dutch Jew, an identity he embraced on the campaign trail even amid attacks from far-left anti-Israel activists. Those on the right called attention to the fact that the Open Society nonprofit started by George Soros, the liberal Jewish philanthropist who has supported pan-European causes, gave $25,000 to support the party's founding. Meanwhile, far-left activists picked up on Garmy's connection to Israel, accusing him of being a "Zionist activist" and an "Israeli stooge." He responded by emphasizing his identity... describing himself as "young, Jewish, Israeli, secular, politically engaged and Dutch."

Garmy, who studied political psychology and worked as a cybersecurity consultant, supported the Dutch Labour Party, the political home of many Dutch Jews. As a teenager he left the Maimonides Jewish high school of Amsterdam, where most of his friends studied, mere months after beginning his studies there. His father, an Israel-born Sephardic Jew of Yemenite descent, and mother, an Ashkenazi Jew born in Brazil, had moved there from Israel, where they met. Even after leaving his Jewish school, Garmy, who has a brother and a sister, remained an active Jewish community leader, becoming the chairman of the Habonim Netherlands Jewish youth movement and the representative of young Jewish community members with the Central Jewish Organization of the Netherlands. He wants to end the public funding for religious schools like the ones he attended. He also opposed the Dutch government's decision to name a special rapporteur for the fight against anti-Semitism ... Garmy and Volt have drawn skepticism from some progressives, including some politically engaged Dutch Jews. "As a Dutch Jew, I'm afraid of placing a lot of power in one central government, even if it's democratically elected ... Read more ...

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The title should be:

He Moved To Israel To Join The Army, Now Jewish Supremacist Leads Dutch Party