Dutch Online News: Director Esther Voet away at CIDI after ‘difference of opinion’

Friday, May 1, 2015

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Amber Dujardin and Marije van Beek – 05/01/15, 12:15

Esther Voet starts at the Information Centre Documentation on Israel (CIDI) due to a disagreement with the board about the future of the organization. Chairman Ronnie Eisenmann: “Esther has no opportunity left to address abuses She did well, but we want our less activist draw in the future…”

“We are absolutely not gone rolling down the street,” emphasizes Eisenmann. “But our resources are limited and the next time we want to focus again on its original objectives. A number of areas we want to leave it to other Jewish organizations, such as security and commemorate.”

The CIDI will, in short, back to the core: it indicate what is happening in Israel and fighting anti-Semitism. “When Esther was assumed we had just the desire to have a significant presence in the public debate,” said Eisenmann. “But now we want to draw less activist.”

Fury
The CIDI has long been trying for the ‘right to peace and security for Israel and the Jewish people anywhere in the world. ” “If anything happens to my loved ones, comes the fury out of me and I can not vouch for myself,” Esther Voet said last year in an interview in Trouw. “So it is with Israel: they stand with their backs against the wall, let me first say that I regret the death of every citizen and to be made for all these aspects, but I know how high the morale is being held. in the Israeli army. Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization. “

In conversations about Israel they sometimes flew off the road, Foot admitted in the same interview to. “People often think that violent women are angry women that’s not so,. I’m just passionate and it’s that passion that I’ve got to rein in their discussions if I do not want to lose my credibility.”

Foot was more than two years as director of CIDI, where she took office in 2012 as Deputy Director. It is not yet known who her follow after June 1. Foot will focus on her work as a journalist, publicist and opinion maker. She previously worked at the New Jewish Weekly, Story, De Telegraaf and RTL Netherlands.