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A local election pact between left-wing parties and the Islamic group Nida in Rotterdam has been thrown into doubt after a tweet from 2014 comparing Israel to ISIS came to light. The tweet, in English, listed a number of points of supposed equivalence between the Israeli government and Islamic State, which then controlled parts of Syria and Iraq. The claims included: ‘Illegally created “state”’, ‘terrorising indigenous inhabitants’ and ‘funded by the West’.
Barbara Kathmann, head of the Labour party’s (PvdA) list of candidates in the city, said the message was ‘unacceptable’ and ‘incomprehensible’ and called for Nida to issue an explanation.