A handful of anti-Israel demonstrators tried to break into a speech by Science Minister Daniel Hershowitz at Erasmus University in Rotterdam Thursday evening. Security forces overcame the demonstrators and prevented them from entering the lecture hall where the Bayit Yehudi-New National Religious Party chairman spoke.

During his speech Rabbi Hershkowitz said the demonstrators support terror, adding, "A war crime is the infiltration of a ship with weapons of mass destruction and not the defense of bombarded citizens." He told Arutz Sheva, "In spite of the attempt to disrupt the speech, the message got through."