Esther Voet
{{short description|Dutch journalist and editor}}
Esther Hilah Voet (Wassenaar, 1963) is a Dutch journalist, lobbyist and editor. She worked as a reporter for the right-wing newspaper De Telegraaf, the gossip magazine Story, and the media company RTL Nederland. In 2009 she became the editor in chief for the Jewish weekly Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad where she worked until 2011. From 2009 to 2015 she was director of the {{Ill|Center for Information and Documentation Israel|nl|Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël}}, a lobby organization which aims to secure the prosperity and image of the state Israel anywhere in the world.
Biography
Voet had a troubled childhood; a difficult relationship with her father forced her to become independent at age sixteen, as she explained in an interview with Trouw in 2014. She started her career in journalism working for Henk van der Meijden, editor of the gossip section of De Telegraaf.{{cite web|url=http://www.esthervoet.nl/curriculum.htm|title=Curriculum|publisher=Esther Voet|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}} By the end of the 1980s she was a reporter for Story, a weekly tabloid dedicated to celebrity news and gossip. She left because she was tired of the superficial nature of her work, and afterward apologized to people she felt she had hurt in her articles. She spent two years, from 2009 to 2011, working for the Jewish weekly Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, and then became director of the Centrum Informatie en Documentatie Israël, or CIDI,{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/Nieuws/article/detail/3723735/2014/08/23/De-tijd-dat-Joden-zich-domweg-lieten-afvoeren-is-voorbij.dhtml|title=De tijd dat Joden zich domweg lieten afvoeren is voorbij|last=Visser|first=Arjan|date=23 August 2014|work=Trouw|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}} a position that requires her to comment publicly on such matters as Holocaust education,{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/Nieuws/article/detail/3724297/2014/08/25/Een-lesuur-Holocaust-is-niet-genoeg.dhtml|title=Een lesuur Holocaust is niet genoeg|last=Baars|first=Laura van|date=25 August 2014|work=Trouw|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}} Nazi literature (the ongoing debate over the accessibility of Mein Kampf),{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/Nieuws/article/detail/3794430/2014/11/20/Mein-Kampf-zinvolle-censuur.dhtml|title=Mein Kampf: zinvolle censuur?|last=Fijter|first=Nico de|date=20 November 2014|work=Trouw|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}} and antisemitism. She caused some uproar in the Dutch Jewish community when she disinvited Geert Wilders from signing a petition condemning antisemitism.{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/5009/Archief/archief/article/detail/3724215/2014/08/25/Wie-spreekt-er-namens-de-Joodse-Nederlanders.dhtml|title='Wie spreekt er namens de Joodse Nederlanders?'|last=Poll|first=Wilfred van de|date=25 August 2014|work=Trouw|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}} During a speech to the Knesset she warned about the growing antisemitism she saw among the Dutch.{{cite news|url=http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/224/BINNENLAND/article/detail/3705236/2014/07/29/Esther-Voet-tegen-Knesset-Nederlandse-joden-vrezen-antisemitisme.dhtml|title=Esther Voet tegen Knesset: 'Nederlandse joden vrezen antisemitisme'|last=Damen|first=Ton|date=29 July 2014|work=Het Parool|language=Dutch|accessdate=11 December 2014}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.cidi.nl/esther-voet/ Esther Voet] at CIDI
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Category:Dutch newspaper journalists
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Category:20th-century Dutch women journalists
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Category:People from Wassenaar