The Netherlands is now searching El Al passengers at Schiphol for goods from the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria, or East Jerusalem—treating personal belongings as a matter for political enforcement.

Fine. But two can play that game.

If the Dutch government believes it is proper to use commerce, customs inspections, and the threat of prison to make a political statement against Israel, then Israel should use every diplomatic and legal instrument available to demand reparations for Jewish assets stolen in the Netherlands during the Holocaust and for the injustices inflicted on survivors afterward.

You cannot have one without answering for the other.

The Netherlands cannot claim the moral authority to scrutinize Israeli passengers over a bottle of wine, an olive-oil product, or a souvenir while avoiding a full reckoning over the homes, businesses, savings, art, insurance proceeds, and family property taken from Dutch Jews—and over the disgraceful treatment many survivors faced when trying to reclaim what was theirs.

This is not a call to forget history. It is the opposite.

History has consequences. If Dutch officials want to establish the principle that a government may impose economic and legal pressure over alleged historical or political wrongs, Israel should insist that the same principle applies to the Netherlands’ unresolved debt to Dutch Jewry.

No more selective morality.

No more demands that Israel submit quietly to punitive measures while Europe’s own record is treated as ancient, closed, or inconvenient.

The message should be simple: if you want to play the reparations-and-accountability game against Israel, be prepared to answer for your own unpaid bill.