Michael Jacobs is a pro-Israel activist living in the Netherlands.
He gained attention in the Dutch Jewish community for demonstrating against anti-Israel movements.
[1][2] In September 2016, he was controversially arrested for disturbing public order, after which he spent six days in jail after refusing to stop picketing in Dam Square in Amsterdam.
[1] Prosecutors later dropped charges against him after complaints from Amsterdam's Jewish community.
[3] According to the Jewish Daily Forward, he has been responsible for “ending [the] monopoly” enjoyed by anti-Israel activists on the "street-level Israel debate”.