3 women accost Dutch-Jewish woman at home over daughter’s IDF service

Three women accost a Jewish Dutch nurse on her doorstep, calling her a “child murderer” because of her daughter’s service in Israel’s army.

The incident Wednesday in the heavily Jewish Amsterdam suburb of Amstelveen follows weeks of incitement in fliers and social media posts against the nurse over her daughter’s military service in Israel, De Telegraaf daily reports Wednesday.

One of the woman’s accosters tells her that she should be ashamed of herself, adding “I don’t understand why you are still here in the Netherlands,” the victims says.

Speaking to De Telegraaf anonymously, the nurse says: “It feels like in World War II when the addresses of Jews were given out.” The intimidation follows the surfacing online of a video of the nurse’s daughter in IDF uniform. Fliers advertising her address in Amstelveen and accusing her of complicity in “child murder” began appearing around her neighborhood in February, with online banners bearing the same language, she says.

People flying Palestinian flags came looking for the woman in her workplace, too, she adds.

“Residents beware, a child murderer lives in the neighborhood. This genocidal maniac returned from her murderous activities in Israel and will be soon be tried,” the text of one flier reads. It features pictures of the nurse’s daughter. “Her mother sent her bitch daughter to kill babies, she is also an accomplice,” reads the text, which includes the address, workplace and names of the two women.

Naomi Mestrum, the director of the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Dutch Jewish community’s watchdog on antisemitism, tells De Telegraaf that the women “specifically targeted” the nurse in an organized action.

The woman is planning to complain to police shortly, Mestrum says, but “her feeling of safety has been seriously compromised.”