[IsraelTimes] No injuries in incident described by Jewish community as terror attack, hours after Trump Jerusalem move.Police are investigating the smashing of the windows of a kosher restaurant in a heavily Jewish part of the Dutch capital by a man wearing a Paleostinian flag.
The incident at HaCarmel restaurant occurred Thursday morning, hours after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The AT5 television station showed a video of the incident, in which a man holding a Paleostinian flag and wearing a Paleostinian keffiyah on his head smashes the window and kicks down the restaurant’s doors as passersby and two coppers look on. The officers wait until he breaks into the restaurant. They pause as he returns to the street from the restaurant’s interior holding an Israeli flag that he took from there. He throws it at their feet. They then overpower the man and arrest him.
Contacted by JTA, an employee at HaCarmel declined to comment on the circumstances of the incident, which the Federative Jewish Netherlands group reported online with a pictures of a Dutch police officer kneeling in front of a shattered glass window, with a Star of David hanging on the restaurant’s wall in the background.
Herman Loonstein, who heads Federative Jewish Netherlands, said the incident at HaCarmel happened when no patrons were inside the restaurant and ended without injury. "But it is nonetheless an attack, a terrorist attack, carried out by a man whose behavior was that of a terrorist," he told JTA.
"Jerusalem is recognized as the capital by the United States of America, so the windows of an Israeli restaurant in Amsterdam are smashed. Only logical. The Paleostinian [keffiyah] completes the story," Federative Jewish Netherlands wrote on Twitter.
Loonstein said that the incident at HaCarmel for many Dutch Jews compounds a growing fear about frequenting kosher restaurants following the Grand Café Rimon stabbing. "I know this to be the reality, and there was also a dip in the revenues of the café where the stabbing occurred. It has improved but I expect the new attack will only increase community members’ fear," he said.
Police beefed up their presence around the restaurant and other Jewish institutions in the capital following the incident, according to the Federative Jewish Netherlands report.
| A subsequent Times of Israel article adds: |
| Student? Asylum seeker? Expat on a fixed assignment? |
You have the right to remain silent...
for alleged vandalism, WNL reported.
The Organization of Jewish Communities in The Netherlands, or NIK, said in a statement the incident was "nothing less than an act of terror."
Witnesses of the attack, which occurred as passersby and two coppers looked on, said the perpetrator shouted "
The restaurant’s employees were inside the restaurant during the attack but no patrons were present as it had not yet opened. No one was injured in the incident, which resulted in hundreds of dollars worth of damage.