Bullying tactics by a lawyer in Amsterdam after suspect was apprehended for damage to Jewish restaurant …
PERSBERICHT
Belager koosjer restaurant blijkt terrorist uit Syrië #Carmel pic.twitter.com/mFIqx9NJI9
— Loonstein Advocaten (@LoonAdvocaten) 13 december 2017
Man holding Palestinian flag smashes windows of Amsterdam kosher restaurant | JTA |
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 Palestinian flag.
The incident at HaCarmel restaurant occurred Thursday morning, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The AT5 television station showed a video of the incident, in which a man holding a large stick while holding a Palestinian flag and wearing a Palestinian keffiyah scarf on his head smashes the window and kicks down the restaurant’s doors as passersby and two police officers look on.
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In the video, the officers wait as the man breaks into the restaurant and then returns to the street holding an Israeli flag that he took from inside, which he throws at their feet. They then overpower and arrest him.
Police said the man, which a spokesperson defined as a “pro-Palestinian activist,” was 29-year-old foreigner with a temporary residence permit. Police would not indicate his nationality, the WNL television channel reported. The suspect is scheduled to be released Wednesday as per the maximum detainment period afforded by the law for suspects arrested for alleged vandalism, WNL reported.
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 pictures of a Dutch police officer kneeling in front of a shattered glass window.
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.
Dutch politician blames Trump for anti-Semitic Amsterdam attack [should read anti-Israel attack of course – Oui]
JTA – A major coalition party in the Netherlands blamed President Donald Trump for an assault against a kosher restaurant by a man carrying a Palestinian Authority flag.
A spokesperson for the left-leaning Democrats 66 party made the accusation Thursday, hours after the assault on the HaCarmel restaurant, which some see as a reaction to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel capital on Wednesday.
Reinier van Dantzig, who heads the party’s faction on the Amsterdam city council, wrote on Twitter: “How awful that this happened. It shows how thoughtless statements by the leader of the free world have direct consequences. Let us show clearly that there is no room for intolerance in Amsterdam!”
Herman Loonstein, a Dutch-Jewish leader who heads the Federative Jewish Netherlands group, condemned van Dantzig’s statement as “cowardly and obscene,” adding it was a form of “victim blaming.”
Israel the Terrorist State Supports Al Nusra in Syria
The suspect is a Syrian refugee from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus. The fighting he was involved in was in defending his home from Al Nusra and IS terrorists who wanted to conquer this district in order to fight the Syrian army. How can a pro-Israel lawyer in Amsterdam make wild accusation on social media – have you no shame! The CIDI information agency has gotten competition from extremist Likud groups making devisive statements in Dutch society. These extremists are hands in glove with the political party PVV of Geert Wilders and well known for its Islamophobia.
Israel has given unashamed aid to terrorists of al Nusra along the Golan Heights front during the Syrian civil war. The state of Israel worked together with Saudi Arabia on intelligence and foreign policy to overthow the Assad regime in Syria. Goal was to create further chaos in the Middle East. The Al Qaeda proxies supported by these two states, Qatar and NATO allies were defeated by Russia, Hezbollah fighters and Shia militia from Iraq.
○ Early 2012, U.S. Intelligence Envisioned ISIL as a Strategic Asset
Clashes in Damascus refugee camp after reported arrival of ISIS | The Guardian – 2015 |
Fighting has erupted throughout Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, with observers claiming Islamic State has entered the area, less than 10 miles from the Syrian capital’s most secure hub.
Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian camp in Syria, has been a frequent battle zone pitting regime forces against mainstream and Islamist rebels during more than three years of fighting, which along with a brutal siege has emptied it of all but around 15,000 of its pre-war population of close to 200,000 residents.
However, no organised Isis presence has previously been reported inside the camp. The terror group has a hold over much of eastern Syria, part of the north and the Qalamoun mountains near neighbouring Lebanon, but it is not known to have established a foothold in Damascus.
Officials from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) said Isis entered the camp from the Hajjar al-Aswad area. Rebels who had remained in Yarmouk’s ruins are said to have attacked the new arrivals, and clashes reportedly continued until the evening.
Israel expels reporter from leading Dutch newspaper | EI |
Israeli officials also claimed that Walters had not informed them of a change of address from Tel Aviv to occupied East Jerusalem, a further excuse to present the visa denial as being for bureaucratic and procedural reasons.
Dutch lawyer Herman Loonstein also meddled in NRC’s relationship with the Israeli press office.
The Electronic Intifada obtained a copy of a November 2016 letter to Israeli official Ron Paz. In the letter, Loonstein attests that NRC’s editor in chief Peter Vandermeersch is also a senior official with the company that owns the newspaper.
On this basis, the Israeli press office even tried last year to claim that NRC is not a recognized media organization because of the alleged conflict of interest between its commercial and editorial sides represented by Vandermeersch’s dual role. NRC Handelsblad was formed in 1970 from the merger of two newspapers founded in the first half of the 19th century.
But the Government Press Office dropped this attempt to delegitimize NRC after the Dutch embassy intervened.
The intervention by Loonstein aimed at curtailing NRC’s coverage of Israel’s actions indicates collusion between pro-Israel activists in the Netherlands and the Israeli government.
Loonstein operates under the banner of the Federated Jewish Netherlands, an outfit that has been described by the former head of Dutch Israel lobby group CIDI as a “one-man club.”