Dutch Cafe Owner Calls for Violence Against Israeli Tourists
A Dutch restaurant owner called for violence against Israeli tourists in response to the spike in violence in Israel.
Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on anti-Semitism filed a complaint with police for incitement to violence on Thursday against Youness Ouaali, 30, pertaining to text he posted on Facebook two days earlier about a picture of a blood-covered boy titled “Palestinian child shot by Israel’s illegal occupation clutching on to his last breath.”
Ouaali, who owns the Bon Appetit cafe in the city of Bussum near Amsterdam, wrote: “Maybe it’s a good idea, starting today, to totally smite down Israeli tourists (not children)?”
He added: “Those who won’t listen need to feel. Enough is enough!!! Time to give a clear signal, I think. 14 years old and cold-bloodily shot down and sworn at till his last breath!!! May Allah reward him with djenna,” Arabic for heaven.
Ouaali appears to be referring to a 13-year-old Palestinian boy whom Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week said was executed, but is alive and hospitalized in a Jerusalem hospital. The boy is recovering from wounds he sustained when he was hit by a car after stabbing an Israeli of the same age riding a bicycle.
“The violence must not spill over to the Netherlands,” the watchdog group, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, said in a statement. “It is of importance that Ouaali be located and urgently be brought before a judge.”
The text he wrote about Israelis should be removed, the center said.
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