Anti-Israel activists in Belgium staged a street performance last month depicting triumphant Palestinian gunmen shooting Israelis, Israel’s ambassador to Brussels said on Monday.
The show, featuring four main performers wearing keffiyehs, two of them in military fatigues, was documented on May 15 in Brussels, Ambassador Idit Rosenzweig-Abu wrote on X, where she also posted a video of part of the show.
In it, the main performers advance through a square with another person behind them, with his hands bound behind his back. In front of them is a bloodied white sheet resembling a body bag and several people or mannequins lying on the floor.
The four men move about the square, one of them pointing a stick as if it were a rifle in the direction of the prostrate figures. The men cheer and clap to music and a recording of a man saying, “The Palestinian people are fighting from River to the Sea to create a free, democratic Palestine.”
Rosenzweig-Abu said she had received many queries about the video, but initially believed it was fake.
“I got this from many people and didn’t post about it because I just couldn’t believe it’s real. But it is. Here in Brussels. Reenactment of the 7/10 massacre. Blood and bodies on the floor and all. Organized by #Samidoun, who else?” she wrote.
On Oct. 7, 2023, an estimated 6,000 terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel in an operation led by Hamas. They murdered some 1,200 people and abducted another 251.
Anti-Israel activists commemorate on May 15 what they call “Nakba Day,” a reference to the defeat of the Arabs during Israel’s War of Independence of 1947-1949.
Founded in 2012 and designated by Israel as a terrorist entity in 2021, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network promotes the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization through an international network of activists, according to the NGO Monitor watchdog group.
Commenting on the video, NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg wrote on X: “Germany, the U.S., Canada and Israel have banned Samidoun as a PFLP terror front. Why is Belgium, the seat of the EU, allowing this to continue?”
Samidoun did not immediately reply to a query by JNS seeking its reaction to claims it organized the show.
