The headquarters of Doctors Without Borders on Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam was vandalized early Saturday morning, authorities reported.

According to Het Parool, the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

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    8 hours ago

    To be clear, according to AT5, the banner reading “End the genocide now.” was vandalized.

    It seems like whoever did this has a disgusting perspective if they are in favor of genocide and against Doctors Without Borders.

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    16 hours ago

    Aren’t Doctors Without Borders active, and also losing doctors to IDF strikes in Gaza? What’s the complaint here?

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      7 hours ago

      I am equally confused. They’ve consistently been a voice from the trenches. I was anticipating some zio propoganda. I think I’ve missed something.

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        The people who vandalized aren’t against the genocide. The banner is one of the things that was defaced.

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      12 hours ago

      Machine translation of the referenced site:

      Images of AT5 show that, among other things, a canvas on the facade of the building, with the text ‘End the genocide now’, is covered. The canvas had been there for a long time, and had been hung by the relief organization itself.

      Blue and white paint is likely chosen to express support for Israel.

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        11 hours ago

        So this “nltimes” website couldn’t even properly translate the article they copied? What a waste of digital space.

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            Nltimes is an English-only website targeting expats/immigrants who want to read Dutch news. They have literally one job, which is translating Dutch news articles into English for their English-speaking audience. I expect a certain level of care, especially when this translation error makes it seem like the banner was part of the vandalism and not the target of the vandalism, completely reversing the meaning of the act:

            the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

            But Parool opens the article with “the banner was smeared with paint” and “MSF placed the banner after consulting with Joods Cultureel Kwartier” (which I assume is a Jewish organisation).

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              You know what? Fair enough. But you should’ve taken the time to clarify all that before you got called out.

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      15 hours ago

      Wild string connecting guess - Israel = Jewish people -> Jewish people = Globalism -> Globalism = No Borders -> No borders = DWB. QED, DWB is endorsing Israeli genocide.

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        11 hours ago

        Please get your head checked, you racist idiot

        Did they vandalize themselves? How does your statement make any sense?

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          Bud, I’m not agreeing with it. It’s just an attempt to make a lick of sense out of this craziness.

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        In the Netherlands? What a shame to learn that level Americanesque idiocy has found a foothold.