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.”
Amsterdam headquarters of Doctors Without Borders vandalized with paint
https://nltimes.nl/2025/11/16/amsterdam-headquarters-doctors-without-borders-vandalized-paint
17 Comments
despite_velasquez@lemmy.world · 125 pts · 276d
Aren’t Doctors Without Borders active, and also losing doctors to IDF strikes in Gaza? What’s the complaint here?
PonytaMuk@lemmy.ca · 53 pts · 276d
Machine translation of the referenced site:
Blue and white paint is likely chosen to express support for Israel.
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 39 pts · 276d
Yes, this is zionist activism. People who take issue with slogans like "End the genocide".
Hoimo@ani.social · -11 pts · 276d
So this "nltimes" website couldn't even properly translate the article they copied? What a waste of digital space.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 18 pts · 276d
complains that a Dutch website does not translate all their pages into perfect English
Hoimo@ani.social · 3 pts · 276d
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:
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).
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 276d
You know what? Fair enough. But you should've taken the time to clarify all that before you got called out.
Hoimo@ani.social · 0 pts · 276d
Yeah, I guess, but I figured the mistake was obvious and no one cared enough about Nltimes' reputation to defend them.
PeacefulForest@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 276d
unconsequential@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 276d
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.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
The people who vandalized aren't against the genocide. The banner is one of the things that was defaced.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 276d
Only that the perps were obviously pro-Israel and how dare you say anything against the genocide.
ech@lemmy.ca · -11 pts · 276d
Wild string connecting guess - Israel = Jewish people -> Jewish people = Globalism -> Globalism = No Borders -> No borders = DWB. QED, DWB is endorsing Israeli genocide.
4am@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 276d
Please get your head checked, you racist idiot
Did they vandalize themselves? How does your statement make any sense?
ech@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 276d
Bud, I'm not agreeing with it. It's just an attempt to make a lick of sense out of this craziness.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 0 pts · 276d
🎶
It makes none.
But now they're gone.
And they must be feeling very old tonight.
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TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 1 pts · 276d
In the Netherlands? What a shame to learn that level Americanesque idiocy has found a foothold.
poopkins@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 276d
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.