Two tourists have been hospitalised after a family of Israelis were attacked by guests while on holiday at a Center Parcs in the Netherlands.
The assault was carried out on the family of five at the Center Parcs De Kempervennen on Thursday, in the southern village of Westerhoven.
The tourists left the resort early following the incident and two sought medical treatment at a hospital in Eindhoven, according to the Israeli embassy in The Hague.
The case is being handled by the Dutch police and one person has been detained, however it is understood that there are more suspects who are believed to be involved.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry condemned the incident and called on the Dutch government to ‘come to its senses and act resolutely to prevent attacks on Israelis in its territory, to locate the criminals, and to bring them to justice’.
It comes just days after pro-Palestine student activists took to social media to complain about hundreds of ‘Zionists’ holidaying in another Center Parcs resort in the Netherlands.
The video, shared on Instagram this week, appears to show a number of Israeli families with their faces blurred staying at the Center Parcs De Eemhof in Flevoland.
The assault was carried out on the family of five at the Center Parcs De Kempervennen on Thursday, in the southern village of Westerhoven
The tourists left the resort early following the incident and two sought medical treatment at a hospital in Eindhoven, according to the Israeli embassy in The Hague
pro-Palestine student activists took to social media to complain about hundreds of ‘Zionists’ holidaying at Center Parcs De Eemhof in Flevoland.
The activists call on their 13.4 thousand followers to use similar videos to determine whether any ‘war criminals of the Zionist entity’ are holidaying in the Netherlands, and to report them to the police to be arrested.
‘Over a hundred of citizens of the Zionist Entity are staying at Center Parcs de Eemhof, Zeewolde this week,’ the activists wrote.
‘Who is screening these people traveling to the EU visa-free? Are they complicit in war crimes and genocide by the Zionist Entity?’
‘If all else fails: mobilise, show them we see them, and make clear they are NOT welcome,’ the post said.
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) a Dutch organisation that combats antisemitism, called the video a ‘Jew Hunt Part 2’ following the attacks against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam last November, which were allegedly pre-meditated well in advance on the messaging app Telegram.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the ‘planned antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens’, and Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, called the events ‘an antisemitic pogrom’.
The CIDI filed a legal complaint following the footage, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Center Parcs is reportedly conducting its own investigation into the social media post, which is still available online as of Friday 22 August.
A masked mob, some carrying Palestinian flags, are seen running riot through the streets of Amsterdam in November
Relieved to be home: A fan of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel-Aviv is met by a family member at Ben Gurion International Airport on November 8, 2024
‘Everyone staying with us does so as a holiday guest and is welcome as long as the park rules are followed and everyone treats each other with respect,’ a Center Parcs spokesperson said regarding the video, according to Omroep Flevoland.
‘We understand that world events can evoke strong emotions. Our aim is to provide an environment where everyone feels safe and can be together in peace,’ they added.
A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in The Hague told the Daily Mail:
‘This is not the first time that Israelis visiting the Netherlands were violently attacked. The sequence of actions is very alarming.
‘We expect the Dutch authorities to take urgent measures to protect Israelis and Jews in the Netherlands. Intimidation and violence against people because of their background is unacceptable.’
Several groups of Jewish tourists have encountered hostility while travelling abroad this summer.
On Wednesday night, cars belonging to a group of strictly Orthodox British Jews were vandalised with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti in a French Alpine town.
It is understood that local authorities in Châtel in the Haute-Savoie region have opened an investigation into the incident and are reviewing CCTV in an effort to identify who is responsible.
In July, dozens of French-Jewish students aged between 10 and 15 and several adults were kicked off Vueling flight V8166 as it waited on the tarmac at Valencia for ‘unruly behaviour’.
The expulsion of the 44 students amid reports they were endangering the safety of the flight sparked a row, with the carrier coming under fire for alleged anti-Semitism.
The holiday camp the children were flying with accused Vueling of ‘brutality’ as footage emerged showing their adult group leader being detained with handcuffs by Spanish police.
Some nine vehicles belonging to a group of strictly Orthodox Jews, some of whom were from Stamford Hill in London , were reportedly vandalised with spray paint in French town Châtel
Local authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and are reviewing CCTV in an effort to identify who is responsible
Hundreds demonstrate against the arrival of Israeli cruise passengers in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece on July 29, 2025
Protestors unveil a huge Palestine flag to greet the Israeli cruise ship as it arrives into port
Police in helmets and riot shields watch over the protest against the arrival of Israeli cruise passengers
In the same month, a Jewish man in Italy claimed he and his six-year-old son were attacked at a motorway service area by an enraged pro-Palestinian crowd.
They were both wearing traditional Jewish kippahs and attracted the attention of people at the services near Lainate on the main Milan-Lagi motorway.
In the clip which was later uploaded to social media, a group of people can be heard shouting in Italian ‘Palestina Libera ‘(Free Palestine)’ and ‘Go back home’.
Others also shout in Italian ‘Assassini’ (murderers) while another adds: ‘This isn’t Gaza, here is Italy’ and another can be heard shouting: ‘You will go to hell sooner or later’.
In interviews with Italian media he claimed to have been pushed to the floor and then kicked with the crowd demanding he delete the video.
And in Greece, Israelis travelling on the Crown Iris cruise ship have been forced to leave islands as soon as they arrived after being met with hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors.
Anti-war protesters on the Cycladic island of Syros were the first to hold a furious demonstration against the docking of the cruise ship containing tourists on July 22.
Some 1,700 Israeli nationals, including between 300 to 400 children, were prevented from disembarking at Ermoupoli and were instead diverted to the Port of Limassol in Cyprus.
Protestors clashed with riot police in separate demonstrations against the arrival of more Israelis on the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete in the following days.
