A Jewish columnist from Amsterdam said on Monday that she was denied medical care by a nurse who had refused to take off a pro-Palestinian pin shaped like a fist.

Jonath Weinberger, a dual Belgian-Israeli citizen who moved to the Netherlands in 2024, recounted the September incident in a column for the Dutch Jewish news site Jonet .

“When I entered the room where the doctor and a nurse were waiting for me, I was shocked. The nurse was wearing a large pin shaped like a fist in the colors of the Palestinian flag,” she wrote.

“Instinctively, I whispered to the paramedic that I didn’t feel safe being treated by someone displaying such a political statement. He cautiously asked the nurse if she could remove her ‘Pally’ pin,” Weinberger added.

According to the columnist, the nurse “reacted

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