Six months ago, someone painted a large Palestinian flag along with anti-Israel graffiti on the wall of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
The message says "Stop the genocide. Stop "Israeli" terror. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free! BDS IPSC"
The local Jewish community is frightened and do not want to go to a hospital with such a message. It is clearly inflammatory and upsetting, not to mention illegal.
It is still there.
Why hasn't the hospital removed it?
That's what the Democratic Union Party's Diane Dodds asked Belfast Trust Chief Executive Maureen Edwards. "My understanding is that it has been there for almost six months. In the interests of a health service that's available and open and everyone is welcome to that health service, it is a bit appalling that we have waited six months to get rid of antisemitic graffiti," Dodds noted.
Not because they disagree that the graffiti is antisemitic.
Because they are fearful as to what the pro-Hamas BDS antisemites would do to them if they erased the message.
