A WOMAN who cut down yellow ribbons for Israeli hostages held in Gaza has been “attacked” and death threats sent to her daughter’s school, her husband has claimed.
Nadia Yahloim, a PhD researcher who is funded by the taxpayer, was , North , on the day before the second anniversary of the October 7 attack by on .
Nadia Yahlom claims she was doing nothing wrong when she was confronted while cutting down yellow ribbons from railings near a synagogue
Yahlom says the yellow ribbons were ‘condoning genocide’
She used scissors to remove the ribbons which had been tied to park railings near a synagogue.
When she was confronted she said she wasn’t committing a and the yellow ribbons which are used as a symbol of the “Bring Them Home” campaign for the hostages were “condoning genocide”.
The said it was investigating the incident and the following day Yahlom, 36, voluntarily attended a station where she was interviewed under caution.
Yahlom is a student at the University of Westminster and also an artist.
The university said in response to the story: “there is no place for any form of discrimination at our university”.
Her husband Mo’min Swaitat, a actor and director from Jenin in the West Bank, now claims a backlash against him and his wife has been engineered by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency.
Swaitat came to in 2011 on a scholarship to study clowning and mime at the London International School for Performing Art, which has since closed.
Having deleted all his previous posts on the website , he wrote on the platform that he and his wife would not be responding to messages because they had been “attacked by an extremist group probably working for Mossad in our neighbourhood in north London” in the wake of the incident.
He said: “We have been attacked and stranded to be killed etc.”
A woman who said she was Yahlom’s mum said her daughter had been “pounded by death threats”, including at her six-year-old daughter’s school and at her university.
She claimed they had had to contact the police.
She told The Times : “There has been a lot of lies and terrible misrepresentations… she did not say lots of the things she was supposed to have said.
“There is a difference between snipping down [the ribbons] and hounding people with death threats endlessly and her six-year-old daughter. What kind of people are they?
“What’s gone on is pretty horrible and lots of lies have gone on.”
Swaitat has regularly posted about and the conflict in Gaza on his page.
He claimed his life in Palestine had been “ruined by this group of criminal European and Arabs who came together to be the military colonial settler state”.
He added: “I don’t believe in living together with this people in harmony and equality and equal rights or sharing with them my landscape or inheriting that they have stolen anyway.”
While in another post online he said he didn’t want the “white superman” state of Israel “to exist in its form now”.
A neighbour said she regularly had “small talk” with Yahlom and often saw her playing with her daughter, according to the news outlet.
The neighbour, who has not been named, said she did not realise Yahlom “felt that strongly” about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
She said: “She came across as a nice person so I was shocked when I saw the video. I didn’t expect that level of hate.”
Yahlom’s research examines “hauntedness, supernatural life” in and how it relates to historical and contemporary violence.
A research website describes the work as considering “how experiences, memories and tales of hauntings may be explored through participatory artistic practice”.
The research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council which receives more than £100million a year from the government.
The Sun Online has contacted the Met Police and the Israeli government for comment.
Yahlom’s husband now claims a backlash against him and his wife has been engineered by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency
The act came less than a week after the Manchester synagogue attack 
