October 7 widow told "go back to the ovens" at Dutch event

Sabin Ta'asa, a resident of Netiv Ha'asara who lost her husband Gil Hy"d and her son Or Hy"d in the October 7 massacre, described this morning (Friday) the confrontation she experienced at a screening of the Supernova documentary in the Netherlands. In an interview on Keshet 12's "Osim Chag" programme with Galit Gutman and Yoav Limor, Ta'asa recounted the shocking antisemitic abuse she received from members of the audience.

"This isn't my first time doing this --- I've been at this for three years," Ta'asa said. "What I didn't expect was to see the kind of hatred toward Jews that I saw there. Someone came up to me and said, 'Go back to the ovens in the Holocaust, we need another Hitler to exterminate you.'"

Ta'asa added in pain: "I'm 50 years old and I've been through things in my life, but I've never experienced antisemitism like this." Until six months ago, she said, she worked almost alone on the hasbara front and encountered difficult cases, but the incident in the Netherlands managed to shake her.

Since the tragedy that struck her family, Ta'asa has chosen to dedicate her life to the battle for international awareness. She has become a prominent spokesperson for Israel's hasbara effort, working around the clock in countries across the world. Her husband Gil was murdered while defending their young children from Hamas terrorists, and her son Or, 17, was shot to death at Zikim beach.

Despite the painful encounter with hatred, Ta'asa made clear that the responses she received only strengthen her determination to continue the hasbara mission. "This struggle is very important, and the budgets must go to the hasbara headquarters," she said with passion. "This is the work of our lives. We do this as complete volunteers for the sake of the state - it's an inseparable part of our fight."

"Just as we fight the enemy on the ground, so we must fight this hatred and change the narrative in the world, or it will blow up in our faces," Ta'asa added. "We have no other choice."

At the end of the interview, Ta'asa sent a clear message to boycott supporters and to the audience that stood opposite her in the Netherlands: "This isn't a trend, it's simply antisemitism showing evil in its purest form. If they tell me to do it again and stand before them, I won't think twice. The State of Israel is the most important thing in the world to me."