The pogrom in Amsterdam is a taste of the future in Europe
By Giulio Meotti. Source Arutz Sheva Nov. 9, 2024.
I’ve written about it so much that the crazy scenes in Amsterdam felt like déjà vu.
In Amsterdam we have seen scenes that should shock Europe forever: hundreds of Jews were hunted down and beaten by the Muslim crowd after a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax. Whether it was a spontaneous explosion or an organized attack, the latter being the most likely, Israelis were injured and Israel was sending emergency flights on Shabbat to evacuate its citizens.
Say it again: Israel was sending emergency flights on Shabbat to evacuate its citizens. Not from Yemen or Syria or Iran or Kabul. No, from Amsterdam.
In Amsterdam, only one in three children under 15 is a Dutch native. Islam is already the first religion in Amsterdam. For years, Mohammed has been the first name among newborns in the four largest cities in the Netherlands: The Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht.
The most notable comment is from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who knows the Netherlands well. She tries about “the takeover of the city”, something very specific. “I mean the takeover of the city’s internal security apparatus. Today, a large part of the Amsterdam police force is made up of second-generation migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Since October 7 last year, some officers have already refused to guard Jewish sites such as the Holocaust Museum”.
Beatings and chases in the streets and on trains, people throwing themselves into the canal to save themselves, Arab patrols to check passports.
The Islamic attackers proudly shared their violent acts on social media. What do you remember? October 7. Yes?
We are inside the great "utopia" of opposing cultures that meet and clash in an obsessively prescribed coexistence and that, if not stopped, will result in civil war.
I fear the worst, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali: that the Dutch authorities knew that the Israelis would be attacked and that they did not protect them. In October, news broke that the Dutch police refuse to protect Jews.
The great Holocaust historian, the late Robert Wistrich, wrote:
“It is not for nothing that former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein advised the Dutch Jewish community to emigrate to avoid harassment by fanatical young Muslims. The verdict is on the wall, for anyone with eyes to see. The reward for Europe’s deplorable and cowardly appeasement of Islamism will, however, be short-lived. Because kowtowing and stubborn blindness has a high long-term cost. Muslims will eventually take revenge on a European society they detest.”
Dear dhimmis, mark these words: after the Jews will come all the others, Christians, secularists, atheists, agnostics and ultimately their accomplices, until the “peace” of Islam reigns over all of Europe.
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Last night, we witnessed horrific violence on the streets of Amsterdam. Jewish fans who came to watch Israel's soccer team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, were attacked just for being Jewish. These were premeditated and coordinated attacks, and it's time to call it what it is. A pogrom.
A pogrom is a targeted attack against a specific group of people, historically, most commonly the Jewish community. It comes from a Russian word, which means to wreak havoc. Think of it as an organized Jew hunt.
Now, people online and in some media outlets are saying that Jewish fans deserved it, that the Jews deserved to be beaten up and thrown in the river. They're also saying that the attacks happened because of the war between Israel and Hamas and the other Iranian proxies in the region. But ask yourself this. What other civilians are being hunted down in the streets of a foreign country because of a war their country is fighting? A war they didn't even start.
So let's be clear on this. The brutal attacks in Amsterdam were not a sports brawl, payback for offensive chants at a soccer game, or solidarity with Gaza. It was a deliberate, orchestrated assault on defenseless Jewish people, a reminder of the violent pogroms our communities have faced for centuries. This is the result of years of ignored warnings about antisemitism, unchecked and preposterous lies and slander about Israel, and the worldwide spread of radical jihadi ideology. It's time for leaders around the world to take antisemitism in its modern form, anti-Zionism, very seriously.
The difference between last night's pogroms in Amsterdam and the ones that the Jewish community have faced for 2,000 years is that now the Jews have a place to go. They have a country that can defend them and come to their rescue. Violence against Jews never brought on peace, and it sure is not going to free Palestine. But here's what we do know, that historically, violence that starts with the Jews doesn't end there. And this is something that should be of grave concern, not just for the Jewish community, but for humanity at large.