Mass Antisemitic Attacks -- The New Normal

"Jews must feel safe n the Netherlands, everywhere and at all times."

"We put our arms around them and will not let them go."

Dutch King Willem-Alexander

 

"It's against everything we're proud of in Amsterdam."

"I'm very ashamed of the behaviour that was shown last night."

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema

 

"[This is the] disturbing reality of Jewish life in 2024."

"And if nothing is done to address the scourge of antisemitism targeting our community, it won't be long before Amsterdam becomes Montreal or Toronto following one of the usual weekly pro-terror demonstrations."

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

"This is a dark moment for our world -- and one we have seen before."

"My heart goes out to the victims, and the entire Jewish community today."

"Canada condemns this disgusting antisemitism."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

People protest in support of Palestine in Toronto on Saturday, October 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey

 

Only one of those messages is a hypocritical lie. Canada is next in line for the kind of atrocious display of violent Jew-hate that was revealed in Amsterdam last week. The wonder is that such an event has not yet played out. But it will, as long as the country's prime minister mouths insincere inanities and fails to ensure that criminal acts of espousing hatred against an identifiable group with a view to marginalizing it and threatening violence, while fomenting dire safety and security situations; against Canada's criminal laws continue, but never are acted upon.

 

Several weeks back Canada officially placed a Palestinian group, Samidoun, inciting to violence against Israel and Jews, and more latterly against Canada as a 'colonialist' entity, on the country's terrorist list. The formal designation has done nothing to stop its co-founder from continuing to organize group protests and to deliver addresses slandering Israel and threatening Jewish Canadians, stimulating crowds of Muslims and their enablers to continue their chants of 'from the river to the sea', along with 'globalize the intifada!, both calls for the destruction of Israel. Canadian authorities fail to act.

Amsterdam's Johan Cruyff Arena was the venue that saw the Netherlands soccer team Amsterdam Ajax and Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv engage in a match, which brought out fans on both sides. Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv team travelled to the Netherlands specifically to cheer on their team. The arrival was noted by local pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups in the Netherlands who have long agitated against Israel as an 'occupier' of Palestinian land. The presence of Jews cheering on their team gave Amsterdam's Muslim population the opportunity to stage a mass attack by pursuing and beating Jews.

Reuters

"The harsh pictures of the assault on our citizens in Amsterdam will not be overlooked."

"Prime Minister Netanyahu views the horrifying incident with utmost gravity and demands that the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters, and ensure the safety of our citizens."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office statement

Now, days later, similar statements will have to circulate to Belgium, Sweden and France, where swarms of pro-Palestinian thugs have gathered with a similar project in mind; chasing down and beating Jews wherever they can be found. Amsterdam police who, in response to the pogrom of last Friday arrested some of those involved, have in fact laid no charges and all who were arrested have been released. It has been in fact revealed that some members of the Amsterdam police force refuse to intervene altogether, citing a personal moral dimension favouring the mob and damning the Jews.

The Amsterdam rampage where pro-Palestinian youth mobs, new migrants and radical Islamists sought out Jews and Israeli soccer fans, threatening, beating, forcing some of the victims to mouth 'free Palestine' as they shoved them in the canal and marched door-to-door, hotel-to-hotel int heir search for Jews, reflected a huge surge in the Netherlands of antisemitism it he wake of last year's October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel by thousands of terrorists who raped, slaughtered and took hostages of Israeli citizens.

 

In this image taken from video, people march with Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, November 7, 2024. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were targeted by anti-Israel rioters in what victims and witnesses said was an organized attack by Arab and Muslim gangs following a soccer match. (AP Photo InterVision)

During that time of social upheaval, reports emanated of Dutch police refusing to guard Jewish sites; the Dutch National Holocaust Museum  included, over the 'moral dilemma' they cited in reference to the Israel-Gaza-Hamas conflict. In other words, the inroads that Palestinians and Muslims in general have made in Dutch society with their antisemitism, uprooting values of tolerance and respect, tearing the fabric of democratic societies has made its indelible mark.

In Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and beyond, protests by pro-Hamas mobs with their chants to "free Palestine" and "Globalize the Intifada" have been allowed to proliferate. Mobs of Muslims have gathered in major intersections in Toronto to shut down traffic as they indulge in group prayers with a sense of entitlement, a municipal criminal offence that is yet to see those involved arrested, much less the prayer sessions interrupted for fear of being labelled 'Islamophobic'. Any time Justin Trudeau murmurs a statement of 'regrettable' over displays of antisemitism, the obligatory addition of 'Islamophobia' accompanies it.

Violence perpetrated against synagogues, Jewish parochial schools and social centres, as well as private businesses sees no response from governments at any level with a view to countering the unprecedented displays of viral hatred infecting the public sphere. To add to the anguish of an  unprotected Jewish-Canadian public under constant stress of threats, the government is proceeding with a mass intake of refugees/migrants from Gaza, where a massive proportion of the population fully approved of the atrocities of October 7, 2023.

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