The ongoing Islamist campaign to render Jewish life untenable in Europe achieved a significant milestone on 7 November 2024, when mobs of pro-Hamas thugs attacked Jews in the streets of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam just a few days short of the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
During the riots, which took place after a soccer match between the Dutch Ajax team and the Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv team, Dutch authorities reported that antisemitic rioters “actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them.” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema described the attacks as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads.” At a news conference covered by Radio Free Europe, Halsema said, ”This is a very dark moment for the city, for which I am deeply ashamed.” Peter Holla, the city’s acting police chief, declared at the same news conference that the Israeli fans were “willfully attacked.” Radio Free Europe reported that Netherland authorities had previously prohibited a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration near the stadium during Maccabi’s visit, citing security concerns amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
During the riots, mobs, apparently composed of Muslims, hunted and ambushed Israelis and Jews. Assailants violently beat many Israelis, including women, after asking them where they were from. Attackers threw people into the city’s waterways and forced one man to shout “Free Palestine” before allowing him to climb out of the water. Mobs even attacked families with children, stole their passports, and published images of them online. Several X (formerly Twitter) accounts claimed that Arab social media networks had shared videos from the pogrom, allegedly edited by Hamas’s military wing. The recordings reportedly begin with chants of “Allahu Akbar,” followed by footage of attacks on Israelis, including cursing and violence.
Dutch security forces were reportedly nowhere to be found as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants. According to the Dutch media network RTL, an Israeli said he and his friend begged the police for help during the assaults and they were told: “If you are attacked, try to run away as fast as you can.” The Israeli government sent several planes to the city to evacuate its citizens in the aftermath of the attack. Then, on November 11, Geert Wilders, a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, posted video of Islamist rioters attacking and throwing bombs at an Amsterdam tram, shouting “cancer Jews.”
David de Bruijn, a Dutch lecturer in philosophy at Auburn University in Alabama, told The European Conservative that the attack on Jews was a preplanned attack organized on communications apps such as WhatsApp. “To Dutch Jews, [the attack] does not come as a surprise,” de Bruijn said. “Violent antisemitism (physical attacks and verbal slurs like ‘cancer Jew’) have been a feature of life for decades.” De Bruijn said that the hostility toward Jews is always expressed under the guise of pro-Palestinian activism and are “not associated with any particular war.”
In a statement sent to the Dutch government on 8 November 2024, and obtained by The European Conservative, Jewish leaders in the Netherlands condemned the failure of police to act. In the statement, the Netherlands’ Chief Rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, and Ellen Van Praagh, the president of IPOR Dutch Jewish Communities, rejected claims of hooliganism, declaring that the assaults were a deliberate and vile expression of Jew hatred, evidenced by masked individuals hunting Jews and throwing them into canals. “This is Europe now in 2024,” they warned in the statement, describing a continent plagued by increasing antisemitic violence. They called for governments to “wake up,” insisting that combating antisemitism must no longer be treated as business as usual: “These assaults are not an isolated incident. It is part of a much bigger picture of Jew hate since October 7th in the Netherlands, Jews cannot take public transport, they are fearful … Every day, across the continent, hundreds of smaller incidents of Jew hate take place. They do not receive the public response, nor the government response they deserve.”
Sonja Dahlmans, a Dutch journalist based in the Netherlands who closely monitors the country’s media, told The European Conservative that the pogrom did not simply erupt on the day of the soccer match, but was precipitated by the failure of officials to put a lid on anti-Jewish hostility that has become increasingly evident in the city ever since Hamas perpetrated a massacre in Israel in late 2023. “Ever since October 7th, the Amsterdam City Council allowed a lot of anti-Jewish songs, posters, threats, and even physical attacks in the city,” she said, adding that the problem was the fault of policy makers, not police in the city. Open hostility toward Jews was particularly pronounced at the University of Amsterdam (Uva), where masked student protesters caused staffers at the school to tremble with fear, Dahlmans explained. “All of this—and a lot more—was allowed—so this is more of a built-up than a sudden incident,” she said.
Political and media elites who refused to confront the issue of mass migration from Muslim-majority countries into the Netherlands—and Islamic hostility toward Jews—also played a part in the pogrom, said Dahlmans. “Not daring to mention and analyse a problem will not help you solve anything … Those who speak out are often silenced,” she added, citing the case of Mona Keijzer, who was criticized when she mentioned antisemitic passages in Islamic scriptures on national television in July 2024. Dahlmans observed that a speech-chilling effect meant that, “Instead of being able to open the debate and have a much-needed conversation, she was blamed and vilified, sending the message to all of us that you best not speak up, or you will face the consequences.”
Islamic antisemitic incidents were on the rise in Europe even before the October 7 massacre, noted Dahlmans:
In Malmo (Sweden), London (UK), Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and in cities in Belgium and Germany too, chants of “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud” were screamed. Noth much was done by authorities to stop these incidents that called for violence against Jews.
The assaults against Israelis in Amsterdam are reminiscent of London in 2021 when chants of “F*** their [Jews’] mothers, rape their daughters” sounded through Jewish areas of north London. On the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015, a Jewish shop was also targeted. A jihadist stormed through the doors of a kosher supermarket, Kalashnikov blazing, and took its customers hostage. Four of them were killed in the four-hour ordeal. In 2014, the Jewish Museum in Brussels was attacked by Mehdi Nemmouche, a jihadist. Nemmouche opened fire at the museum, killing four people. In Amsterdam today, Jewish schools need military police to protect them.
Dahlmans observed that “There has been an increase of such outbursts of Jew-hatred, and it is done now even more openly than before. Of course, it is not only Muslims that have an antisemitism problem, but speaking about Islamic antisemitism is almost impossible.” Other voices expressed their condemnation against the November 7 assault in Amsterdam. Juliana Taimoorazy, President of Assyrians against Antisemitism, told The European Conservative:
The attack on Jews in Amsterdam is a tragic reminder of just how low humanity has sunk, revealing a disturbing normalization of hatred. Our silence is not neutral; it is complicity. By failing to speak out, we are, in effect, collaborators with those who would deny others their right to live without fear. This is a moment to reclaim our collective conscience and take a resolute stand against such acts of cowardice and violence.
Indeed, Jews in Europe have experienced more antisemitic incidents since October 2023, with some organisations reporting an increase of more than 400%. Professor David Patterson told The European Conservative that, ”The Jews of Europe are in the greatest danger they have faced since the days of National Socialism.” Hillel Feinberg, distinguished chair in Holocaust Studies of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies of the University of Texas at Dallas, is a voice worth heeding:
This pogrom in Amsterdam tells us that the Jewish people have once again been abandoned by a world that, in this case, fears Islamist antisemites more than it fears the God of Abraham. Thanks to the incitements to Jew hatred from pro-Hamas Islamists and left-wing intellectuals, spilling Jewish blood has become a moral requirement for being counted among the righteous. The antisemitic premise is not that all Jews are evil but that all evil is Jewish.
If Dutch and other European governments wish to put a stop to the murderous pogroms against the Jews, they must first name the evil. Much of the coverage of the evil avoids the use of the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘antisemitism,’ speaking instead of ‘Arabs’ and ‘pro-Palestinians.’ When the phrase ‘Islamist mobs’ is used, there is seldom any explanation of what that means. ‘Pro-Palestinian’ means pro-Hamas, and pro-Hamas means pro-murder, pro-torture, pro-rape—all in the name of Allah. Allah is a false god who insists upon offerings of Jewish blood, and the ‘Islamist mobs’ offer up that blood because it is an act of devotion to Allah. That is why they pray when they burn and behead Jews: Allahu akbar! And why Jewish blood in particular? Because the Jews are the most ancient witnesses to expose Islam as a false religion. So what should European governments do to prevent acts of murder at the hands of these Islamist mobs? They must outlaw human sacrifice. They must impose very severe penalties for the demonization of the Jews, Israeli and otherwise, because to demonize the Jews is to demand that they be murdered.
The Islamic pogrom against Jews in Amsterdam is the consequence of an expanding problem in Europe: mass illegal, Islamic immigration, Islamic antisemitism, and the lack of moral courage from European heads of state. Yet, there is still hope. Geert Wilders said the rioters want to “destroy Jews” and recommended the deportation of those found guilty of any such involvement if they had dual nationality. That would be a step in the right direction.
Before even bloodier incidents occur, Western Europe should wake up as soon as possible and adopt a no-tolerance stance for Islamic antisemitism. Regressive, Jew-hating barbarity has no place in the civilised world.
Sources Claim Islamists Preplanned Amsterdam Pogrom
NICK GAMMON / AFP
The ongoing Islamist campaign to render Jewish life untenable in Europe achieved a significant milestone on 7 November 2024, when mobs of pro-Hamas thugs attacked Jews in the streets of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam just a few days short of the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
During the riots, which took place after a soccer match between the Dutch Ajax team and the Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv team, Dutch authorities reported that antisemitic rioters “actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them.” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema described the attacks as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads.” At a news conference covered by Radio Free Europe, Halsema said, ”This is a very dark moment for the city, for which I am deeply ashamed.” Peter Holla, the city’s acting police chief, declared at the same news conference that the Israeli fans were “willfully attacked.” Radio Free Europe reported that Netherland authorities had previously prohibited a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration near the stadium during Maccabi’s visit, citing security concerns amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
During the riots, mobs, apparently composed of Muslims, hunted and ambushed Israelis and Jews. Assailants violently beat many Israelis, including women, after asking them where they were from. Attackers threw people into the city’s waterways and forced one man to shout “Free Palestine” before allowing him to climb out of the water. Mobs even attacked families with children, stole their passports, and published images of them online. Several X (formerly Twitter) accounts claimed that Arab social media networks had shared videos from the pogrom, allegedly edited by Hamas’s military wing. The recordings reportedly begin with chants of “Allahu Akbar,” followed by footage of attacks on Israelis, including cursing and violence.
Dutch security forces were reportedly nowhere to be found as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants. According to the Dutch media network RTL, an Israeli said he and his friend begged the police for help during the assaults and they were told: “If you are attacked, try to run away as fast as you can.” The Israeli government sent several planes to the city to evacuate its citizens in the aftermath of the attack. Then, on November 11, Geert Wilders, a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, posted video of Islamist rioters attacking and throwing bombs at an Amsterdam tram, shouting “cancer Jews.”
David de Bruijn, a Dutch lecturer in philosophy at Auburn University in Alabama, told The European Conservative that the attack on Jews was a preplanned attack organized on communications apps such as WhatsApp. “To Dutch Jews, [the attack] does not come as a surprise,” de Bruijn said. “Violent antisemitism (physical attacks and verbal slurs like ‘cancer Jew’) have been a feature of life for decades.” De Bruijn said that the hostility toward Jews is always expressed under the guise of pro-Palestinian activism and are “not associated with any particular war.”
In a statement sent to the Dutch government on 8 November 2024, and obtained by The European Conservative, Jewish leaders in the Netherlands condemned the failure of police to act. In the statement, the Netherlands’ Chief Rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, and Ellen Van Praagh, the president of IPOR Dutch Jewish Communities, rejected claims of hooliganism, declaring that the assaults were a deliberate and vile expression of Jew hatred, evidenced by masked individuals hunting Jews and throwing them into canals. “This is Europe now in 2024,” they warned in the statement, describing a continent plagued by increasing antisemitic violence. They called for governments to “wake up,” insisting that combating antisemitism must no longer be treated as business as usual: “These assaults are not an isolated incident. It is part of a much bigger picture of Jew hate since October 7th in the Netherlands, Jews cannot take public transport, they are fearful … Every day, across the continent, hundreds of smaller incidents of Jew hate take place. They do not receive the public response, nor the government response they deserve.”
Sonja Dahlmans, a Dutch journalist based in the Netherlands who closely monitors the country’s media, told The European Conservative that the pogrom did not simply erupt on the day of the soccer match, but was precipitated by the failure of officials to put a lid on anti-Jewish hostility that has become increasingly evident in the city ever since Hamas perpetrated a massacre in Israel in late 2023. “Ever since October 7th, the Amsterdam City Council allowed a lot of anti-Jewish songs, posters, threats, and even physical attacks in the city,” she said, adding that the problem was the fault of policy makers, not police in the city. Open hostility toward Jews was particularly pronounced at the University of Amsterdam (Uva), where masked student protesters caused staffers at the school to tremble with fear, Dahlmans explained. “All of this—and a lot more—was allowed—so this is more of a built-up than a sudden incident,” she said.
Political and media elites who refused to confront the issue of mass migration from Muslim-majority countries into the Netherlands—and Islamic hostility toward Jews—also played a part in the pogrom, said Dahlmans. “Not daring to mention and analyse a problem will not help you solve anything … Those who speak out are often silenced,” she added, citing the case of Mona Keijzer, who was criticized when she mentioned antisemitic passages in Islamic scriptures on national television in July 2024. Dahlmans observed that a speech-chilling effect meant that, “Instead of being able to open the debate and have a much-needed conversation, she was blamed and vilified, sending the message to all of us that you best not speak up, or you will face the consequences.”
Islamic antisemitic incidents were on the rise in Europe even before the October 7 massacre, noted Dahlmans:
The assaults against Israelis in Amsterdam are reminiscent of London in 2021 when chants of “F*** their [Jews’] mothers, rape their daughters” sounded through Jewish areas of north London. On the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015, a Jewish shop was also targeted. A jihadist stormed through the doors of a kosher supermarket, Kalashnikov blazing, and took its customers hostage. Four of them were killed in the four-hour ordeal. In 2014, the Jewish Museum in Brussels was attacked by Mehdi Nemmouche, a jihadist. Nemmouche opened fire at the museum, killing four people. In Amsterdam today, Jewish schools need military police to protect them.
Dahlmans observed that “There has been an increase of such outbursts of Jew-hatred, and it is done now even more openly than before. Of course, it is not only Muslims that have an antisemitism problem, but speaking about Islamic antisemitism is almost impossible.” Other voices expressed their condemnation against the November 7 assault in Amsterdam. Juliana Taimoorazy, President of Assyrians against Antisemitism, told The European Conservative:
Indeed, Jews in Europe have experienced more antisemitic incidents since October 2023, with some organisations reporting an increase of more than 400%. Professor David Patterson told The European Conservative that, ”The Jews of Europe are in the greatest danger they have faced since the days of National Socialism.” Hillel Feinberg, distinguished chair in Holocaust Studies of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies of the University of Texas at Dallas, is a voice worth heeding:
The Islamic pogrom against Jews in Amsterdam is the consequence of an expanding problem in Europe: mass illegal, Islamic immigration, Islamic antisemitism, and the lack of moral courage from European heads of state. Yet, there is still hope. Geert Wilders said the rioters want to “destroy Jews” and recommended the deportation of those found guilty of any such involvement if they had dual nationality. That would be a step in the right direction.
Before even bloodier incidents occur, Western Europe should wake up as soon as possible and adopt a no-tolerance stance for Islamic antisemitism. Regressive, Jew-hating barbarity has no place in the civilised world.
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