Four Muslim men were convicted on Wednesday, March 19th for crimes committed during the horrific antisemitic attacks in Amsterdam in November last year.
The court was extremely lenient towards the perpetrators: the harshest sentence handed out was a 12-week stay in prison.
Three of the men were sentenced on charges of inciting violence in a WhatsApp messaging group, where they insulted Jews and shared information about the whereabouts of Israeli football supporters, who were in Amsterdam to see their club, Maccabi Tel Aviv play Ajax Amsterdam.
A fourth man was found guilty of committing violence in public, after chasing an Israeli supporter through the streets of Amsterdam.
As the court heard, participants in the WhatsApp group encouraged each other to “hunt down Jews.”
One of the men, Cenk D. wrote that “a dead Jew is better than a living Jew,” and that “all Jews should be gassed.” He also praised the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, whose militants carried out the massacre of October 7th, 2023, killing more than 1,100 innocent Israeli citizens.
Another man, Kamal I. shared information about the location of Israeli supporters, and urged other participants in the group to “hunt, hunt, hunt.” He also asked if anyone had a truck so that he could “ram into them.”
As we previously reported, 20 to 30 people were injured, some of them hospitalized, in November last year after Israeli football fans were attacked by a pro-Palestine mob in Amsterdam following a match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The perpetrators proudly filmed their actions, and evidence later emerged that WhatsApp and Telegram groups had been created in advance to coordinate these attacks.
So far, 14 of the 36 identified suspects have stood trial for their actions. In December, five of them were sentenced for their role in the violence, with the harshest punishment being a stint of six months in prison.
Liberal politicians and their media have either remained silent on the issue, or attempted to frame the events in Amsterdam as “street riots” involving both pro-Palestinian Muslims and Jews. To date, the ‘memory-holed’ pogrom has attracted little public criticism.
As Raouf Leeraar, Policy Director at Israel Allies Foundation Europe recently told europeanconservative.com:
Initially, there was widespread condemnation of the antisemitic attacks. But as soon as investigations revealed that the perpetrators were predominantly Muslim immigrants, the narrative shifted. Suddenly, the attackers became victims.
