Jerusalem News. Attack in Amsterdam.
17 November 2024, 16 Cheshvan, 5785.
JN Report.
Attack in Amsterdam.
Contents:
A. The Events.
1. Outline.
2. News Reports.
3. The Pogrom in Amsterdam: Three Questions Every Jew Needs to Ask
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller . Extracts.
B. Ajax.
The "Suoper-Jews" of European Soccer.
4. Ajax.
The "Jewish" Top Level Soccer team in the Netherlands.
5. The Strange History Behind the Anti-Semitic Dutch Soccer Attacks
Ajax, the Dutch soccer club that Maccabi Tel Aviv played before its fans were ambushed in Amsterdam, has long identified itself with Jews.
By Franklin Foer
6. Jews to the gas: The anti-Semitism shaming Dutch soccer
By James Masters and Sean Coppack, CNN.
7. What Really happened?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Wikipedia Summary.
(c) In Summary: A Minor Ugly Affair with Possible Repercussions.
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1. Outline.
Israeli Fans brutally attacked after a match in Amsterdam on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
Before and during the events Islamic Social Media Calls to target Jewish People.
Match between Ajax and Maccabee.
[For more on Ajax, the "Super-Jew" non-Jewish soccer team, see separate article bekow.]
At least 5 people were hospitalized.
Relative scarcity of police presence.
Many of the policemen are Muslims. A large part of the Amsterdam police force is made up of second-generation migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
Policemen who for "reasons of conscience" did not want to protect Jews were excused from doing so and posted elsewhere.
So too, many (perhaps most) of the taxi drivers are Muslims and they took an active role in the disturbance, and in locating and attacking Jews.
Young people (assumedly Muslims) on scooters and on foot scouted through Amsterdam look ingfor Jews to attack and/or bring attention to attack them.
About 63 people arrested but only 4 were still in custody the next day.
Organizers of the attack on "Telegram" social media themselves called it a Pogrom" (attack on Jews usually entailing mob violence) and seem to have been proud of it.
Organized, co-ordinated, pre-planned attack.
Israeli fans and tourists were told to lock themselves in their hotel rooms and not go out.
Some Gentiles were also attacked and were heard screaming "I am not Jewish!"
Talk of a Global anti-Semitic movement demonizing the Jews and Israel.
Growing Muslim anti-Jewish activity in Britain, France, and Germany, and elsewhere including Australia. Growing.
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2. News Reports.
Israel National News (Arutz-7).
Violence in Amsterdam: Israeli soccer fans attacked by Arabs.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398818
Extracts:
Hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans report being attacked by Arabs as they left the stadium where Maccabi's game against AFC Ajax took place. At least 10 fans injured... An Israeli who was present at the scene: "The police only arrived after half an hour."
Disturbing footage from the city, which was posted to social media, fans are seen being violently attacked, beaten and even run over. One of the fans was forced to say "Free Palestine" before he was let go. Some of the fans barricaded themselves in shops and other places in the city. The local police escorted some of the Israelis back to their hotels.
The fans testified that an ambush had been prepared for them in advance at various points outside the stadium.
News Report: 2000 Israelis returned from Amsterdam in planes sent by Israeli government.
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3. The Pogrom in Amsterdam: Three Questions Every Jew Needs to Ask
https://aish.com/the-pogrom-in-amsterdam-three-questions-every-jew-needs-to-ask/?src=ac
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller .
Extracts:
On Thursday, November 7, hundreds of fans gathered in Amsterdam's Johan Cruyff Arena to watch the visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team play against the popular local Dutch team Ajax. Following the game, gangs of men roamed the city, chasing down and beating Israelis and Jews in an orgy of violence that brought to mind the darkest days of the Holocaust.
Though it hasn't been widely reported, at least three Israelis reported being set upon by gangs of Arab men and beaten up on Wednesday, November 6, a day before the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer game.
Two Israeli men, who gave their names to Israel's Channel 12 only as Oren and Or, 'said they were targeted and beaten' by 'Arab gangs in the city.' Both men said they'd reported the attacks to the police who did nothing.
A third Israeli man named Gal was more seriously injured that same day. He was 'forced to the floor by assailants who had demanded to know if he was Israeli.' He described being 'beaten up by a gang of 8-10 people - 'punched in the head; two teeth broken.' He said he 'woke up in an ambulance covered in blood' and was told afterwards that he was found in 'a pool of blood.'
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4. Ajax.
The "Jewish" Top Level Soccer team in the Netherlands.
Ajax (pronounced "Ay-yax") located in area which once contained many Jews but most have left. Nevertheless the area is still associated with a Jewish presence.
Ajax supporters are not usually Jewish but call themselves "Super-Jews." At soccer matches they display Israeli flags and sing Jewish sons such as the Hebrew language "Hava Nagila" ("Come, let us rejoice").
Many of the fans have tatoos with Jewish symbols (Tatooing is forbidden according to Biblical Law).
They emphasize they are not Jews but identify with Jews.
Feyenoord from Rotterdam is Ajax's archrival. Every year both clubs play the De Klassieker ("The Classic"), a match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.
Its fans shout anti-Semitic slogans and display Palestinian flags. At football matches against Ajax the followers of rival clubs (including Feyenoord fans) sometimes emit an "ssss" sound supposed to imitate the sound of gas being released just as Jews were gassed to death in Nazi concentration camps.
Speaking on behalf of Feyenoord there was an insistence that their behavior was not directed against Jews per se but rather it being all part of the "game" and rivalry with Ajax which has adopted a "Jewish" identity and is proud of it.
Ajax is probably the most successful team in the Netherlands. It adheres to an unorthodox soccer playing approach known as "total football" requiring individual initiative with team players supporting each other.
Due to the repeated success of Ajax and envy of the followers of other teams sometimes express their hatred of Ajax in anti-Jewish ways.
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5. The Strange History Behind the Anti-Semitic Dutch Soccer Attacks
Ajax, the Dutch soccer club that Maccabi Tel Aviv played before its fans were ambushed in Amsterdam, has long identified itself with Jews.
By Franklin Foer
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/jewish-history-behind-dutch-soccer-attacks/680601/
Extracts:
That this attack transpired on the streets of Amsterdam is beyond ironic. At least 75 percent of Dutch Jews died in the Holocaust. But there was an affectionate Yiddish nickname for the city: mokum, 'safe place.' After the Spanish Inquisition, Holland absorbed Iberian Jewry, which flourished there. Amsterdam was the city that hid Anne Frank, the most famous example of righteous Gentiles taking risks on behalf of Jewish neighbors. And then there was Ajax.
During those glorious postwar years, Ajax had two Jewish players; three of the club's presidents were Jews. Before games, the team would order a kosher salami for good luck. Yiddish phrases were part of locker-room banter. In Brilliant Orange, David Winner's extraordinary book about Dutch soccer, Ajax's (Jewish) physiotherapist is quoted as saying the players 'liked to be Jewish even though they weren't.'
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6. Jews to the gas: The anti-Semitism shaming Dutch soccer
By James Masters and Sean Coppack, CNN
Extracts:
Amsterdam was once a bustling center of Jewish life, home to the Sephardi community who arrived from Iberia in the 16th century, and to an Ashkenazi community who fled from Poland.
Before the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, an estimated 80,000 of the country's 140,000 Jews lived in Amsterdam.
Many of those who perished would go and watch Ajax, but it was really in the 1960s and 1970s that Ajax became known as a 'Jewish club.'
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7. What Really happened?
(a) Amsterdam.
A friendly soccer match took place between the Top Tier Amsterdam Team "Ajax" whose fans call themselves "Super-Jews" on one side and the Maccabee team from the Jewish State of Israel.
Prior to the match in Amsterdam it became the center of attention of Muslims through the Netherlands. Before the match the Muslims openly spoke of attacking Jewish supporters which they did beginning before the match took place and intensifying after it.
Islam is practised by about 5% of the Netherlands population according to 2018 estimates. The real numbers may be higher.
In Amsterdam a good portion of the police force is Muslim. Most of the taxi drivers are Muslim.
(b) Wikipedia Summary.
The attacks on Israeli fans were widely condemned as criminal and antisemitic by Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof, King Willem-Alexander, and several international leaders. The attacks and other acts by Israeli fans were also criticized for anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. A report released by the Amsterdam authorities four days after the riots described the causes as "a poisonous cocktail of antisemitism, hooligan behavior and anger about the war in Palestine and Israel and other countries in the Middle East", placing blame both on the antisemitism of those who attacked Maccabi fans and the provocations and violence of Israeli hooligans.
Most of the people involved in the "Jew Hunt" were thought to have been taxi drivers and youths on scooters, who believed there were ex-IDF soldiers and Mossad agents among the Maccabi fans.
In the nights following the attacks, people thought to be Jewish continued to be targeted, including being forced out of taxis and ordered to show their passports to check if they were Israeli.
(c) In Summary: A Minor Ugly Affair with Possible Repercussions.
It was an ugly affair. Both Israeli fans and Muslims were provocative BUT the Muslims were far worse and prepared themselves for much more beforehand.
The casualty rate was actually relatively quite low under circumstances.
The importance of the events may lie in their repercussions that will become apparent further down the line.