JERUSALEM – On Sunday, Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the worst antisemitic pogrom in opposition to Jews of this century in Europe.
Netanyahu directed his blistering remarks on the violent antisemitic mob assault in opposition to Israelis that spread out within the Dutch town of Amsterdam on Thursday. “We will never allow the atrocities of history to recur. We will never capitulate to antisemitism or terrorism,” he mentioned.
He added, “A clear line connects the two antisemitic attacks against Israel that we have seen recently on Dutch soil: The reprehensible legal assault against the State of Israel at the International Court in The Hague, and the violent assault against Israeli citizens on the streets of Amsterdam. In both cases, there was dangerous antisemitism, the goal of which was to render helpless the Jews and their state, to deny our state the right of self-defense and to deny our citizens their very right to life.
“The day prior to this we marked Kristallnacht … It was once a brutal and violent attack in opposition to Jews simply because they have been Jews. Sadly, in fresh days we noticed footage that recalled that evening. At the streets of Amsterdam, antisemitic rioters attacked Jews, Israeli electorate, simply because they have been Jews.”
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the IDF Officers Course Graduation Ceremony, at IDF Training Base. (Ma’ayan Toaf, Israel Government Press Office)
Netanyahu warned that, “Assaults of this sort threaten now not handiest Israel however endanger all of the international. Now we have discovered one thing from historical past: Wild assaults that get started in opposition to Jews, by no means finish with the Jews. After all, they unfold to all of crowd, and go from nation to nation till they burn all of humanity. Subsequently, I be expecting and insist that each and every accountable executive jerk robust, full of life, cloudless and pressing motion.”
Including to the rage in opposition to Dutch government, the chief of the Birthday celebration for Independence, Geert Wilders, blasted leaders in Amsterdam for failing to arrest the perpetrators.
Writing on X the day past he mentioned, “I’m speechless. Amsterdam Police simply showed that NO ONE has been arrested right through the Islamic Jewhunt in Amsterdam on Thursday evening. All arrests were made prior to and right through the football fit and NOT right through the pogrom.”
The Dutch baby-kisser suggested that Amsterdam’s left-wing mayor Femke Halsema renounce instantly.
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Halsema, who comes from the Dutch Inexperienced birthday celebration, referred to as the violence “an eruption of antisemitism that we had was hoping by no means once more to peer in Amsterdam,” according to The Associated Press.
Meanwhile new information has emerged about the highly organized antisemitic attacks on Jews in a city where Nazi collaborators infamously abandoned the German Jewish adolescent Anne Frank, who was in hiding, to the Nazis during World War Two.
The Holland Casino in Amsterdam reported that after Israelis fled into the casino for refuge, a security guard who worked for the casino “had certainly despatched messages within the app staff” that was looking to harm the Israelis.
According to Holland Casino’s statement, “Measures have been promptly taken, and the employer was once knowledgeable that this individual is not welcome at Holland On line casino. Workers of Holland On line casino or the ones of businesses leased through Holland On line casino should prioritize the pursuits of Holland On line casino, our visitors and our group of workers. This didn’t occur on this case. Additionally, there’s no park inside of Holland On line casino for any mode of violence, discrimination or antisemitism.”
Israeli football supporters were reportedly attacked by groups of local Arabs near Amsterdam Central station, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 8, 2024, in this still image obtained from a social media video. (X/iAnnet/via Reuter)
The Israeli news agency TPS-IL reported that the Rabbi and volunteers from the Chabad House in Amsterdam and an Israeli Druze man had played a role in aiding the victims.
“The evening prior to the sport, there have been skirmishes between Israeli lovers and native Arabs. So after we began to listen to information concerning the disagreement upcoming the sport, we first didn’t understand the scope of what was once going down,” Rabbi Dovi Pinkovitch, head of the Chabad Area within the heart of Amsterdam, instructed TPS-IL.
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The rabbi mobilized native Jews and Israelis dwelling in Amsterdam to help Israelis trapped within the streets, getting them safely to inns. “There have been circumstances when native taxis took the Israelis in opposition to the middle of the clashes rather of bringing them to protection, so we understood we want to backup. The volunteers, of their personal automobiles, labored all evening lengthy to get loads of Israelis to the inns,”
An Israeli Druze named Melchem Assad gave vital early warnings to Israelis about the violent assaults taking place. As he was exiting the train on his way from the game to the hotel, he noticed a group of men speaking Arabic about beating those wearing a blue scarf and speaking Hebrew. So he returned to the train station and ordered the arriving groups of Israelis to take off the Maccabi Tel Aviv symbols, disperse and not speak Hebrew.
Assad told TPS-IL that by his estimation, he managed to help at least a hundred and fifty Israelis. “I’ve a child boy at house and my middle was once beating brittle as I used to be drawing near that staff. However I’m an Israeli, and I knew I had not anything to do however to backup if I may.”
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Leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders speaks to the press after a meeting with the Speaker of the House at the House of Representatives in The Hague, on November 24, 2023. After his shock election win, far-right Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders on Friday kicked off the formal process of building a government coalition, battling to convince reluctant rivals to serve under him as premier. (Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the Times of Israel, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told the Israeli president in a readout that “We failed the Jewish people of the Netherlands right through Global Warfare II, and latter evening we failed once more.”
Amsterdam’s population is roughly 920,000 people, with about 20,000 Jews. Prior to the Holocaust, 80,000 Jews lived in Amsterdam. A total of 40,000 Jews live in the Netherlands. There are roughly one million Muslims in the northern European country, and 90,000 Muslims reside in Amsterdam.
Wim Kortenoeven, a former Dutch MP in Wilders’ party and a Middle East expert told Fox News Digital that “The Dutch police forces were Islamized to the level that the Muslims police officers now really feel assured to negative protective Jewish establishments for causes of ‘conscience,” he claimed.
Echoing a report in the Jerusalem Post in October quoting two Jewish police officers, Kortenoeven noted, “Only last month this came into the open with Jewish cops in Amsterdam blowing the whistle about that, warning in the media that Jewish targets under threat of terrorist attack may therefore not be protected. They were proven right this weekend when over a thousand extra police were not willing to effectively protect Jewish Israeli football under attack from Muslim mobs.”
Kortenoeven, who now lives in Israel, added that “Such a massive force can only deliberately be so ineffective. Witnesses and victims also testified that the police remained passive in the face of the Muslim aggressors. There were no arrests either. The arrest that were made this weekend did not involve the Arabs attacking the Jews. Meanwhile, the authorities refused to properly identify the Muslim mobs and hit teams, calling them ‘guys on scooters.’”
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In this image taken from video, police in riot gear run towards a soccer stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, Nov. 7. (RTL Nieuws via AP)
Halsema declined to note at Friday’s news conference that the alleged perpetrators were Muslim and of Moroccan origin, noted Dutch critics of Islamism. The mayor’s office said in a press release that the suspects were merely “scooter juniors,” in a connection with the common form of town transportation impaired through younger Dutch Arabs.
On Sunday, Fox Information Virtual approached the Amsterdam police area for a remark.
