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Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam
The Free Press ^ | 8 Nov 2024 | David de Bruijn

Posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:51 PM PST by Rummyfan

Israeli soccer fans were ambushed, beaten, and pleaded with their assailants: “not Jewish, not Jewish.” I grew up in the Netherlands. I wasn’t surprised.

As the Amsterdam Jewish community joined with local officials to commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the city’s Portuguese-Jewish synagogue—established by Jews who escaped the Inquisition—a pogrom was taking place outside. Following a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and the visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jewish and Israeli fans of the visiting club were ambushed and beaten in the city’s streets and alleys.

Footage shows an Israeli soccer fan being struck by a car, cartwheeling across the windshield. More footage shows the scene in downtown Amsterdam, where Israelis are pleading with their assailants, “not Jewish, not Jewish.” And they are beaten mercilessly.

In video of other attacks last night, a victim is struck and lays injured on the ground, seemingly unconscious. A father can be seen fleeing with his son. A man jumps into one of Amsterdam’s canals to escape his assailants. In the recording, where he is forced to say “Free Palestine,” his assailants laugh and jeer that he is a “cancer Jew”—a classic slur in Dutch, where both diseases and the Jewish ethnicity are deployed as put-downs.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: amsterdam; islam; islamists; jews; terror

1 posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Need to prepare for the worst going out for soccer game


2 posted on 11/08/2024 7:00:37 PM PST by balk
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To: balk

NO...not the point at all! Read the article; you’ll actually learn the FACTS!


3 posted on 11/08/2024 7:15:36 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Rummyfan

Me thinks Mosad will meet out retribution in due time.


4 posted on 11/08/2024 7:19:18 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Rummyfan

Bkmk


5 posted on 11/08/2024 7:35:30 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: balk

I watched all the painful videos. They better be ready coming for me tomorrow at sporting event.


6 posted on 11/08/2024 7:42:07 PM PST by balk
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To: Rummyfan

Sounds like the 34th SS Grenadier Division won’t have any trouble meeting recruiting quotas.


7 posted on 11/08/2024 7:46:00 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Rummyfan

“In other words, modern antisemitism in the Netherlands has, for the past several decades, been an affliction of the immigrant and secular communities, which few care to do anything about.”

Where they are, we will go, if we don’t do something to alter our direction.

We did something very important with the election of Donald Trump. A majority in the Senate may make a difference. The House? We are STILL waiting.

There are reasons for optimism. Pessimism too. Biden was senile and Kamala was a terrible last-minute replacement. So where was the 49 to 1 shellacking that Nixon and Reagan delivered?


8 posted on 11/08/2024 7:46:24 PM PST by ChessExpert (Scarborough: "This is the Best Biden ever.")
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To: ChessExpert

(No need to waste other info on you all.)


9 posted on 11/08/2024 7:49:03 PM PST by CharlesOConnell (Kucy)
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Very sad. One of our children and their family live in Amsterdam. They live in the neighborhood where the Frank family lived (before they went into hiding) and where the Anne Frank house is. Everywhere on the sidewalks are brass plaques embedded in the concrete with the names of the Jewish people who once lived in those particular buildings and perished in the death camps. It’s a constant reminder of what happened. I first visited in 2022. Close to my grandchildren’s school is a synagogue. Every Friday and Saturday, there would be armed police guarding it. I was glad it was being guarded, but found it very unsettling that such protected was deemed necessary. And now, from the above article: “...Just last month, Dutch police officers indicated they would not be comfortable guarding Jewish institutions over their ‘moral objections”’ to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza....”

The footage from last night was disturbing. Thank goodness Geert Wilders recently gained so much support and infuence in the House of Representatives.


10 posted on 11/08/2024 7:56:36 PM PST by Kipp
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To: ChessExpert

> So where was the 49 to 1 shellacking that Nixon and Reagan delivered? <

That was back in the days when the mainstream media was at least somewhat fair. But no longer. The nightly news was reliably anti-Trump. No mention of Kamala’s many failures or her stupid remarks.

Same goes for the talk shows.

Trump had to overcome that wall of propaganda. And overcome it he did.


11 posted on 11/08/2024 7:56:57 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: balk
I watched all the painful videos. They better be ready coming for me tomorrow at sporting event.

Did you see the video of the israeli soccer fans mocking the dead spanish victims of the flood that recently occurred?

https://x.com/JoahSantos/status/1854861682889150518

12 posted on 11/08/2024 8:03:23 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Rummyfan

bookmark


13 posted on 11/08/2024 8:41:13 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Rummyfan

Well, if the civil wars start in Europe, Europeans cannot claim to be surprised, as attacks like these SHOULD have alerted them to their abject stupidity in letting this bunch in.


14 posted on 11/08/2024 9:03:00 PM PST by BobL
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To: Kipp

To my knowledge, most synagogues in America now require armed guards every week for Shabbat, plus other gatherings. There was a cop at my grand daughter’s naming ceremony in Waco, TX September 2023.


15 posted on 11/09/2024 1:34:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )
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