Pogrom in Amsterdam

Nov 10, 2024 by Jill

by Melanie Phillips:

“Globalise the intifada” they’ve screamed for a year. This was the result.

Two days before tonight’s 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom in Germany in 1938 that acted as the prelude to the Holocaust, a pogrom took place in Amsterdam.

On Thursday evening, following a football match between the Dutch club Ajax and the visiting team of Maccabi Tel Aviv, there were horrifying scenes in what appears to have been an organised onslaught on Jews.

Hundreds of Israelis were hunted down and beaten by rampaging mobs of Arabs and other Muslims.

The victims reported what appeared to be a planned and co-ordinated onslaught, with attackers waiting at various points to ambush fans as they returned from the match. The police did nothing to stop this, reportedly driving nonchalantly by as Jews were attacked on the streets. Fans reported that the police told them not to take taxis because Muslim taxi-drivers were themselves hunting for Jews to attack.

The Jews were beaten, stabbed and run over by cars. One Maccabi fan told Israeli TV:

They were waiting for us, terrorists on every street corner and simply tore apart every Israeli that came their way. We were beaten, humiliated, stabbed, run over. They literally drove on sidewalks in order to run over Jews. Until the Fanatics organisation came out to protect the beaten, no one helped us, the police ignored everything that was happening.

Another said he was attacked by around 15 young Arab men, some of whom were armed with knives and clubs, as he left the game with his son:

“They started hitting us, they broke my face, knocked out a tooth, cut my lip,” he said. ‘My son got punched twice in the face.” He added that he is now locked in his hotel room with tables blocking the door.”

Many barricaded themselves inside their hotels. Others pleaded with their assailants: “Not Jewish, not Jewish” before they were beaten.

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