Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has denounced what appeared to be a coordinated and large-scale targeted attack by anti-Israel mobs in Amsterdam on Thursday night as a “pogrom” on the streets of the capital.
As Breitbart News reported, Dutch security forces appeared unable to protect the tourists. The tourists were ambushed by a group of masked attackers who roamed the streets shouting “Free Palestine” while hunting, beating and brutally harassing Israelis.
The targeted violence occurred after the local Ajax soccer team defeated visiting Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Mr Wilders voiced his opposition on social media site X (officially known as Twitter), writing:
It appears that Jews are being hunted on the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport those multicultural bastards who attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters on our streets. It's embarrassing that something like this can happen in the Netherlands as well. Totally unacceptable.
After expressing his disgust, he called for immediate action.
Pogrom on the streets of #Amsterdam.
We have become the Gaza of Europe.
A Muslim hunts down a Jew with a Palestinian flag.
I don't accept that. Never.
The authorities will be held accountable for failing to protect Israeli citizens.
Never again.
of era of israel report Ten Israelis were hospitalized and three lost contact with their families after several hours of overnight violence.
The newspaper said the attack “appeared to have been carried out mainly by local Muslims and Arabs, and hundreds more were holed up in hotels, fearing that they would be attacked again as they arrived on their flights home.” He was reportedly afraid.”
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schauff condemned the “unacceptable anti-Semitic attacks against Israelis.”
He added that he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and assured him that “the culprits will be tracked down and prosecuted.”
The US special envoy to combat anti-Semitism issued a statement condemning the attack. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt said:
I am horrified by tonight's attack in Amsterdam, which is terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom.
We are also deeply disturbed by how long the reported attacks have lasted and call on the government to involve security forces and conduct a thorough investigation into how these dastardly attacks occurred.
“In a terrible historical irony, this event occurs two days before the tragic anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews broke out across the German Empire,” she said. added. Kristallnacht.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called the attack “a red flag for any country that wants to uphold the values of freedom.”
“This morning we woke up to shocking images and videos that we had hoped to never see again since October 7th: an anti-Semitic pogrom,” he wrote on X. .
In this image taken from video, pro-Palestinian supporters are seen marching with Palestinian flags near Ajax Stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before clashing with visiting Israeli fans on Thursday, November 7, 2024. . (AP Photo Intervision)
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, also expressed disgust at the unprovoked attacks on Jews after the Maccabi Tel Aviv war.
“The harrowing footage of this pogrom serves as a stark reminder of the persistent threat anti-Semitism poses to our communities,” the group said in a statement.
Authorities say additional police will be patrolling Amsterdam in the coming days, home to a large Jewish community and where Jewish World War II diarist Anne Frank was hiding from Nazi occupiers. announced that security would be strengthened at the Jewish facility in the city where the man and his family lived.
The violence continued despite Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema's ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations near soccer stadiums, fearing clashes between anti-Israel demonstrators and supporters of Israeli soccer clubs. It broke out.
