Shabbat shalom.
This morning, I am mourning. And the gathering gloom, is getting even gloomier. I woke up to the news of a pogrom in Amsterdam. This is a developing news story, but the headlines from CNN are as follows:
Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in Amsterdam overnight, which the Dutch government condemned Friday as antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens.
Dutch police said they had launched a major investigation into multiple violent incidents following the Europa League soccer game Thursday night between Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch side Ajax. Police said that so far, “five people have been taken to the hospital and 62 individuals have been arrested.”
Hundreds of Maccabi fans “were ambushed and attacked in Amsterdam,” the Israeli embassy to the United States said on social media platform X. At least 10 Israeli citizens were injured, according to Israel’s foreign ministry.
Social media video shared by the Israeli embassy showed what it said was violence against Maccabi fans. One video shows a man being kicked while he lies on the ground, while another video shows a man being hit by a man yelling “free Palestine” and “for the children, motherf***er.”
Many liberal minded people have been stewing in their post-election depression juices after Tuesday’s haymaker delivered a near knock-out blow to their political and moral world view. Then we get a Dutch gut punch, a pogrom, a blow that lands more like an upper cut squarely on our post October 7 chins. Bibi sends planes to evacuate and save Israeli citizens from the onslaught. And the world keeps spinning. Anti-semitism is out of control.
Here is what my favorite angry Jew, Eve Barlow, had to say about the news from Amsterdam:
I feel like it’s October 7 again.
Right now, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, 3,000 Jews are being actively hunted down, beaten and lynched in the street by Muslim migrants in Amsterdam, the city Anne Frank hid in with her family during the Nazi era, in an attempted mass murder. Two people are missing. The onslaught has been going on for the last seven hours. It reportedly took at least 90 minutes for authorities to respond, and the terrorists remain at large with knives and bats, and cars that they’re using to ram Jewish football fans down. Tonight at a local stadium in Amsterdam, many football fans were gathered to watch the Maccabi Tel Aviv team play Amsterdam’s Ajax and when they were preparing to leave the stadium after the match, Muslim terrorists were waiting for them at every exit, and at their hotels, which they knew they were staying in. Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF have ordered for two airplanes, currently in flight, to Amsterdam to take the Jewish soccer fans back to safety in the only country in the world in which Jewish people are safe: Israel.
Once again, there is no context to explain or excuse this behavior. Amsterdam, and the world, must turn their focus on and do something about the evil and hate that jihadists are fermenting and exporting all around the world. Instead of pressuring Israel to “not win a war” that they never wanted, the Biden administration, or the Trump administration, needs to put massive pressure on Iran to stop their proxies or pay a price. If we truly are the superpower and guardians of the globe, why haven’t we confronted Iran with a bigger stick: stop the nonsense or we will bomb the living shit out of your mullahs, the IRG and anything resembling a military asset? The Iranian people would celebrate such a move, and lead quickly to a regime change. We cannot wait any longer. I personally don’t feel threatened sitting coonfortably here in my Jewy suburban town, but it is plainly clear that our people are increasingly under threat here in the US and around the world. The time to act is now, before it is too late.
Please be careful out there.
Brad out.
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