Pogrom in the Netherlands in 2024: Chronicle of an attack foretold

The pogrom that took place recently in Amsterdam, Netherlands against Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, following their club's UEFA Europa League group stage match against Ajax, has generated a great deal of outrage. However, it is hardly surprising.

The rise of antisemitism in Europe is a direct consequence of the uncontrolled immigration of people from Middle Eastern countries and an increasingly radicalized left wing, which refuses to accept that their current Islamist allies are using them to go after them as well, since their hatred for Jews is no greater than their hatred for the West in general or wokism. But they are taking it one step at a time.

Tolerance of the intolerant means that in Europe in 2024, especially in the West and in Scandinavia, it will begin to feel like Europe back in 1938 again, but this time with the excuse of antizionism and Free Palestine.

The fact that it is recommended in many places in Europe not to wander around showing Jewish identity merits a rethinking of the policies that have been implemented on the Old Continent, i.e., the authorities must recognize that they did everything wrong and drastically change course.

The worrying rise of antisemitism in the Netherlands

The persecution of Jews in the Netherlands even reached the Knéset (the Israeli Parliament), when Dr. Raheli Baratz, head of the Department for Combating Antisemitism and Enhancing Resilience of the World Zionist Organization, presented a report to Israel's legislative body in November 2023, in which she revealed that antisemitic incidents in the European country had increased by 813% compared to 2022.

The Israeli newspaper Ynet noted that several serious antisemitic incidents have been reported in the Netherlands in recent months, which included: the desecration of a synagogue in Midelburg in February of this year, the throwing of a burning object at the Israeli embassy in The Hague in March of this year, the attack on an Orthodox rabbi in a shopping mall in Utrecht in April, the harassment of Israeli citizens at Schiphol Airport, and the desecration of the memorial site at the Westerbork Nazi concentration camp that same month.

Another case was that of a Jewish woman in Amsterdam, who was harassed and attacked last March by three women because her daughter is part of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The citizen's personal data was disclosed by a group of violent individuals, which is a violation of Dutch law. However, the legal response to this action was weak.

However, instead of repudiating the facts and showing solidarity with local Jews and Israelis, the response in the academic institutions of the Netherlands went in the opposite direction.

The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam severed ties with Israeli institutions and classes on the Holocaust were canceled at academic institutions in the Netherlands.

Ynet further revealed that on university campuses in the European country there have been cases of serious violence against Jewish students and Israel sympathizers, such as assaults with wooden sticks and chairs, among others.

These attacks are surely a consequence of the antisemitism promoted by the Students for Justice in Palestine organization.

The cowardly attitude of academic institutions, which believe that by submitting to the violent whims of a group of savages they will succeed in preventing attacks, is precisely the problem. The war Israel is waging against terrorism on several fronts shows that the solution lies in confronting them, not kneeling before them. Otherwise, the Jewish state would have disappeared in an instant.

Antisemitism is "becoming the norm" in the Netherlands

The Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands Binyomin Jacobs said that the recent serious episodes of antisemitic violence are the outbreak of something that had already been brewing. He added that since October 7, antisemitism has been steadily increasing in the country and is already "becoming the norm."

"When I walk down the street, it is already normal to be shouted at me 'liberate Palestine.' The whole problem starts here with education: local children grow up from an early age believing that Jews are a problem. Is it any wonder that antisemitism continues to grow?" concluded Rabbi Jacobs.

It's not just Jews in the crosshairs

The Netherlands, like other nations in Europe such as France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, and Germany, among others, has allowed the Islamist cancer, propped up by the radical left, to spread, gradually destroying its culture, its customs and the freedom it used to enjoy and for which so much blood was shed.

However, history is repeating itself in Europe, and whoever believes that the Jews are the only ones being targeted is mistaken. The Old Continent has two alternatives: to continue along the cowardly path that leads to slow and painful suicide, or to change course abruptly and drastically. The silent majorities have begun to speak with their vote; it is not time to go backwards and postpone the problem, since history has shown that this only aggravates it; it is time to step on the accelerator.