Nadene Goldfoot
On November 6th Donald Trump was re-elected President for the next 4 years. Of shades of things to come, this reported event happened in Amsterdam, Holland that a soccer game was being played by an Israeli team against a Dutch team and an anti-Semitic riot started by Arabs and then others.
Netanyahu recalled that: “Tomorrow is the anniversary, 86 years ago, of Kristallnacht, when Jews on European soil were attacked for being Jews. This has now recurred,” referring to the events of November 9 and 10, 1938, a Nazi pogrom that marked a turning point in the escalating persecution of Jews that eventually led to the murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust.
Netanyahu's comments came as the first flight carrying Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans evacuated from Amsterdam after widespread violent attacks by mobs of anti-Israel rioters landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Friday afternoon, as the Foreign Ministry said that all Israelis in the Dutch capital had been accounted for. A number of the fans said they had been attacked or made to feel unwelcome long before the widespread and apparently organized attack in Amsterdam on Thursday night following a game against Ajax. Historically, Ajax (named after the legendary Greek hero) is the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 36 Eredivisie titles and 20 KNVB Cups. There are about 6 million Jews that make up Israel. Holland has 17.88 million as of 2023.
Dutch news tells us this much: Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday. Five people were treated at hospitals and dozens were arrested after the attacks, which were condemned as antiSemitic by authorities in Amsterdam, Israel and across Europe.
Reports of antisemitic speech, vandalism and violence have been on the rise across Europe since the start of the war in Gaza, and tensions mounted in the Dutch capital ahead of Thursday night’s Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Amsterdam authorities banned pro-Palestinian demonstrators from gathering outside the stadium, and video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans on their way to the game. Afterward, youths on scooters and on foot crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli fans, punching and kicking them and then fleeing quickly to evade police, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.
On the social media platform Telegram, “there is talk of people going on a Jew hunt,” Halsema said. “That is so shocking and so despicable that I still cannot fathom it.” Dutch Minister of Justice and Security David van Weel vowed to track down and prosecute all of the perpetrators.
As I heard more on TV7 this morning through Youtube, 12 Israelis were injured; Holland is a NATO ally-with USA, and it still happened, so one can see how much anti-Semitism still exists here. As part of the Arab contingent who caused most of the attack on Jews, they were seen originally starting things off by burning Israeli flags. They had been an organized group, backed by Iran's money.
Maya Levin for NPR
(the "Night of Broken Glass"). or Kristallnacht, Dortmund, Germany, November 1938, the remains of a synagogue
It brings to mind another attack in Germany of Kristallnacht, 86 years ago when Jews were selected for attack by the general public's administration and suffered death as well as bodily injury and their businesses and synagogues because of anti-Semitism gone wild. 91 Jews were killed, 30,000 were arrested and 267 synagogues were destroyed. My uncle's father, a veteran of WWI, who was Jewish, was forced to scrub the street with a toothbrush. No Jew was left not scarred in some way, no doubt with PTSD as well from this experience.
The Jews had sailed from Recife on the ship Valck, one of at least sixteen that left mostly bound for the Netherlands at the end of the Dutch–Portuguese War. Valck was blown off course to Jamaica and/or Cuba. They suffered from anti-Semitism.
To me, it's extra sad that this first attack comes from Holland, because it is the first country in the world to defend Jews trying to land in New Amsterdam, which became New York. This event happened in the mid-1600s, specifically around 1654, when a group of Jewish refugees from Brazil arrived in New Amsterdam on a ship called the "St. Catherine" and were initially denied entry by the Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, who held anti-Semitic views; however, the Dutch West India Company later overruled him and allowed the Jews to settle in the colony, being the company was comprised of several Jewish men and the company was keeping New Amsterdam afloat financially.
While some Dutch people did risk their lives to protect Jews during World War II by hiding them in their homes, the Netherlands as a whole did not effectively protect its Jewish population under Nazi occupation, leading to the tragic deportation of a large majority of Dutch Jews to concentration camps, with only a small percentage surviving; this is considered one of the highest rates of Jewish casualties in Western Europe during the Holocaust. Despite some resistance efforts, a large portion of the Dutch Jewish population (around 75%) were deported and murdered in Nazi concentration camps due to the efficient organization of the German occupation forces and cooperation from some Dutch authorities.
Be it as it may, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank takes place in Amsterdam, Netherlands: This is her last picture taken in 1939. Anne (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) at age 10. She died at age 16.
Anne Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam from Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power and made life difficult for Jews. The Franks were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps, where only Anne's father survived. Anne Frank's diary is one of the most widely read works of nonfiction in the world and has been translated into nearly 70 languages.
Match ends, Ajax 5, Maccabi Tel Aviv 0.
Resource:
Edit: 11/8/2024; 3:09pm ; hard to find score.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/9-november-1938-kristallnacht-2/
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