Friday, November 08, 2024

11/08 Links Pt1: Amsterdam shows how bad things are. But this time we have Israel; The Mossad warned of a threat in the Netherlands ahead of the pogrom

From Ian:

Amsterdam ‘Pogrom’: five in hospital, 62 arrested, police say
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at about 4:30 a.m. local time that he was dispatching two rescue planes to Amsterdam following a “very violent incident against Israeli citizens.”

“The harsh pictures of the assault on our citizens in Amsterdam will not be overlooked,” Netanyahu’s office stated, adding that he “views the horrifying incident with utmost gravity and demands that the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters, and ensure the safety of our citizens.”

Amsterdam police told JNS that “several reports about last night’s events in Amsterdam are circulating on social media.”

“The police have launched a major investigation into multiple violent incidents,” the department told JNS. “So far, it is known that five people have been taken to the hospital and 62 individuals have been arrested.”

“The police are aware of reports regarding a possible hostage situation and missing persons, but currently have no confirmation that this actually took place,” it added. “This aspect is also under investigation.”

The department added that there was to be a noon press conference at Amsterdam City Hall.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry initially said that there has not been contact with three Israelis in Amsterdam. It later said everyone was accounted for.

The Israeli National Security Council stated in Hebrew that Israelis in Amsterdam should remain in their hotel rooms and avoid the street, refrain from wearing visible Jewish or Israeli symbols and notify Dutch police and the Israeli mission about any threat or attack. The council also advised Israelis to return to home, with more planes expected.

Earlier in the day, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost 5-0 to Ajax Amsterdam in a Europa League game. Various reports indicated that Israeli fans were attacked—with some reports of injuries—after leaving the game.

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that “we failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again,” per an Israeli readout of the call.

Earlier in the day, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof spoke with Herzog and Netanyahu. Schoof wrote that he was “horrified by the antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens. This is completely unacceptable.”

“The perpetrators will be identified and prosecuted. The situation in Amsterdam is now calm once more,” he wrote.
Amsterdam shows how bad things are. But this time we have Israel
Waking up to the news that Israeli football fans were attacked last night on the streets of Amsterdam I felt sick. Properly, physically sick.

It’s strange, because I’m used to starting my day doom scrolling through Instagram, my feed filled with the latest updates on the plague of antisemitism that’s currently sweeping the globe. But this felt different. And it was.

People are calling it a pogrom. Does that feel extreme? I mean, BH there have been no confirmed deaths yet (although as I write, two Israelis are still unaccounted for). [UPDATE: Everyone has now been accounted for.] There were no rapes. Nothing seems to have been set on fire. I don’t want to give in to the hysteria and add to the distortion of terms such as this, so I’ve looked it up to try and make an informed decision. According to the Holocaust Encyclopaedia: “Pogrom is a Russian word meaning ‘to wreak havoc, to demolish violently’. Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.” I guess I have to agree that, by that definition, it sounds about right. The Board of Deputies concurs. In a statement this morning they said: “Some have likened the situation there to a ‘pogrom’. On the basis of reports we have seen so far, it is hard to disagree.”

The echoes of our past are hard to face – for those of us who know it. Unfortunately, most of the gentile population don’t, so aren’t confronted by the uncanny vision of some of the worst moments of our history repeating in real time. The people and the chants may be different, but the streets and the violence are exactly the same.

One of the elements I’ve found most chilling has been the reports of how the Israeli fans were abandoned by the local authorities. One victim is quoted as saying: “We were all alone. I saw people on the floor, the police didn’t do anything to help us, police cars just drove by and saw it happening and did nothing.” Again, this is disturbingly reminiscent of pogroms’ past. Quoting the definition from the Holocaust Encyclopaedia again, it says: “The perpetrators of pogroms organised locally, sometimes with government and police encouragement.”

Offering an explanation for this, one social media news feed claims that “a large part of the police force in Amsterdam are 2nd-generation migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.” For those who’d like to believe this isn’t the source of the problem (wouldn’t we all), it shared a link to an article in the Jerusalem Post, written just last month, with the headline: Dutch police refuse to guard Jewish sites over 'moral dilemmas,' officers say. The article reports on statements made by Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, representing the Dutch Jewish Police Network, on anti-Jewish prejudice in the force. “There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas,’ and I see a tendency emerging to give in to that. That would truly mark the beginning of the end. I’m concerned about that,” Theeboom told Nieuw Israëlisch Weekblad.

The piece goes on: “The officers later spoke with De Telegraaf, where they said that some members of the police expressed they didn’t want to be deployed at the Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and refused food and drinks from the venue.” Once again, it seems to be a case of “same same, but different”. As with the pogroms of the 19th century, in Amsterdam in 2024 the people attacking Jews and the authorities who should be protecting them are cut from the same cloth.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Pogrom in Amsterdam
I well remember when I was reliant on Dutch police protection to ensure that I did not suffer the same fate as my friend Theo van Gogh, who had been stabbed to death by a jihadist in the streets of Amsterdam. One day, one of the agents assigned to my security detail turned out to be of Turkish descent. I became uneasy when he began to criticize me for my work with van Gogh on “Submission,” a film about the treatment of women under Islam. When I expressed my concerns, I was told by his superior officer that it was not up to me who was given the task of protecting me. I was required to learn a new kind of submission—to the dictates of the DEI bureaucracy.

Today, a large part of the police force in Amsterdam is made up of second-generation migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Since October 7 last year, some officers have already refused to guard Jewish locations such as the Holocaust Museum.

Women and gays in Amsterdam have also felt their world change and shrink. However, it is the Jewish community of Amsterdam who have had to learn to survive in this new environment.

Yesterday night’s pogrom was thus the opposite of a black swan. Such an event was foreseeable long ago. Twenty years ago, I watched as the Dutch authorities caved in to almost every Islamist demand. Muslim students disrupted or walked out of classes on the history of the Holocaust, so the classes were eliminated from their curriculum. Jews and gays were attacked and beaten in the streets of Amsterdam, so—after a series of platitudes about “unacceptable behavior”—the victims were told not to appear so gay or Jewish in future.

More recently, in one of those ironies that would require an Evelyn Waugh to do full justice, the Anne Frank House, a museum established to commemorate the Holocaust, was made to include Islamophobia as many of the hatreds it is now repurposed to combat.

No doubt Amsterdam today can boast the highest share of minorities employed in government and security agencies. But, as a consequence, those agencies cannot guarantee the safety of Jews.

The globalization of the Intifida is progressing rapidly when, in the year 2024, we are called to witness a pogrom in the city of Baruch Spinoza and Anne Frank.


Stephen Pollard: The only issue has been when and where the first mob attack on Jews would happen
I’ve just been listening to the news. The report on last night’s events in Amsterdam included an explanation of the meaning of the word ‘pogrom’. Because that’s where we now are. In 2024, in the middle of a European capital city, pogroms are back.

Not that anyone, surely, is surprised. The only issue in the past year has been when and where the first large scale mob attack on Jews would happen. (Although it was nothing of the sort according to Sky News, which this morning told us that “football hooligans target Israeli supporters as disorder unfolds”. Nothing to see here, move along.)

There were, it’s clear, racist chants from some Maccabi fans in Amsterdam. But if your response to that is to believe it’s therefore fine to have a pogrom against Jews in response, then you are part of the problem.

One of the most obvious lessons from history is that when verbal and written Jew hate is normalised, violence always follows. Always.

And it is somehow appropriate, albeit grotesquely so, that the first European pogrom of 2024 (last October an antisemitic mob stormed an airport in Dagestan airport hunting for Jews after a plane landed from Tel Aviv) should be in the country that houses the ICC and the ICJ, which are seeking to punish the Jewish state for having the temerity to defend itself against the mass slaughter of Jews.

It was Amsterdam yesterday. Where next? Take your pick from anywhere where the authorities and politicians offer the trite incantation “Never again”. It’s become one of the golden rules of the public square that those two words (which really mean “Always again: here, now”) are only ever uttered after assorted Jew haters have been given licence to spread their poison more or less as they see fit. And before the same Jew haters are allowed to spread the same poison again.

Here in the UK the police do next to nothing as tens of thousands are allowed their regular Jew hate-fest, marching alongside openly antisemitic banners and chanting Jew hate slogans. Indeed, it seems as if more often or not it is those who expose the antisemites whose collar is felt, rather than the Jew haters, who are treated as if they are performing some sort of revered democratic ritual when they march with their “anti-Zionist” (is there anyone who still falls for that one?) banners.

It is all of a piece. Hate preachers are allowed to enter and roam the country at will. The odd one or two are banned, but it’s like pushing water uphill, so blasé are the authorities about who is actually let in. They are welcomed on campus and into mosques as if they are prized visitors of whose presence we should be proud as a nation.

“Globalise the intifada”, they all demand. Well, it is indeed globalised – and last night’s pogrom was just one form of that globalisation. More – and, I am sure, worse – is coming, because it always does when the authorities let it. All of the past year’s acceleration in Jew hate has been entirely predictable. As is what comes next.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans targeted in Amsterdam stabbings, car ramming after soccer match
At least 10 Israelis were injured, and two remain out of contact after Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans were violently chased and attacked after attending the match in Amsterdam Thursday night against Ajax. In videos on social networks, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are seen being attacked in several locations in the city. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered planes sent to evacuate Israelis in the Netherlands

"They attacked fans, it looked like it was planned," said one of the fans. Ajax won the match 5-0.

In several videos posted on social media, masked were seen trying to break into hotels where Israelis were staying. Dutch media reported clashes in several locations throughout the city, and the police were trying to control the violence.

Police reportedly helped escort dozens of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans who were attacked. "Several dozen people dressed in black attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and several people were arrested," according to local police.

About 30 attackers have been arrested so far, according to the foreign ministry, citing information provided by local police.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was briefed on the details of the serious incident of violence in Amsterdam against Israeli citizens, conducted a situation assessment with the Foreign Minister and his military secretary, and receives regular updates all the time, according to a statement early Friday morning from the Prime Minister's Office.

A 30-year-old Maccabi Tel Aviv fan describes the moments of horror: "I finished a four-month reserve in Gaza, and what I experienced here is no less scary. There is a war out here. They ran over me and pulled a knife on me. I am slightly injured, but I am not ready to receive treatment here, only in Israel. We were ambushed. I'm in the market. I saw with my own eyes children who were caught in explosions. They are everywhere. No police, complete chaos. Everything was pre-planned. The police here abandoned us. Every fourth person walking the street is a Muslim who has come to attack Jews. Me and several hundred other fans are surrounded in the hotel, the police don't allow us to leave. They just want to fly home."

Another fan, Yarin Hay Itzhak, posted about his experiences on X.

"It's unbelievable that we had to run away from thousands of Muslims on the streets of Amsterdam and get some Israelis into KFC when the police are out there in small numbers and don't know how to handle the event. They didn't bring a doctor to everyone who was injured there because 'there is no way to help you.' The Muslims tried to run over, kidnap, beat and murder. Everyone who is there, catch a flight and return to Israel."

Kobi Itzhaki posted on X: "Running away to the hotel, bringing the wounded in with you, hearing about people who can't find them, hearing crazy explosions from all sides. Fuck football, just let everyone return safely from here."

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a statement: "We are dealing with the authorities in the Netherlands over the serious incidents there. Any Israeli or Jew who is currently in distress or has information and about a violent event that is currently taking place, please contact the situation room:
'50 Arabs were waiting for us with knives and clubs,' say Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam
Violent clashes erupted overnight Thursday in Amsterdam ahead of the Europa League match between Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch giants Ajax, as tensions rose after footage surfaced of a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan tearing down a Palestinian flag from a city window.

In one incident, Dutch nationals of Turkish descent reportedly chased a Maccabi fan after apparently stealing his passport and proceeded to push him into a river. Maccabi officials said they were aware of the incident, and the fan was confirmed to be unharmed. The attackers posted an image of his passport on social media, revealing a photo suggesting his past service in the military.

In another incident, Dutch citizens of Turkish and Moroccan descent gathered outside an Amsterdam casino, waiting for Maccabi fans. Around 1:30 a.m., two fans entered the casino with visible injuries and blood on their faces.

Security immediately locked down the casino and instructed the Israelis to head downstairs as about 50 people, reportedly armed with knives and sticks, were waiting outside. “About half an hour later, around seven police vehicles arrived,” one witness said. "The police began escorting us out in small groups through an alternate route to avoid the attackers. They didn’t have a clear solution—just told us, ‘Go away and hope everything will be fine.’”

“We left in tiny groups. The whole situation was surreal. The city is filled with Palestinian flags, and nearly every taxi driver is Arab. If they realize you’re Israeli, there’s a lot of hostility,” shared Or Shponder, a fan currently in Amsterdam. The initial unrest reportedly began when an Arab taxi driver claimed he was attacked, prompting many of the disturbances that followed, largely instigated by taxi drivers of Arab descent.
The Mossad warned of a threat in the Netherlands ahead of the pogrom - report
The Mossad reportedly warned of a potential threat to Israelis and Jews in the Netherlands ahead of the soccer game, following which the pogrom ensued, KAN News reported Friday, citing a senior security official.

They reportedly sent a warning to security forces in Israel and the Netherlands, requesting an immediate and significant increase in security for Israelis near the soccer stadium.

The source also said that Israel's National Security Council received a single report regarding a targeted threat against an Israeli citizen, a former Border Police soldier.

The former soldier, according to the KAN report, came to the game in Amsterdam and was attacked by pro-Palestinian individuals and had his passport stolen. His personal details were posted on social media as a target for people to harm.

The Mossad issued a warning to security agencies in Israel and the Netherlands, requesting an immediate increase in security for Israelis attending the match and in the city, particularly for hotels housing fans, KAN reported.

However, at this stage, the National Security Agency had not been briefed on particular actions, and no public message was issued to Israelis.


Secret Israeli gov’t report exposes Dutch anti-Israel sentiment spiraling out of control
Beyond public advocacy and social media, this anti-Israel agenda has taken hold in legal channels. Haroon Raza, a lawyer with the "March 30 Movement," has leveraged the Dutch legal system to target Israeli officials with lawsuits alleging war crimes and human rights abuses.

In March 2023, Raza’s organization filed a request for the arrest of Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his visit to Amsterdam, accusing him of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.” These legal actions, though often symbolic, reveal a broader strategy of weaponizing international law to isolate Israeli leaders and delegitimize the nation on a global stage.

Social media has proven a particularly powerful tool for these activists. Platforms like Instagram and Twitter have enabled figures like Nieuweboer and Hofland to amplify anti-Israel messages widely, often bypassing censorship with covert symbols like the watermelon, which resembles the Palestinian flag.

This tactic has embedded anti-Israel narratives into Dutch digital spaces, reaching audiences far beyond traditional activism circles and making these views mainstream. The Ministry’s report warns that without accountability, social media platforms risk becoming breeding grounds for extremism, where such narratives are normalized and allowed to spread unchecked.

Perhaps most troubling is the Dutch government’s muted response to these activities. By framing anti-Israel sentiment as “human rights advocacy,” the authorities have allowed this movement to flourish unchecked. The Ministry’s report, obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, highlights how this lack of accountability has led to an atmosphere where antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric are tolerated and even normalized.

The report closes with a stark warning: “The accumulation of activities leads to one goal—harming the State of Israel on the international level.” Despite this clear trajectory, Dutch authorities appear reluctant to intervene, allowing activists to exploit public spaces, legal systems, and social media to intensify their campaigns.

Friday's incident in Amsterdam is a tragic consequence of allowing such hatred to go unchecked. When pro-Hamas voices dominate public discourse, legal systems are used to target Israel, and extremists are permitted to spread their narratives under the guise of free expression, hostility inevitably turns to violence.

The violence against Israeli fans was not a spontaneous outburst; it was the culmination of a society where anti-Israel sentiments have been cultivated and tolerated for years.

The Netherlands now stands at a critical juncture. Will its leaders choose to defend the values of tolerance and justice that the nation upholds, or will they allow anti-Israel extremism to continue eroding these principles? The writing has been on the wall, and the time for decisive action is now.
After the Amsterdam pogrom, we Dutch must toughen up
Following the abhorrent pogrom by rioters in Amsterdam, I have been asked from all over the world: “What the hell is happening in your country – and in your capital, Amsterdam?”

Unfortunately, the answer is quite simple. On the very anniversary of the Kristallnacht, this pogrom is the latest and most appalling in a long series of anti-Israel and antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands, particularly in Amsterdam.

For many years, religious Jews in my country have been wary of wearing their kippot in public, with antisemitic incidents on the rise. But since the Hamas massacre of October 7 and the subsequent Gaza war, a toxic mixture of pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel and outright antisemitic public manifestations has been showing up on the streets, squares and railway stations of our major cities.

In March, the solemn ceremony at the opening of our Holocaust Museum was defiled by pro-Hamas demonstrations. On October 7 this year, a memorial demonstration was disrupted. Throughout the last year, Dutch universities have seen more than their fair share of the worldwide anti-Israel and antisemitic face-masked movement.

What will now be known as the November 7 pogrom took place in a city with a black World War II history. During the Nazi occupation, 75 percent of the nearly 80,000 Jews in Amsterdam were murdered in the concentration camps. It was the collaborating Amsterdam police that took Anne Frank from her hiding place.

Compared with other occupied countries, the record of the Netherlands was awful. In this historical context, many of the 40,000-50,000 Jews in my country today are reliving the darkest years in Dutch Jewish history and feel that their safety and security is severely compromised.

The Dutch authorities do condemn antisemitism in the strongest possible terms. But so far they been have unwilling to counter the aggressive amalgam of pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas and anti-Jewish activists. They take the apparent moral high ground by hiding behind the constitutional right to demonstrate, stretching to the limit their toleration of anti-Jewish signs and symbols.

They are hesitant to upset the nearly one million Muslims in the Netherlands who in large part are fiercely anti-Israel, pro-Palestine and, to a smaller extent, consider Hamas and Hezbollah to be just honourable freedom fighters.

Saying this is taboo. The fact that the crime scene of last night was dominated by Moroccan and Turkish men is widely known, but the police and the public prosecutor do not publish the ethnic background of suspects.
Arsen Ostrovsky: They are hunting Jews in Amsterdam. Canada could be next
The horrific scenes witnessed on the streets of Amsterdam Thursday night, in which Jews and Israelis were hunted down and assaulted with such vicious, unbridled violence, is reminiscent of the darkest times in Europe’s history.

It is also a crying call to Canada, that unless the government wakes up and gets its act together, it is only a matter of time before we see a modern-day pogrom here as well.

Last night’s rampage in Amsterdam, in which mobs of pro-Palestinian youth, new migrants, and radical Islamists attempted to lynch Israeli soccer fans on the street, threw others in the river while forcing them to shout “Free Palestine,” and went door-to-door, hotel-to-hotel searching for Jews, did not occur in a vacuum. It was the direct result of several factors.

In the last year, after the October 7 attacks, there was an unprecedented 245 per cent surge in antisemitism in the Netherlands. Yet, despite the periodic denunciations, Dutch authorities failed to take any meaningful action.

In fact, barely a month ago, it was revealed that some Dutch police had refused to guard Jewish sites, including the Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, over purported “moral dilemmas” related to the war in Gaza.

Europe has also seen a pervasive discourse following the October 7 massacre, where the role of victim and oppressor has been inverted. Today, Israel is being viscerally demonized and vilified, while Hamas’s savagery is being whitewashed or excused, indoctrinating hate and instilling a worldview justifying such gruesome violence.

Where we hear calls to “Globalize the Intifada” or “Free Palestine,” it is not a call for peace, but clear and unmistakable incitement to violence, like we saw in Amsterdam, where Jews are no longer safe.

In the meantime, whilst it maybe unpalatable for some to still admit, the plain truth is that an unchecked, open migration policy from some Muslim countries where it is widespread and systematic for individuals to have extremist views, has had a direct correlation on the increase in violence, thuggery and incitement.
Europe’s Jews: Canaries in the Civilizational Coal Mine
Twenty years ago this month, a Dutch Islamist named Mohamed Bouyeri slaughtered filmmaker and prominent Islam critic Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam. The second-generation Dutch-born Moroccan shot the older provocateur several times, then slit his throat. Bouyeri, now serving a life sentence, said he did it for Allah. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Muslim apostate and friend of Van Gogh’s, had to go into hiding for her life after Bouyeri threatened to kill her too.

If you publicly criticized Islam, it wasn’t safe for you to walk on the streets of Amsterdam in 2004. Things have changed since then. As we saw on Thursday night, now all it takes to get you ambushed by violent Muslims in Amsterdam is to be a fan of an Israeli football team. Well, the Netherlands always has prided itself on ‘progress.’

Sarcasm aside, the shocking pogrom that raged on Amsterdam’s streets after a football match between the Dutch team Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv reveal, to the surprise of no European conservative, that the Dutch authorities have learned nothing from events this century.

The Netherlands’ ruling class and their institutions have always considered right-wing politician Geert Wilders, a strong critic of mass migration, to be a greater threat to the country’s well-being than the large numbers of Muslim migrants and their offspring that live in what is traditionally one Europe’s most peaceful, liberal states.

A year ago, Wilders’ party gained a plurality in national elections, but could not immediately form a government, as tradition would have dictated, because few parties would work with the populist and Islam critic (who also must live under constant heavy security, lest he be culturally enriched at the point of a Dutch migrant’s knife). Wilders was finally able to form a government, but only after making significant concessions to coalition partners who promised to neuter his more “radical” proposals.

Meanwhile, last month, it was reported that some Dutch police are refusing to guard Jewish sites, such as the national Holocaust Museum:
A pogrom in Amsterdam
Deborah Lipstadt, currently the US special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, is in no doubt as to the significance of what happened last night. It was a concerted and violent attack on Jews because they were Jews. It was all too reminiscent of ‘a classic pogrom’, she said, before drawing attention to the attacks’ proximity to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, ‘when Nazi-sanctioned and Nazi-led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich’. Striking a similar note, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told Israel’s President Isaac Herzog: ‘We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and last night we failed again.’

It was all so grimly predictable. Ever since Hamas’s 7 October attacks and the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, anti-Semitism has surged across Europe. Synagogues have been fire-bombed. Jews have been menaced and attacked. And the streets of Western cities have been filled on a near-weekly basis with anti-Israel marches, thronging with anti-Semitism. It was these conditions that made an attack on Israeli Jewish football fans all too possible.

Grimly predictable, too, has been the sly excuse-making for what happened last night. The BBC has reported that Maccabi fans have a reputation for offensive chanting. There have also been reports that they burned a Palestine flag before the game, and didn’t adhere to the minutes’ silence for those who lost their lives in the Valencian floods – a pearl-clutching response that would be easier to take seriously if anti-Israel protesters hadn’t been engaging in far worse for the best part of a year. Nevertheless, the point of this blame-shifting is clear enough. It was the Maccabi fans’ own fault. That seems to be the message. These Israeli football fans brought the violence down on themselves. These Jews deserved it.

Those surreptitiously justifying last night’s pogrom are almost as bad as its perpetrators. Enough with the excuses and deflections. We need to face up to the rampant anti-Semitism now thriving in Europe. Before it’s too late.
Hunted in Amsterdam
You might wonder where the Dutch police were in all this. That’s an excellent question. Last month the Jerusalem Post reported that Dutch police were refusing to guard Jewish sites over ‘moral dilemmas’ . Presumably the Dutch police experienced those same ‘moral dilemmas’ in 1940s when the German occupation forces rounded up more than 100,000 Jews and sent them to their deaths in the gas chambers.

Again, forgive me for the bitterness which I know is coming across here. We are, after all, talking about Amsterdam, the place where when the few Jews who had survived the Holocaust returned, found that the city authorities expected them to pay back taxes on the properties which had been seized from them when they were deported to the Death Camps .

I don’t know where this is going for Jewish people. But I do know that in the last 13 months, taboos have been continuously broken. For 78 years it was almost unthinkable in the western world for synagogues to be surrounded by mobs, or for the mass murder of Jews to be openly celebrated. That is no longer true.

Here in the UK, the organisation I work for, the Board of Deputies, will be speaking to UK police and Government over the coming hours and days to ensure there will be no similar behaviour here in the UK. We will also be engaging with the Dutch Embassy to ensure that they understand the gravity of what has occurred.

This is undoubtedly a dark period for us all. The Board of Deputies, together with other Jewish organisations in this country, will do all we can to prevent it becoming darker still.
Aviva Klompas: The Amsterdam Pogrom – with Dr. Michael Oren
Host Aviva Klompas and Dr. Michael Oren are discussing the harrowing events that unfolded in Amsterdam on the evening of November 7, when hundreds of Israeli soccer fans were targeted in a brutal act of antisemitic violence. The attack, which took place just two nights before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, feels like a chilling reminder of history repeating itself.

Aviva is joined by historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Oren, to explore the resurgence of violent antisemitism in Europe. Together, they explore the factors driving this troubling trend and examine whether these attacks will finally serve as a wake-up call for Europe—and the world—to address the escalation of antisemitic hatred.

Whether you’re concerned about the rise in antisemitism, drawn to historical parallels, or looking for ways to support Jewish communities under threat, this episode offers valuable insights and a powerful call to action.

Key Topics Covered:
-A review of the attacks on Jews in Amsterdam and their disturbing timing before Kristallnacht’s anniversary.
- With his deep knowledge of history, Dr. Oren reflects on the parallels between this attack and past antisemitic violence, exploring how history can seem to come full circle if left unchecked.
- We discuss Israel’s swift announcement to send planes to bring Israelis home and how this response embodies Israel’s commitment to protect Jews worldwide.
-What Jewish communities need to hear to foster resilience in the face of mounting threats.


John Podhoretz: Pogrom 2024
Early Friday morning in Amsterdam, in the shadow of the house in which Anne Frank hid and where her family was betrayed, rampaging mobs of Muslim men targeted Israeli attendees of a soccer match featuring the Maccabi team. They beat up men and women. They broke into buildings searching for Israelis to attack. They assaulted at least one child. For hours, the streets were not clear of them, as the authorities in the Dutch city had no clue what to do or how to engage. The mobs had been prepositioned at stadium exits, subway station entrances, and near and around the hotels at which Israelis who had come to town to support their team were staying. This was a pre-planned attack. We are mere days away from the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the day when Jews and Jewish businesses were specifically targeted for arrest, injury, and destruction. We’ve only ever really seen still photographs of the damage. You want to know what Kristallnacht was like? Go to Twitter and watch the videos, taken by the GoPro cameras of the goons, and you’ll get some flavor of what the word “pogrom” means. We have just seen the first unambiguous pogrom after October 7.

Now go to the home page of the New York Times. Go to the home page of the Washington Post. Go to CNN. Go. See where they have placed this story. It is two screens down, in smaller type. Now, fair is fair—it happened in the evening and these organizations no longer have things like Amsterdam bureaus. So this is a rare moment to thank God for the existence of social media; without X the world would not have known that the horror was upon us.

But as it happens, I did, and for a very personal reason. A dear friend of mine, with whom I’ve shared a friends’ text chain for a decade, sounded the alarm because her 20 year old daughter was there—traveled to watch the game from another European city where she is studying abroad for the semester. The first word was this: “A is in Amsterdam. Was going to the Tel Aviv v Amsterdam soccer game. No, she didn’t tell me. Turns out the tickets weren’t working so they went to dinner. Tel Aviv won 5-0 and insanity broke out. The waiter had to use a crow bar to lock everyone inside the restaurant.”

A little later I asked her if she’d heard from her daughter. She replied: “She’s in a hotel. Which is a dorm. I haven’t heard from her in a bit. She didn’t answer her phone so I hope she’s just sleeping.” As I was reading this, I was watching a video of hooligans breaking into a hotel for the purpose of hunting down Israelis staying there. I did not mention this. I asked if she could see her daughter’s location on Find My Friends. She said, “I see her phone is working. She said she and her friend would stay in and watch movies..”

And my blood ran cold because as she was texting this, I was reading that there were at least three people who had fallen out of contact and whose families did not know where they were or what was happening.

Oh, and I knew that my friend’s father had himself survived the Holocaust in Poland from babyhood in the guise of a child of a Christian family. Finally she got the story from her daughter: “A said a van pulled up next to her and was asking her ‘something palestina’ like did she agree. She said she played dumb and ran back inside. Then there were these fake bomb sounds and everyone was sprinting. She said it was terrifying.” And she learned her daughter had been at the game but had left early because the entry tickets of some friends hadn’t worked and she went to meet them.

Then my friend said: “She’s like, should I not go to the Anne Frank house today?”
Commentary: Amsterdammerung
Eliana Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon joins the podcast as we address the horrifying news out of Amsterdam—a present-day pogrom that is taking place while anti-Semitic acts are happening across America during the same week and Israel continues to be threatened by Hezbollah and the Houthis. What connects this to the continuing fallout from the election? Immigration. And the question of who's going to be tough on Iran.
Mentioned: 2015: PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Great Synagogue of Paris
My dear brothers and sisters, I came here from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, to share in your pain over the murders of Francois-Michel, Philippe, Yoav and of Yohan, who bravely tried to grab the terrorist's gun and was fatally wounded. The memory of our four holy brothers will be forever engraved on the hearts of our people.

Unfortunately the people of Israel have experienced this pain. We have experienced it many times because we have been fighting against terror for many years, and like many in Israel, I am personally familiar with the wounds of terror as well as the agony of bereavement. As a soldier, I was wounded in an operation to free hostages who had been kidnapped on a Sabena airplane. My late brother, Yoni, was killed in Entebbe when rescuing the hostages kidnapped on an Air France airplane. For years, the best of our sons and daughters were killed in many terror attacks, and the finest of our fighters fell in heroic battles against terrorism, including just recently during Operation Protective Edge.

Today we bow our heads in memory of the victims in Paris. However, as representatives of an ancient and proud people, we stand tall against evil because we can overcome it. "The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread" – because truth and justice are on our side. And here is the truth: Our shared enemy is radical Islam, not Islam and not just radicals – radical Islam. This form of Islam has many names: ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, al-Shabab, Hezbollah; but they are all branches from the same poison tree.

Although the various factions of radical Islam are given to local bloody conflicts, including amongst themselves, they all share the same aspiration: To impose a dark tyranny on the world, to return humanity one thousand years to the past. They trample anyone who does not share their path, first and foremost their Muslim brothers, but their greatest hatred is saved for Western culture, that same culture that respects freedom and equal rights – all the things they so despise.

For this reason it is not a coincidence that radical Islam has sought to destroy Israel from the very day it declared its independence: Because Israel is the only Western democracy in the Middle East, because Israel is the only place that is truly safe for Christians, women, minorities, that respects all human rights.
2015: Obama ignites social media by calling Paris kosher deli attack 'random'
“If a guy goes into a kosher market and starts shooting it up, he’s not looking for Buddhists, is he?” the reporter asked State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.

US President Barack Obama came under attack this week, particularly in the news and on social media circles, after he appeared to have avoided characterizing as anti-Semitic the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris last month in which the only four victims killed were Jewish.

Questions first percolated after an Obama press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday. But it was his comment in an interview that he gave to Vox on Tuesday in which he said the attack was "random" that drew the most criticism.

"It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concern when you have a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shot a bunch of folks in a Deli in Paris."
Attack against Israel organisations was ‘echo of Kristallnacht’, says rabbi at commemoration service
A campaign of vandalism against a Jewish charity and an Israel-focused research centre in London had “echoes of Kristallnacht”, a rabbi leading the Association of Jewish Refugees’ (AJR) annual commemoration service has said.

Rabbi Gabriel Botnick told attendees at Belsize Square Synagogue that during the year following the October 7, the world had witnessed “vitriol from people who want to see Israel wiped from the map”.

Last Shabbat, protest group Palestine Action claimed responsibility after the headquarters of the independent Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom), and JNF UK were sprayed with red paint. They also stole a bust of Chaim Weizmann from Manchester University, which they later “beheaded”.

PA said they had taken action because Britain remained an "active participant in the colonisation, genocide and occupation of Palestine".

The Metropolitan police are treating both attacks as a hate crime.

Speaking at the AJR’s 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Rabbi Botnick said Jews could never be immune from hatred.

Despite that, he said, the Jewish people would always carry on.

Also speaking at the service was Manfred Goldberg, one of the last living witnesses to Kristallnacht.


Jewish people don’t feel their ‘safety is assured’ in Australia
Liberal Senator Dave Sharma says Jewish people don’t feel their “safety is assured” in Australia.

Mr Sharma told Sky News host Erin Molan that the antisemitism has led to Jews “not wearing their kippah”.

“Jewish people won’t come to the Sydney CBD or the Melbourne CBD on Sunday because of these almost weekly protests.”




The Israel Guys: CRAZY Anti-Semitism in Amsterdam (& Palestinians may be getting deported from Israel)
In one of the most horrific acts of anti-semitic violence the world has seen in recent times, dozens of Israeli-Jews were beaten, thrown into the river, run over by car, and at this moment, several are missing in Amsterdam - all for the crime of attending a soccer game in Europe.. Also this week, the Knesset passed a law enabling Israel to deport the family members of convicted terrorists if they knew about a terrorist attack ahead of time, and refused to report their relatives. As you can imagine, this has made Palestinian-Arabs raging mad…..and rightly so! After all, if your brother is about to mass murder people, you refuse to call the police, and then get deported, you’d be mad too, right?




Dutch officers refuse to protect Jewish sites over 'moral' concerns
A month before the violent riots targeting Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam, Dutch media exposed a troubling trend of local police officers refusing to safeguard Jewish and Israeli sites across the country.

The revelation first emerged in NIW (Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad), a prominent Jewish newspaper, which reported that a growing number of officers were claiming that protecting Jewish and Israeli sites presented them with a "moral dilemma" and "conscientious concerns."

Two veteran officers voiced their alarm about the police command's increasing tolerance of such refusals. "We have colleagues who are now declining to protect facilities or events linked to the community. They cite 'moral dilemmas,' and I'm witnessing a growing tendency to accommodate these objections. This truly marks the beginning of the end for us as a police force," Michael Theeboom, a local officer, told NIW.

"Our command appears increasingly hesitant to take a decisive stance on this matter, particularly since the outbreak of war in the Middle East. We're drastically departing from our collective responsibility; this requires continued open dialogue," Marcel de Weerd, another police officer, said.

The controversy gained national attention when De Telegraaf, a leading Dutch newspaper, picked up the story, with additional police sources expressing deep concern about growing extremism within the Dutch police force and widening divisions within the organization entrusted with public safety.

A report released six months ago by CIDI, the Netherlands' leading antisemitism monitoring organization, revealed that antisemitic incidents surged by 250% over the previous year, with 379 documented cases in 2023, up from 155 in 2022.

While authorities received more than 1,500 reports of antisemitic incidents, only 379 cases met the criteria for definitive classification as antisemitism. The 2023 figures represent the highest number of incidents recorded in the four decades since the organization began publishing its annual report.




German Jews should avoid Kristallnacht events to protest anti-Israel policies
The leadership of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, a state-subsidized organization, has largely accommodated the anti-Israel and pro-Islamic Republic of Iran policies of the country’s left-of-center coalition government.

To confront the worst German antisemitism scandal of this century—the Scholz government’s decision to impose an arms embargo on Israel during its seven-front war against Iran and its proxies—the 105 Jewish communities with their roughly 100,000 members should stay away from the November 9-10 Kristallnacht remembrance events with government officials.

There is a precedent for shunning Holocaust commemoration events because of pro-Iranian-regime policies in Europe. In 2010, this writer reported that Ariel Muzicant, the then-head of the Jewish Community of Vienna and the Jewish Communities of Austria, became the first major European Jewish leader to boycott such an event, because of the policies of the Austrian government.

Muzicant said his decision to stay away from the annual Mauthausen concentration camp memorial in the Austrian parliament constituted a “silent protest.”

He cited the then-Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger’s cordial welcome of then-Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki, a key speaker at the infamous 2006 Teheran Holocaust-denial conference. Muzicant has, however and unfortunately, mellowed and now serves as president of the European Jewish Congress.

Germany’s Green Party foreign minister Annalena Baerbock has worked overtime to endanger the security of Israel during its existential war since Hamas massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, 2023. Her weapons embargo against Israel may very well have contributed to Hamas and Hezbollah murders of Israeli soldiers and citizens.

She has also hosted antisemites and anti-Israel activists at least 11 times during the war, including for a special dinner at the foreign ministry. The German-Jewish activist Malca Goldstein-Wolf went as far as to urge the Simon Wiesenthal Center to list Baerbock on its list of the most severe outbreaks of Jew-hatred for 2024.

It is unclear why Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and the council’s executive director, Daniel Botmann, are passive actors in this hour of danger. Germany’s official Jewish community has not demanded that Berlin end diplomatic and trade relations with Tehran. The community has also not mobilized its members for a demonstration against the German government’s anti-Israel policies, including its endorsement of the ICC case to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some attribute the lack of a robust Zionist consciousness and action among Jewish leaders like Schuster and Botmann to a kind of dhimmitude psychology, where community leaders and many members are chock-full of servility toward the modern German state.


We failed Jews during football attacks as we did under Nazis, says Dutch king
The king of the Netherlands has said “we failed” the Jewish community as the country did “during World War Two” after Israeli football fans were ambushed, kicked and beaten on the streets of Amsterdam.

Israel sent two planes to rescue its citizens after the violence broke out in the aftermath of a Europa League match between Ajax Amsterdam and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night.

Police said five people were taken to hospital and 62 arrests made after a pro-Palestinian mob began attacking Israeli football fans around midnight.

Speaking to Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, King Willem-Alexander expressed “deep horror and shock”, saying: “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War Two, and last night we failed again.”

Three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered during the Second World War under Nazi occupation, with 100,000 transported to Germany.

Earlier, Mr Herzog had called the “shocking” scenes an “anti-Semitic pogrom” reminiscent of last year’s Hamas attacks on Israel.

Some fans were forced to leap into canals or hide in hotels to escape.

Rioters, some carrying knives and travelling on scooters, shouted slogans like “free Palestine” and “now you know how it feels”.

At least 25 Israelis were reportedly injured in the “hit and run” attacks that Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, called is a “black night and a dark day” for the city as she announced emergency powers would be given to police and security forces.

In a press conference on Friday, she condemned the “explosion of anti-Semitism” and said military police would be deployed on the streets while protests and face coverings would be banned this weekend.

In a press conference on Friday, she announced emergency powers for security forces and designated the city a “security risk” area, deploying 800 more officers and banning protests this weekend.

Saying there was evidence that the riots were organised online, she said: “I understand very well that this brings back the memory of pogroms.”

Peter Holla, Amsterdam’s chief of police, added that officers were aware of reports of hostage-taking, but saw no evidence of this happening.


Amsterdam mayor condemns ‘black night and dark day’ of attacks on Israeli football fans
Dutch police arrested 62 people and took five to hospital with injuries after Israeli supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team were attacked following the Europa League match against Ajax in Amsterdam Thursday night in what the mayor is calling a “hit and run” incident.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said during a press conference on Friday that the city is looking back at a "black night and a dark day” during which antisemitic "criminals" attacked Jewish visitors.

She said men on scooters were searching for Maccabi supporters last night and described the incident as “a hit and run”.

"It's against everything we're proud of in Amsterdam,” Halsema said. “I'm very ashamed of the behaviour that was shown last night. This is nothing like Amsterdam.”

According to police, supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv were “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” in several locations around the city, forcing authorities to intervene to protect Israeli supporters and escort them back to their hotels.

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla said trouble began as early as Wednesday, when Maccabi supporters attacked a taxi and set a Palestinian flag on fire.

He added that after the match on Thursday evening, Maccabi supporters were walking through the city centre when "rioters" carried out "hit-and-run" attacks targeting at the Israeli supporters.

In addition to the five Israelis who were taken to hospital, Holla said that around 20 to 30 Maccabi supporters were "lightly" injured. He confirmed that the police have "no information that there are abductions or missing people" as some have speculated, but said they will treat these reports seriously.


Londoner beaten in Amsterdam because he ‘helped a Jew’
A 33-year-old Londoner has shared the harrowing details of how he was attacked and hospitalised after attempting to stop a gang assault on an Israeli man in Amsterdam on Thursday evening.

The incident followed a Europa League match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and AFC Ajax. The attack, which occurred after the game, saw Maccabi fans targeted by a group of thugs shouting pro-Palestinian slogans.

The father-of-two from Hendon recounted the terrifying events in an interview with the Jewish News. "We left the game early to meet a friend, and as we walked towards the bar area, chaos broke out—mopeds appeared from alleyways, and a crowd surrounded an Israeli man," he said. "The man was on the ground, his head pinned between a curb and a metal gate, being viciously kicked."

Aaron and his friend Jacob, a father-of-three from Golders Green, intervened in an attempt to help the victim, pushing the attackers away.

However, their efforts were met with further violence. "We thought it was over," Aaron recalled, "but moments later, the gang returned and confronted us, asking, ‘Are you Yehudi? Are you Jewish?’”

Jacob, who was also caught up in the attack, recalled the thugs demanding to see their passports. Despite their denials of being Israeli, the gang continued to harass them and the situation quickly escalated. "I told him to leave him alone and the next thing I know, he punched me in the face," Aaron said. "It was so unexpected. My glasses were broken, my nose split. Blood everywhere."

The violence did not end there. After Aaron was punched, about 20 more attackers emerged from hiding and began to assault him. "I stood my ground. I said, ‘What you’re doing is why you’re not getting any support,’" he said. One member of the gang, upon realising that Aaron was British, instructed the others to leave him alone. However, another responded, "Yes, but he helped a Jew."

"It was because I helped a Jew," Aaron explained. "That’s why they were angry."


Israel sends team of paramedics to Amsterdam after mob violence
An emergency team of Israeli paramedics has been sent to Amsterdam on a special El Al flight to assist with medical care and accompany the injured Israelis home.

The small team from Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s largely volunteer ambulance service, took off today and is expected to arrive in Holland this evening.

El Al has already agreed to lay on free flights tomorrow to transport Israeli fans back to their home country.

The collaboration between the two organisaions was described by Dina Ben-Tal Ganancia, the CEO of the flagship carrier, as “both our privilege and our duty”.

"El Al is proud to cooperate with Magen David Adom and serve as a crucial anchor in the rescue operation and provision of medical services to Israelis in Amsterdam,” she said.

A delegation of doctors from MDA's International Unit in Europe travelled over land to the hospital in Amsterdam today to support and assist the wounded on the ground.

MDA Director General Eli Bin said: “The incident in Amsterdam is severe and shocking. Immediately after receiving the information, I held a situation assessment and decided to send our leading medical teams as part of the rescue mission.

"Magen David Adom, as Israel's national rescue organization, is ready to assist any Israeli citizen, anywhere in the world. Special thanks to El Al for their cooperation and assistance in this complex and important mission."

El Al Board Chairman Amikam Ben-Zvi added: "El Al continues to contribute to the national effort and is adding Magen David Adom’s paramedic and medical team to the rescue flights. This is an important mission, and we are proud to be part of it."

Israeli officials said that ten citizens were injured in the violence overnight. According to reports, all Israelis injured in the attacks have been released from hospital in Amsterdam.

In a statement made during his visit to the Foreign Ministry’s situation room, where he was briefed on Israel’s response to the attacks in the Dutch capital, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that those behind the attacks don’t just pose a risk to Jews but the entire free world.

He said that the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht had been “marked on the streets of Amsterdam” when hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were attacked by anti-Israel mobs.


Shadow home secretary: Amsterdam antisemitic thugs should be deported if here illegally
The newly-appointed shadow home secretary Chris Philp MP has described the attacks on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam as “evil, sickening” and “overtly antisemitic violence”.

Philp, who was appointed by opposition leader Kemi Badenoch to his role on Tuesday, told the JC: “Every decent person has a duty to fight the scourge of antisemitism using every means available. I hope that the full resources of Holland’s police are used to urgently arrest and prosecute those responsible.”

The Croydon South MP, who served as policing minister in Rishi Sunak’s government, added: “If any perpetrators have no right to be in Europe then I hope that they are deported.”

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was “horrified by last night’s antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens in Amsterdam”, in a post on X/Twitter.

He added: “I utterly condemn these abhorrent acts of violence and stand with Israeli and Jewish people across the world.”


Moroccan former Chelsea star Hakim Ziyech is slammed for celebrating and mocking Israeli football fans who were attacked by 'anti-Jewish scooter gangs' in Amsterdam
Ex-Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech has been widely criticised for an Instagram post which seemed to welcome an attack on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam.

The fans were reportedly set upon by scooter gangs and anti-Semitic thugs during clashes that erupted after Maccabi Tel Aviv's 5-0 defeat to Ajax overnight, with 'rescue planes' sent by Israel on Friday to repatriate the injured and other citizens.

As many as 10 Israelis are thought to have been hospitalised and three were said to be out of contact with their families following hours of violence, which saw people in the city forced to seek shelter in shops.

One victim suffered a broken leg after being set upon by a 'scooter gang', according to Dutch media, with some 800 police officers deployed to tackle the chaos.

On Friday morning, Moroccan international Ziyech uploaded a post to his Instagram account reacting to the unpleasant scenes, saying: 'If it's not women and children then they run away. And STILL FREE PALESTINA.'


UKLFI: Natasha Hausdorff discusses lawfare against Israel with Jonathan Schanzer on FDD's Morning Brief
Natasha Hausdorff, Barrister and Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust, discusses the lawfare against Israel in International Courts with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD Senior Vice President on FDD's Morning Brief, 8 November 2024.


FoxNews Rundown: Evening Edition: How Will A New Trump Administration Handle Funding For The UN?
Israel has ended its agreement with UNRAW, the U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, which has been widely criticized for ties with Hamas. And now with a new Trump Administration to take power in just months, what will the overall relationship with the United Nations be?

FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch and international human rights lawyer, about reaction to President Trump's win and would the United Nations relief agency in Gaza would continue to get funding from the United States.
PMW: PMW Special Report: 8 Years of PA demonization of Donald Trump
PA daily: Trump "will exceed Hitler" (2024)
Fatah "No difference" between Trump and Hitler (2017)
PA: Trump's ‘rubbish' isn't worth a Jerusalem child's urine (2017)
"Shove it up your [ass]" - Fatah to Trump about peace deal (2020)
Trump is a "rich adolescent" an "ignoramus" (2018)
Trump "cloned from the genes of Hitler, Mussolini, and Balfour," Trump "suffers from multiple personality disorder, megalomania, and a racial superiority [complex]" – op-ed in official PA daily (2021)
Trump is a trash can (2017)
Trump - "America's crazy man" (2017)
"[Is] a man of this mentality capable of determining the fate of the world?"
Abbas to Trump: "May your house be destroyed" (2018)
Palestinians hang and burn Trump in effigy, brand him Nazi (2019)
Palestinians hang and burn effigy of Trump (2018)
PLO official: Trump is "stupid" and "crazy," threatens security and peace in the entire world (2019)
PA: Rejecting Trump's plan is a religious obligation; You "betray Allah" if you cooperate with the "deal of the century" (2020)
Palestinian girl to Trump: "Brother of a whore, [if] you want war - we will declare war" (2020)
Caroline Glick: The Left Scrambles to Undermine Trump-Bibi Success
Hope springs eternal for peace and prosperity in the Middle East with Donald Trump now elected to become the 47th president of the United States! But not everyone is happy. The left, both in Israel and America, have already begun their efforts to obstruct possible cooperation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump.




Tom Gross: Media hysteria: “Trump’s win may reverberate for a million years” & US elections: lessons for Israel
Tom Gross interviewed by Benita Levin, i24News, Nov. 7, 2024.


‘I’m of course elated that he won’: Gad Saad on Donald Trump’s election victory
Northwood University Professor and Global Ambassador Gad Saad has reacted to Donald Trump’s historic victory in the presidential election.

“I’m, of course, elated that he won to the dismay of nearly 100 per cent of my academic colleagues,” he told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“All of whom are saying that women will now no longer have any access to healthcare, trans people will be executed ... it really is a level of orgiastic unhinged irrationality.”


Here I Am With Shai Davidai: "Do you really wanna know? F*** you #zionist!" | EP 16 Leat Corinne
Welcome to the 16th episode of "Here I Am with Shai Davidai," a podcast that delves into the rising tide of antisemitism through insightful discussions with top Jewish advocates.

In this compelling episode, Shai sits down with Leat, a passionate activist dedicated to advocating for the release of hostages held by Hamas. Leat shares her unique upbringing in a deeply Israeli household in New York, where her parents instilled a strong sense of Israeli identity, despite living in the U.S. She recounts her decision to move to Israel after high school, where she attended Tel Aviv University and served in the IDF, experiences that deeply shaped her connection to Israel.

Leat describes the pivotal moment on October 7th when she learned that her cousin Omer was kidnapped by Hamas during a music festival. This personal tragedy propelled her into action, initially focusing on fundraising for IDF soldiers and later shifting her efforts to advocate for the hostages' release. She details her journey of organizing support, including raising significant funds and speaking at protests, and her interactions with lawmakers to push for humanitarian resolutions.

The interview also covers Leat's arrest in Washington D.C. for wearing a protest shirt, an experience she describes as both terrifying and enlightening, deepening her empathy for the hostages. Throughout the conversation, Leat emphasizes her commitment to Jewish civil rights and the importance of humanizing the hostages' stories to garner broader support. Her story is one of resilience, activism, and unwavering dedication to her people, offering a powerful narrative of personal and collective struggle.




Boycotters hypocrisy! Why does Sally Rooney allow her books to be published in Arabic? Tom Gross i24
“If she’s banning her books in Hebrew, why does Sally Rooney allow them to be published in Arabic?”

Tom Gross discusses the literary and cultural boycott of Israelis, of Jews, and of others who refuses to denounce Israel – and the pushback against these efforts by over 1000 other writers and cultural figures. (i24News, November 5, 2024)


2 charged with criminal trespass after disrupting event at Chicago Loop Synagogue, police say
Two people are facing trespassing charges after an incident Wednesday night at a downtown Chicago synagogue, Chicago police said.

Adam El Khailani, 19, was charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass while Jenin Alashqar, 20, was charged with a misdemeanor count for criminal trespass and a misdemeanor count for criminal damage to property, police said.

About 7 p.m., they entered the Chicago Loop Synagogue, 16 S. Clark St., and began damaging property, police said.

Videos shared on social media showed two people being pushed out of the worship area by guests at the event. Shortly after, police officers arrived and placed them into custody.

No injuries were reported.


Pro-Palestine mob plot to 'swarm' five UK cities in 'coordinated' Armistice Day protests
Pro-Palestine activists are plotting to throw Armistice Day events into chaos across the UK with a series of "highly coordinated" protests next week.

Five UK cities are being targeted by Youth Demand, an undercover investigation by Express.co.uk can reveal.

In a secret meeting on Saturday, November 2, the activist group joined Just Stop Oil at a members-only central London bar for an exclusive event.

The event in West Dock, called the ‘Politics is Broken: People’s Assembly & After Party’, saw upwards of 50 activists gather to listen to speeches and discuss policy while vegan food and alcohol were served.

Youth Demand activist Arthur Clifton told the crowd how the group was planning to wreak havoc on Monday, November 11 - a time when thousands across Britain will honour those who gave their lives for our country.

He said: "This is the start of our strategy coming into place on November 11. With five cities across the country, Youth Demand will be getting out onto the roads, swarming, causing disruption [and] getting off before arrests are made, hopefully."

Clifton, 23, who attended the prestigious £8,600-a-term Latymer Upper School, added that the protests would mean "highly coordinated, highly organised disruption on a nationwide level".

He also hinted at further chaos around Black Friday, a major discount day for British retailers and consumers, held on the last Friday in November.




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