Ap and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 9, 2024, p. 18
Amsterdam. Five people hospitalized and 62 arrested was the result of a clash in Amsterdam between fans of the Israeli Maccabi soccer club and another group of young people, Dutch authorities reported yesterday.
The events were classified as a antisemitic attack by the international community. Attacks were recorded against fans of the Israel team and provocations by them towards the Palestinian community, as captured in multiple videos. Israeli fans chanted anti-Arab slogans on the way to the game, while shaking their fists escorted by police, as captured on video.
During the match, Israeli fans interrupted the minute of silence dedicated to the victims of the climate tragedy in Spain, a country that calls for the recognition of the Palestinian State.
At the end of the sports match, in the streets several people chanted anti-Arab slogans, celebrated the genocide in Gaza and mocked the murdered children: There are no more schools on the strip because there are no more children, Death to the Arabsamong others.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the intelligence agency to prepare a plan to prevent unrest. The diary The Jerusalem Post reported that intelligence members had been in Amsterdam since Thursday as part of the Tel Aviv team’s security corps, just in case.
The United States affirmed that what happened in Amsterdam reminds a classic pogromwhile President Joe Biden said it is a negligible reminder of dark moments of history when Jews were persecuted.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, declared indignant and assured that antisemitism has no place in Europe.
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof, said he felt deeply ashamed for him antisemitic attackwhile Geert Wilders, leader of a Dutch far-right party, spoke out in favor of detaining and deporting to the multicultural scum.
Spontaneous reaction: Hamas
Hamas stated that these incidents are an example of the spontaneous repercussions of the genocide against the Palestinian people, who continue without the international community intervening.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militia praised to the crowds in the Netherlands who confronted the rowdy supporters of the Zionist entity’s teamreferring to the provocations of Israeli fans, reported the Lebanese television station Al Mayadeen.
Amsterdam, a city where four out of every 10 inhabitants are of foreign origin, is known for offering refuge to those who need it throughout history, whether from the LGBT community, persecuted religions, political asylum seekers, migrants of all kinds. Thursday’s events are a blow to his image as a beacon of tolerance.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar lamented in his X account that hatred towards Jews is appearing in more and more places.