Members of the small Jewish community in Amsterdam confronted the city’s deputy mayor Friday morning, demanding answers for its failure to prevent violent attacks on Israeli soccer fans the night before that international Jewish organizations and leaders condemned as a pogrom. “My parents are terrified, I am terrified,” one man shouted in Dutch during the...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22366482
[ Article gives a lot of information on the racist anti-Arab provocations of the visiting Israeli soccer fans, including tearing down Palestinian flags and burning a taxi belonging to a Moroccan driver. It’s clear that much of the violence was directed at Israeli hooligans, not Jews in general.]

Excerpt: "Jelle Zijlstra, who is Jewish and works as a community organizer in Amsterdam, made a post that went viral on Instagram stating that “multiple truths can exist at the same time.” It highlighted both the assaults on Israelis and footage of the fans shouting “F— Palestine” the night before.

“There was definitely antisemitism involved in some of the events that took place,” Zijlstra said in an interview. “Were Jews attacked in the streets? Yes, but those Jews were also violent hooligans.”"

By Arno Rosenfeld
November 8, 2024