Amsterdam Police Given Emergency Powers After Night of Antisemitic Pogrom
Reuters: Dutch city “banned demonstrations through the weekend and gave police emergency stop-and-search powers in response to the unrest.”
As Europe marks the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Dutch city of Amsterdam gave police emergency powers to prevent further breakout of antisemitic violence. The measures to protect the Netherlands Jewish monitory came after the city on Friday night witnessed an anti-Jewish pogrom as organized Muslim migrant gangs ambushed hundreds of Israeli soccer fans after a match between Israel’s ‘Maccabi Tel Aviv’ and the Dutch team ‘AFC Ajax,’ historically seen as a Jewish club.
“Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days from Friday after overnight attacks on Israeli soccer supporters by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads,” Reuters reported Saturday.
The city “banned demonstrations through the weekend and gave police emergency stop-and-search powers in response to the unrest,” the news agency added.
Two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht; horrific videos coming out of Amsterdam tonight as Jewish soccer fans are brutalized by mobs shouting “Free Palestine” pic.twitter.com/Y1Tupl2tpu
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 8, 2024
Reports: Well-organized attackers identified as Muslims, some spoke Arabic
The Israeli fans were ambushed by masked men dressed in black. The attackers spoke Arabic, news reports suggest.
“Videos depicting the attacks after the game showed an Israeli being beaten and cornered by a group of black-clad young men,” Germany’s DW TV reported. The broadcaster added that “videos documenting attacks against Israelis on the streets of Amsterdam” contained “swear words in Arabic and English being heard in the background.”
“The fans testified that an ambush had been prepared for them in advance at various points outside the stadium,” the Israeli broadcaster Arutz Sheva reported. “Disturbing footage from the city, which was posted to social media, fans are seen being violently attacked, beaten and even run over.” One of the Israeli eyewitnesses identified his attackers a ‘Muslims,’ the news outlet added.
Horrific scenes from Amsterdam last night, echoing Europe's darkest history:
Hundreds of fans of Israel’s @MaccabiTLVFC were ambushed and brutally attacked in Amsterdam last night after the match against @AFCAjax.
Mobs chanted anti-Israel slogans and proudly shared videos of… pic.twitter.com/3O1KahWhl8
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) November 8, 2024
Dutch police release most of the suspected attackers
Most of the suspects, detained after the overnight attacks, have been released. “Of the 62 people local authorities detained following the attacks on Israeli soccer fans on Thursday night, only ten remain in custody,” the Jerusalem Post reported citing official Dutch sources.
I am speechless. Amsterdam Police just confirmed that NO ONE has been arrested during the Islamic Jewhunt in Amsterdam Thursday night. All arrests have been made before and during the soccer match and NOT during the pogrom. 😡
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 9, 2024
Europe reacts to Amsterdam Pogrom: “Most shameful hours in history”
The pogrom was unleashed just days ahead of November 9, also marked as the Reichskristallnacht or the ‘Night of Broken Glass,’ a date remembered for the 1938 Nazi pogroms against German Jews in the run-up to the Holocaust.
The attacks were widely condemned by European leaders, the BBC reported:
German leaders felt the Amsterdam riots keenly. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said they were “unbearable”: Jews had to be able to feel safe in Europe, he said.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander said the same – that Jews had to feel safe at all times: “We put our arms around them and will not let them go.” And France’s Emmanuel Macron said the attacks were a reminder of the “most shameful hours in history”.
Germany’s DW TV added:
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has condemned the incident, saying on X that he “followed the news from Amsterdam with horror. Completely unacceptable antisemitic attacks on Israelis.”
The Dutch leader said that he was in close communication with Netanyahu and that he had stressed that those responsible would be “tracked down and prosecuted.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was among those condemning the attacks.
“Outraged by last night’s vile attacks targeting Israeli citizens in Amsterdam,” von der Leyen said. “I strongly condemn these unacceptable acts. Antisemitism has absolutely no place in Europe.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also spoke out against the violent scenes.
“The images from Amsterdam are horrific and deeply shameful for us in Europe. The outbreak of such violence against Jews crosses all boundaries. There is no justification for this. Jews must be safe in Europe,” Baerbock said on X.
Dutch politician and leader of the ruling Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, condemned the ‘Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam’ and called for the deportation of antisemitic migrant gangs involved in the attack.
Rescue planes bring Israeli fans home
Israeli government dispatched two rescue planes on Saturday, successfully bringing beleaguered succor fans home.
#BREAKING: Israeli Soccer Fans seen Celebrating and Cheering aboard one of the Rescue Flights, on their way back home to Israel from Amsterdam after witnessing pogrom in Netherlands by Islamist radical gangs. pic.twitter.com/MCd3CCzJMB
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) November 8, 2024
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Emergency powers? Never. Ever.
Try Emergency Gun Permits instead.
“Emergency deportation” of these terrorist thugs should be the mandate. The cancerous rot of dhimmitude in Europe is too pervasive and entrenched and will never allow for a robust, substantive, unabashed and uncompromising response to rabid, goose-stepping, genocidal Islamofascism, Muslim supremacism and terrorism.
Seems like an easy problem to solve, doesn’t it? Amsterdam isn’t the vast stretch of land Russia is. Round up all the Muslim men that the government let invade their country and deport them.
Not generally available to foreign tourists.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-hooligans-provoke-clashes-amsterdam-after-chanting-anti-palestinian-slogans
Pro Hamas website.
And if you believe one word of that, I have a pier in Gaza to sell you.
“Hey, Oded, I have a great idea. Let’s go to a foreign country where we’ll be strangers and outnumbered and chant racist slogans against people who live there who have a well-earned reputation for violence and have set-up no go areas where the police are afraid to go. And to make it even better, in a country and city with a history of anti-Semitism & that allows its police officers as a matter of conscience to refuse assignments to protect the holocaust museum and other Jewish sites.”
Sorry that doesn’t meet the straight face test.
These slanderous lies are par for the course, where Muslim terrorist/supremacist/Islamofascist attacks against Jews, Christians and Hindus are concerned. The leftist, European dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats blame the victims for allegedly committing some alleged insult, slight or provocation against Muslims, which behavior is alleged to justify/rationalize/excuse Muslims’ goose-stepping and rabidly genocidal predations and bloodlust.
The same thing happened when Jewish schoolkids were attacked in England, a year or so ago, and, were falsely accused of having insulted (and, thus provoked) the Muslims who attacked them.
I guess he couldn’t remember his password to stormfront.
“ Middle East Eye was launched in London in April 2014.[3] The ownership of channel is not known. Its editor-in-chief is David Hearst who was a foreign lead writer for The Guardian until November 2013.[4]
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The website is accused by governments of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain of supporting the political campaign of the Muslim Brotherhood by creating biased news that supported the Muslim Brotherhood.[5] “
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Eye#:~:text=The%20website%20is%20accused%20by,that%20supported%20the%20Muslim%20Brotherhood.
Yeah, they traveled 2,800 miles so they could do that in a country where they were foreigners and outnumbered. Real believable.
Have you no shame?
“ 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.” https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/pogrom-2024/
There are strong indications that M.E.E. is owned and funded by the Qatar government. No articles criticizing Qatar’s royal family are published and it’s “reporting” mirrors Al Jazeera. It’s suspected that M.E.E. was formed to counteract the waning influence of Al Jazeera, in essence, to take it’s place. Putting a former Guardian man at it’s helm gave it a veneer of respectability but hiding who actually funds it pretty much tells you it’s a propaganda outfit.
Do not believe anything out of that rag anymore than your would Pravda.
Islam is a cancer in the West. These band-aid solutions of banning burkas, or noise ordinances to quiet the screeching of adhan 5 times a day, or ’emergency’ powers to quell the inevitable riots by these barbarians are the last gasps of dying countries.
Solution is simple: stop importing 3rd world barbarians into your country.
Islam is a cancer to the world.
I’ll allow it.
And all the pols….. “blah, blah, blah, and blah.”
I watched several great videos last night of Amsterdam police beating the living stuffing out of some of these hoodlums. Unlike US police, it appears Dutch police are allowed to liberally dispense justice using those large, baseball bat-like batons that they carry for crowd control. If ever visiting the Netherlands a policeman tells you to move, I would highly recommend moving.
No, the Dutch police stood by and did nothing as Jews were being attacked, even though Israel had warned of the risk. And Dutch police, as a matter of conscience, are allowed to decline assignments to protect Jewish sites.
If they were busting heads it wasn’t because they wanted to protect Jews.
Civilian police are controlled by civilian officials who are are politicians or political appointees. If police don’t respond in the way we think they should in these incidents of civil unrest, that’s almost always the fault of their elected leaders. It appears once Dutch police were let off the leash by the politicos, they took care of business.
Police “only follow orders.” Yeah, we’ll allow that… now.
Those would be the same police who as a matter of conscience refuse assignments to protect Jewish sites?
Good to hear, although, I’d caution that the Dutch police forces also appear to have been heavily compromised by pervasive and cancerous dhimmitude and fecklessness. I read a recent blog post (I can’t remember the website) in which a Dutch policeman was criticizing the pervasive phenomenon of certain officers refusing to police Jewish neighborhoods and synagogues, claiming an alleged moral objection to doing so.
That’s troubling to hear…but, not surprisingly, honestly. It’s LONG been my experience that Europe has a much higher concentration of antisemites than the US has, or has ever had. Some countries are worse than others in Europe.
And Netherlands is one of the worst, which is one reason Dutch Jews had such low survival rate during the holocaust.
If the police did beat them, it was long after the Israelis were off the streets and barricaded in their hotel rooms. The police were complicit. https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/pogrom-in-amsterdam
So the cops got a twofer. ‘First we let the damned Arabs take care of the damn Jews. Then we go after the damned Arabs.’
Muslim is another word for malignant. They spread their hate and evil cult wherever they go. They know no tolerance and violence is their tool of choice.
A couple of points. We were in Amsterdam last May. Our Hotel was right in the main square. Very large demonstration protesting the war against hamas. We gave it a wide berth. There was a feeling of unease by non Muslims in the area. As a student of WWII I can assure you that the Dutch had one of the largest nazi cabals in Europe. This cabal was one of the last to surrender. They starved their own people during the winter of 44-45. So to have in this day politicians who would have the police “stand down” initially is not unthinkable.