Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 11.10.2024
On Thursday, the mobs of the Israeli Maccabi football team were beaten in Amsterdam. It was on Thursday’s Europa League game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Dutch club Ajax, at the Johan Cruijff Arena in the southeast of the capital. The Zionists and their friends use terms like the Crystal night, Pogrom, and riots against Jews. These misleading terms not only distort history but ignore the fact that the Zionist mob provoked the pro-Palestinians by marching in the streets of Amsterdam with Zionist flags. Torn down Palestinian flags from the windows of citizens and sang and shouted: “Death to the Arabs, and we will burn your villages.” These provocateurs behaved as if they were in Israel, marching in the Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem on what the Zionists call the day of Jerusalem, chanting “Death to the Arabs.”
“Videos posted online showed groups of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans as they made their way around Amsterdam ahead of the game. “Let the IDF win, and [expletive] the Arabs,” the fans chanted, referring to the Israeli military, the Israel Defense Forces….Amsterdam Police Chief Peter Holla told reporters that law enforcement had to intervene at a casino Wednesday night after Israeli spectators vandalized a taxi, prompting some of the city’s cab drivers to mobilize and confront the fans…A video verified by The Washington Post showed Maccabi fans jeering and whistling at the game. At the same time, the rest of the stadium held a minute of silence for the victims of recent flooding in Valencia, Spain, where more than 200 people were killed”.[i]
“An eyewitness captured a video verified by Reuters showing a group of men running near Amsterdam central station, chasing and assaulting other men, as police sirens sounded. However, another verified video showed Maccabi fans setting off flares and chanting, “Ole, ole, let the IDF win,” referring to the Israel Defence Forces, followed by derogatory language directed at “Arabs.”[ii]
More than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed and 102,000 others injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza.
Even though the fans of Maccabi numbered 3000, and the pro-Palestinian groups that attacked them were much smaller. The Israelis ran away like chased rabbits.
“This led 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.'”[iii]
The Zionists and their supporters distort history when they use terms like Crystal Night, Pogrom, and riots against Jews.
First of all, not the Jews of Holland were beaten, but Hooligan Israeli Zionists. In Bologna, where Maccabi played basketball, they did not make provocations as the fans remained in Israel, and they were not beaten.
As to the term the Zionists and their friends use let us examine them:
Crystal Night:
“On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogroms. They described the actions as justifiable and spontaneous responses of the German population to the assassination of a German diplomatic official, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris. This unprecedented violence against the Reich’s Jews generated international outrage.
During the pogrom, some 30,000 Jewish males were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. This was the first time Nazi officials made massive arrests of Jews, specifically because they were Jews, without any further cause for arrest.
In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, the Nazi regime ordered the Jewish community to pay a 1 billion Reichsmark “atonement tax” and rapidly enacted many anti-Jewish laws and edicts.”[iv]
Is this what happened in Amsterdam? Not!!
Pogrom
“pogrom, (Russian: “devastation” or “riot”)s, is a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Although the assassin was not a Jew, and only one Jew was associated with him, false rumours aroused Russian mobs in more than 200 cities and towns to attack Jews and destroy their property. In the two decades following, pogroms gradually became less prevalent; but from 1903 to 1906 they were common throughout the country. Thereafter, to the end of the Russian monarchy, mob action against the Jews was intermittent and less widespread.
The pogrom in Kishinev (now Chişinău) in Russian-ruled Moldavia in April 1903, although more severe than most, was typical in many respects. For two days mobs, inspired by local leaders acting with official support, killed, looted, and destroyed without hindrance from police or soldiers. When troops were finally called out and the mob dispersed, 45 Jews had been killed, nearly 600 had been wounded, and 1,500 Jewish homes had been pillaged. Those responsible for inciting the outrages were not punished”.[v]
Was this what happened in Amsterdam? Not!!!
Riots
“Riot, in criminal law, a violent offense against public order involving three or more people. In Anglo-American legal systems, the offense of riot lies mainly in a breach of the peace. Under continental European codes, the offense requires interference with or resistance to public authority. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, a riot is usually a misdemeanor punishable by light sentences. However, laws in the United Kingdom provide for harsher penalties when rioters refuse to disperse after they have been ordered to do so by a magistrate. In the United States, Canada, and India, the penalty is increased for rioting against public authority. However, it is not as harsh as that of the United Kingdom, and the violation of public authority through riot does not require the formal presence of a magistrate.In Germany, a riot is limited to an offense against public authority and lesser acts of group violence are termed breaches of public peace. For a disturbance to constitute a riot, an official engaged in exercising his duties must be resisted, assaulted, or threatened. The penalty for both riot and breach of the peace is greater under German law if the accused person performed one of the overt acts or was a ringleader, a distinction also observed in Japan. French law does not define riot separately but treats it as a special case of resistance to public authority under the general heading of rebellion. Breach of the peace, which is central to the Anglo-American concept of riot, is not treated as an offense in French law.”
Was it a rebellion against the Dutch authorities? No. It was an attack on Zionist hooligans that certainly earned the attack on them!
The Zionists and their supporters have to confuse Anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism to justify the genocide of the Palestinians and to convince the Jews around the world to immigrate to the Zionist apartheid state and join its brutal and cruel army.
Down with racist Zionism and their supporters!
Down with the Zionist apartheid state!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/08/amsterdam-attack-israel-soccer-match-violence/
[ii] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amsterdam-clashes-football-israeli-1.7377872?cmp=rss
[iii] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14059455/Morocco-Chelsea-Hakim-Ziyech-Israel-anti-Jewish-Amsterdam.html
[iv] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
[v] https://www.britannica.com/topic/pogrom