There was fierce Jewish resistance when the fascists reached Waterlooplein, followed by merciless reprisals that led to a general strike in protest. It in turn was violently suppressed, with SS Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart threatening severe draconian measures against anyone thinking likewise.
Frequently while in Amsterdam, a city I love and have been to many times, I visited Dam Square where a Nazi massacre had taken place in the hours leading up to the German capitulation in May 1945. A hallowed place in a city with a lot of history, much of it synonymous with the murdered Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.
Yesterday evening Amsterdammers must have felt Act Ⅱ was being staged. A football team from Nazi Israel, Maccabi Tel Aviv, was playing Ajax in the Dutch capital. Before and after the match the team's Nazi supporters were boasting of the genocide, with an emphasis on infanticide: how there were no schools in Gaza because the IDF had killed all the kids. This Nazi bragging can be seen against the backdrop of the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, describing Gaza as 'some movie out of Stalingrad.' The parallels with the Nazis could not be more striking. As Medhi Hasan recently suggested about the cap fitting: “If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop your actions.”
Frequently while in Amsterdam, a city I love and have been to many times, I visited Dam Square where a Nazi massacre had taken place in the hours leading up to the German capitulation in May 1945. A hallowed place in a city with a lot of history, much of it synonymous with the murdered Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.
Yesterday evening Amsterdammers must have felt Act Ⅱ was being staged. A football team from Nazi Israel, Maccabi Tel Aviv, was playing Ajax in the Dutch capital. Before and after the match the team's Nazi supporters were boasting of the genocide, with an emphasis on infanticide: how there were no schools in Gaza because the IDF had killed all the kids. This Nazi bragging can be seen against the backdrop of the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, describing Gaza as 'some movie out of Stalingrad.' The parallels with the Nazis could not be more striking. As Medhi Hasan recently suggested about the cap fitting: “If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop your actions.”
Western hypocrisy has framed the clash as an antisemitic pogrom with Dutch PM Dick Schoof kowtowing to the Israeli genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu, in his assertion that he was 'horrified by the antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens.' He seemed much less horrified about the Nazi sentiments expressed by some of those citizens, detailed by the outlet, New Arab:
Israeli football hooligans cry foul as they instigate riots in Amsterdam . . . Israeli football hooligans left a trail of destruction in Amsterdam after riots broke out following Maccabi Tel Aviv's 5-0 loss to AFC Ajax. The fans tore down Palestinian flags in the city center, attacked an Arab taxi driver, and damaged his car. Under the protection of Dutch police, they reportedly chanted genocidal slogans, including “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left.” Arab and North African residents responded violently to the hooligans, resulting in multiple injuries on both sides.
CNN Reported that:
Tensions had been rising in the lead up to Thursday night’s match with multiple social media videos showing Maccabi fans chanting anti-Arab slurs, praising Israeli military attacks in Gaza and yelling “f**k the Arabs.”
In an act of sacrilege Israeli Nazis congregated in the same Dam Square where the massacre of May 1945 took place.
As a lover of soccer, I firmly believe that no fan should ever go to a football game and not return. That applies as much to supporters of Israeli soccer teams as it does anyone else. But the Israeli Nazis undoubtedly provoked the attacks with their genocidal bragging. Far from being a Jew Hunt in Amsterdam what took place was a Nazi hunt. The actions of those confronting Israeli Nazis on the streets of Amsterdam have a lineage that can be traced back to those courageous Jewish fighters of Waterlooplein who cracked the skulls of German and Dutch Nazis. If an Israeli Nazi, soccer fan or not, has their head cracked for taunting Arabs about child murder, fuck them.
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Fucking stupid too, as Ajax is traditionally a Jewish club so while they fuck off back to Israel the Jewish population in Amsterdam have to deal with the inevitable consequences.
ReplyDeletethat's right Steve - one of the tactics used by Feyenoord fans was to collectively hiss at the Ajax fans: the hissing was meant to symbolise the gas being put into the death chambers. Amsterdam was the one major European city that Jews returned to in considerable number after the war despite more Dutch Jews being targeted by the Nazis there than in some other European cities. As you point out, authentic antisemitism might now raise its head against the Jewish people living in Amsterdam, as distinct from Thursday's Nazi hunt.
DeleteThe fact that the Jerusalem times newspaper reported beforehand that Mossad agents would be accompanying the Zionist fans to holland says it all..........they love to stir the pot and engender sympathy from the gullible.
ReplyDeletedidn't know that - it makes it all the more interesting - hope they were among the skulls cracked
DeleteArseholery all round. The racist chanting of the Maccabi fans was disgusting but not surprising as they have a notorious far right ultra grouping. They should be condemned for the racist morons they are not because of a failure to live up to idealised Jewish standards.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the behaviour of the Maccabi Ultras provided a pretext, there is strong evidence of premeditation and planning by the Moroccan gangs of the attacks on the fans. Again to be utterly condemned not because of the ethnicity of the perps but because of the violence itself.
ReplyDeleteWas it too much of an ask for the Dutch authorities to condemn both outrages equally?
ReplyDeleteAjax's Jewish identity can be problematic in that their fans do boast of being "Super Jews" (idealisation of Jews again) and some fly the Israeli flag. Just like Spurs fans reclaiming the "Y" word and also flying the Israeli flag. There is a case for not allow fan groups like the Maccabi Ultras to travel.
ReplyDeleteTwo Leeds United fans were stabbed to death and five wounded in Istanbul in April 2000 after rumours that some Leeds fans had wiped their bottoms on thr the Turkish flag. No violence at any football match is justified m
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