Amsterdam attacks

Anti Zionist is antisemitism

MaizieD

Looking at the BBC coverage it looks to be provocation from both sides.

I suspect that it was more anti Zionist than anti semitic.

And football fans aren't known to be the ,most peaceable folk, on either side.

However, I've nothing further to say.

The BBC are not the independant news channel they profess to be. I for one never watch it.

So it’s ok to start this by attacking someone ? Their taxi?
Burn a flag ? Chanting anti Arab abuse, Mix that with football fever. Not sure about the taxi driver though. None come out if this well.
Netanyahu talkng about pogroms and nazi Germany is really hyping this up unnecessarily.

Oreo

Amsterdam, the city where Anne Frank and her family were betrayed.

Yes, a bit off topic, but if anyone is interested, this book is excellent.

silverlining48

Just fir balance it was reported that the previous night Israeli football supporters attacked a taxi driver and later a Palestinian flag was taken off a building and burnt. I don’t know if anything else happened.

I think your scales of balance need calibrating.

Amsterdam, the city where Anne Frank and her family were betrayed.

This saddens me, in a city where Dutch people did so much to fight antisemitism. I was there earlier this year, and in Dam Square there were a few groups of Palestinian protesters, but it was all peaceful. I'm guessing it all bubbled to the surface with the number of visiting Jewish football fans.
One of the main party leaders has spoken out, We have become the Gaza of Europe. Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews. He seems very clear who is to blame, and how to deal with it in no uncertain terms.

ferry23

I'm so sickened by the attacks on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. Shades of Nazi Germany.

A worrying and disgusting trajectory of anti Semitism in Europe.

I agree ferry.

Anti semitism has never gone away and is worse following the situation in Israel.

They were from Israel, and all the Dutch fans saw were Jews.
The Dutch fans were pro Palestinian. Policing was poor.

Just fir balance it was reported that the previous night Israeli football supporters attacked a taxi driver and later a Palestinian flag was taken off a building and burnt. I don’t know if anything else happened.

Looking at the BBC coverage it looks to be provocation from both sides.

I suspect that it was more anti Zionist than anti semitic.

And football fans aren't known to be the ,most peaceable folk, on either side.

However, I've nothing further to say.

Absolutely appalling, I haven't been able to watch it, talking to my family over there, people were just hunting and kicking the innocents to the floor.
As one Jewish person said " even after the Shoah, it still goes on".
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It certainly is.Antisemitism has never gone away of course and is always there simmering under the surface.