Guy Millière
November 7. Amsterdam. As soon as a soccer match between the Netherlands' AFC Ajax, a Dutch soccer club, and Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv ends, Maccabi supporters who came from Israel and several European countries to attend the match, are attacked. Many are chased through the streets, beaten, thrown to the ground, punched, kicked, stabbed, and thrown into the icy water of the city's canals. While the attackers shout anti-Semitic slurs, the victims, in an attempt to escape, shout back that they are not Jewish.
The attackers film what they do, then post the videos on social networks. Five Israelis are hospitalized; dozens of others, some wounded, lock themselves for hours in their hotel rooms. The Israeli government sends planes to rescue the Jews. A jihadi pogrom has just taken place in the city where Anne Frank and her family hid until they were turned over to the German occupiers and sent to death camps.
"This is a very dark moment for the city, for which I am deeply ashamed," said Femke Halsema, Amsterdam's "left wing" mayor.
"We must not look away from antisemitic behavior on our streets," King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands was even more explicit.
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