Netanyahu condemns antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam, warns world leaders that attacks will spread if they do nothing

JERUSALEM – On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the worst incidents of anti-Semitism in Europe this century.

Netanyahu directed his harsh words during a violent anti-Israeli mob attack in the Dutch city of Amsterdam on Thursday. “We will not allow the atrocities of history to be repeated. We will never allow lawlessness or terrorism,” he said.

He added, “A clear line connects the two antisemitic attacks against Israel that we have seen recently on Dutch soil: The criminal legal attacks against the State of Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the violent attacks on Israeli citizens in the streets. In Amsterdam they in both these cases, there was a dangerous anti-Semitism, its goal was to give the helpless Jews and their state, to deny our country the right to defend itself and to deny our citizens their right to live.

“Yesterday we marked Kristallnacht , which happened 68 years ago in Europe. It was a brutal and violent attack on Jews just because they were Jews. Unfortunately, in recent days we saw pictures that remember that night. In the streets of Amsterdam, antisemitic rioters. attacked Jews, citizens of Israel, simply because they were Jews.”

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Netanyahu warned that, “Attacks of this kind do not only threaten Israel but endanger the whole world. We have learned something from history: Attacks that start against the Jews, do not end with the Jews. Eventually, they spread to the whole society, and the attacks on the Jews do not only attack the Jews. And they move on to another the country until they burn the entire humanity Therefore, I expect and demand that every responsible government take strong, strong, clear and urgent measures.

Adding to the anger of Dutch authorities, the leader of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, blasted Amsterdam leaders for failing to arrest the perpetrators.

Writing in X yesterday he said, “I am speechless. The Amsterdam police have just confirmed that NO ONE was arrested during the Islamic Jewhunt in Amsterdam on Thursday night. All those arrested were arrested before and during the football match and NOT during the pogrom.”

A Dutch politician has called for the left-wing mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, to resign immediately.

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Halsema, from the Dutch Green party, called the violence “an outburst of anti-Semitism that we hoped we would never see again in Amsterdam,” according to the Associated Press.

Meanwhile new information has emerged about a highly organized antisemitic attack on Jews in the town where Nazi sympathizers shamefully abandoned the young German Jewess Anne Frank, who was in hiding, to the Nazis during the Second World War.

The Holland Casino in Amsterdam reported that after the Israelis fled the casino for safety, a security guard working at the casino had “sent messages to a group of operatives” who were looking to harm the Israelis.

According to Holland Casino’s statement, “Steps were taken immediately, and the employer was informed that this person is no longer welcome at Holland Casino. Employees of Holland Casino or companies employed by Holland Casino must put the interests of Holland Casino, our guests and our employees first. This did not happen in this country. In addition, there is no place inside the Holland Casino for any kind of violence, racism or discrimination.

Israeli soccer fans were reportedly attacked by local Arab groups near Amsterdam Central station, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 8, 2024, in this still image found in a social media video. (X/iAnnet/via Reuters)

Israeli news agency TPS-IL reported that a Rabbi and volunteers from the Chabad House in Amsterdam and an Israeli Druze man contributed to helping the victims.

“The night before the game, there was a fight between the Israeli fans and the local Arabs. So when we first heard the news about the conflict after the game, we didn’t realize what was happening at first,” said Rabbi Dovi Pinkovitch, head of the organization. the Chabad House in the center of Amsterdam, told TPS-IL.

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The rabbi brought together local Jews and Israelis living in Amsterdam to help the Israelis stranded on the streets, taking them to safe hotels. “There have been cases where local taxis have taken Israelis to the center of the conflict instead of bringing them to safety, so we understood that we needed to help. Volunteers, in their private cars, worked all night to find hundreds of Israelis. hotels,”

An Israeli Druze named Melchem ​​Assad gave important early warnings to the Israelis about the violent attacks taking place. As he got off the train on his way from the game to the hotel, he saw a group of men speaking Arabic and beating those who wore green scarves and spoke Hebrew. So he returned to the station and ordered the arriving groups of Israelis to take down the Maccabi Tel Aviv signs, disperse and not speak Hebrew.

Assad told TPS-IL that by his estimation, he was able to help at least one hundred and fifty Israelis. “I have a baby boy at home and my heart was pounding as I approached that group. But I am Israeli, and I knew I had no choice but to help if I could.”

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Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders speaks to the media after a meeting with the Speaker of the House at the House of Representatives in The Hague, November 24, 2023. After his shock election win, Dutch gunman Geert Wilders on Friday began the formal process of forming a government coalition, struggling to convince reluctant rivals to serve under him as prime minister. (Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

According to the Times of Israel, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told the Israeli president in a lecture that “We failed the Jewish community in the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again.”

The population of Amsterdam is estimated at 920,000, with about 20,000 Jews. Before the Holocaust, 80,000 Jews lived in Amsterdam. A total of 40,000 Jews live in the Netherlands. There are nearly a million Muslims in the northern European country, and 90,000 Muslims live in Amsterdam.

Wim Kortenoeven, a former member of the Dutch Parliament in Wilders’ party and an expert on the Middle East told Fox News Digital that “The Dutch police have been so Islamized that Muslim police now feel confident to refuse to protect Jewish institutions for reasons of ‘conscience.'” he said.

Echoing a report in the Jerusalem Post in October quoting two Jewish police officers, Kortenoeven noted, “Only last month this came to light when Jewish police officers in Amsterdam blew the whistle on it, warning the media that Jewish victims were under threat of terrorist attacks. Therefore they might not be protected. They have been proven.” that they are right this weekend when more than a thousand police officers were not willing to effectively protect a Jewish soccer ball in Israel that was attacked by Muslim mobs.”

Kortenoeven, who now lives in Israel, added that “Such a large army can be deliberately inactive. Witnesses and victims also testified that the police remained silent in the face of Muslim attackers. No arrests were made. This weekend did not involve Arabs attacking Jews. Meanwhile, the authorities refused identifying Muslim mobs appropriately and calling them ‘motorcycle boys.’

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In this photo taken from a video, police in riot gear run towards a football stadium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 7. (RTL Nieuws via AP)

Halsema declined to comment at a press conference on Friday that the alleged abusers are Muslim and of Moroccan origin, Dutch critics of Islam said. The mayor’s office said the suspects were “running youths,” referring to a popular mode of transportation in the city used by young Dutch Arabs.

On Sunday, Fox News Digital reached out to the Amsterdam police department for comment.