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The Intifada Was Globalized in Amsterdam by Alan M. Dershowitz and Andrew Stein

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21118/amsterdam-globalized-intifada

There is no moral or legal equivalence between non-violent mischief — such as tearing down flags and shouting racial insults — and committing life-threatening assaults upon people based on their religion and ethnicity. The anti-Israel rioters were hunting down Jews…

Muslim extremists have a long history of hurling spears in response to non-violent insults. Recall the numerous deadly attacks — shootings, stabbings, bombings and lethal fatwas—against those who allegedly insulted the prophet by picturing him or authoring books about him. There was also violence against those who burned Korans or otherwise demeaned Islam. Even cartoons provoked deadly responses.

The law in no Western nation grants the victims of non-violent insults the right to respond by violence. If a Jew were to physically assault the many Muslims who have repeatedly demeaned Judaism or its nation-state during recent protests, they would be appropriately punished, as some have been.

[W]e are likely to see more anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish pogroms in other parts of the world as antisemitism moves from the fringes to the mainstream.

Protestors – both pro- and anti-Israel – have the right to express their views verbally and even symbolically, but they have no right to attack individuals or groups based on religion, ethnicity or national origin. Those who engaged in physical assaults – and many were caught on video – must be prosecuted and, if convicted, imprisoned or deported. A clear line must be drawn between lawful, even if immoral, protests, and criminal violence…. It is a bright-line distinction that many in the media are deliberately trying to blur.

The U.S. has a stake in stopping this violence: the call to “globalize the intifada” is not limited to Europe. Those who advocate globalization are inciting violence against Americans of Jewish heritage. The incitement may be too general to be denied First Amendment protection against criminal punishment, but the single standard demands that universities apply the same standard to calls for intifada than they would to calls for lynching of blacks or assaulting of gays. The real difference is that no university student or faculty member would ever call for the latter, and if they did, they would be disciplined or expelled. Yet today it is entirely acceptable, indeed expected, that radical students will call for the lynching and assaulting of Jews and Israelis. That, after all, is what an intifada entails.

The Talibanization of Bangladesh: ‘Genocidal Campaign against Minority Hindu Population.’ Where is Mohammad Yunus? by Uzay Bulut

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21116/bangladesh-genocide-hindus

“Hindus targeted in #Bangladesh again. This time in Chittagong. Is administration led by Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus unable or unwilling to help Hindus?” — India Today, November 7, 2024.

Since the collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government in August, the world has witnessed the full Islamization and Talibanization of Bangladesh.

“Ever since the Bangladesh prime minister was forced to flee… images, videos and accounts are streaming in of atrocities against the Hindu minority in Bangladesh, whose numbers have dangerously depleted over decades almost to the point of extinction….” — Sreemoy Talukdar, firstpost.com, August 8, 2024.

“One viral video clip shows radical Islamist lunatics inspecting the genitals of a murdered man, possibly lynched to death, and expressing satisfaction that he was a Hindu.” — Sreemoy Talukdar, firstpost.com, August 8, 2024.

In many instances, members of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, are behind these attacks and rights violations. Jamaat-e-Islami was banned by the Awami League government on August 1. Four days later, PM Hasina was forced to resign and her government collapsed.

Jamaat-e-Islami has now gained strength under Bangladesh’s Islamist interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus. Islamist radicals are the ones who brought Yunus to power.

The influence of the Hizb-ut Tahrir — another in Islamist organization that aspires to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate and globally implement Sharia law — also keeps increasing.

“The interim government led by Mohammad Yunus has largely failed to stop the violence against the minorities and has made matters worse by lifting bans on radical Islamist groups and releasing terror suspects from jail that rule the roost on the streets of Bangladesh.” — Raja Muneeb, firstpost.com, September 5, 2024.

If a power such as the US sits back, does nothing and watches as the Talibanization of Bangladesh unfold — as the Biden administration has done — it is likely that the chaos will not remain within the borders of Bangladesh. India will not allow another Islamist state on its borders to wipe out Hindus, Christians and secular Muslims in Bangladesh. India might justifiably decide that its security is threatened enough.

Second Wave of Apparently Antisemitic Attacks Breaks Out in Amsterdam Alex Welz

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/second-wave-of-apparently-antisemitic-attacks-breaks-out-in-amsterdam/

A famous Dutch tram was set ablaze by rioters in Amsterdam on Monday in what appears to be a second wave of antisemitic violence, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Rioters in all-black attire were seen throwing objects and shouting “Kanker Joden,” a phrase that translates to “Cancer Jews” but is widely interpreted as “F*** the Jews.” The tram reportedly contained no passengers.

Perpetrators shattered the windows of a different tram earlier in the day before setting it on fire in the city’s western suburbs. This prompted clashes with law enforcement and more than 50 arrests. A police spokesman reported that the blaze was likely caused by fireworks.

Masked individuals were reported to be roaming the streets shouting “Free Palestine” in the attacks’ aftermath. This comes just days after Israelis soccer fans were targeted in Amsterdam by mobs of young men following a soccer match. Five victims required hospitalization while 20 to 30 others were injured. At least 62 suspects were arrested, yet only ten remained in custody later that same day, Amsterdam’s public prosecutor René de Beukelaer told reporters.

“The Antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam are despicable and echo dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted,” President Biden wrote on X. “We’ve been in touch with Israeli and Dutch officials and appreciate Dutch authorities’ commitment to holding the perpetrators accountable. We must relentlessly fight Antisemitism, wherever it emerges.”

The moral ghettoisation of the Jews The left’s apologism for the pogrom in Amsterdam marks a foul new low. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/11/the-moral-ghettoisation-of-the-jews/

Gal Binyanmin Tshuva, 29, is a keen football follower from Israel. Not a hooligan, not a thug, just a fan. In Amsterdam on Thursday night he found himself surrounded by a frothing, Israelophobic mob. They asked where he was from. ‘Greece’, he said, in a desperate bid to evade their hate and blows. They demanded to see his passport. He said he didn’t have it on him. They pushed him to the ground, stomped on his face, gashed his head, broke two of his teeth and knocked him unconscious. He came to eventually, in an ambulance, his face streaked with blood.

Adi Reuben, 24, was set upon by 10 Jew-haters. They beat him so badly they broke his nose. ‘Jewish! IDF!’, they yelled as they pummelled the Jew’s face. Aaron, a Jewish football fan from Britain, saw one of his co-religionists from Israel being stomped on and subjected to anti-Semitic abuse. He intervened to help him. The mob cornered him, yelling: ‘Are you Yehudi? Are you Jewish?’ He said he was a Brit. ‘You helped the Jew’, they said and smashed his face in. They broke his glasses and left his face coated in cuts.

Barak took refuge in Amsterdam’s Holland Casino, along with hundreds of other Israelis, as outside a mob of 200 gathered and seethed, ‘looking for blood’. A young Israeli man staggered into the casino. ‘All his face was blood’, said Barak. They were the victims of a jodenjacht – a ‘Jew hunt’. That’s the phrase used by the assailants themselves, in Telegram chats ahead of the violence. Bring fireworks, they told each other. We’ll attack this ‘cancer’, these ‘dogs’, they said, referring to the Israelis. And they did. They whizzed through the city on mopeds, using fireworks to ‘pelt’ the ‘dogs’ from the Jewish State.

Mathias Döpfner: Make Germany More Jewish Again

https://www.thefp.com/p/mathias-dopfner-make-germany-more-jewish-again?utm_campaign=email-post&r=8t06w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Last week, a mob rampaged through the streets of Amsterdam, ambushing and assaulting Jews. Anyone who appeared to be a supporter of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv was targeted by groups mostly consisting of young men from the city’s Dutch Moroccan and Dutch Turkish communities. Just before the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, victims pleaded with their assailants “not Jewish, not Jewish.”

This shameful episode is only the latest example of antisemitism on Europe’s streets. It is the disgraceful consequence of an irresponsible migration policy that is equally receptive to Islamists and Holocaust deniers. Violent incidents have become more common since October 7, 2023, and the already shrinking population of European Jews is set to decline further as many Jews in the Netherlands, in France, and my country, Germany, consider emigrating. 

The decline, in Germany and Europe more generally, is greeted with a shrug. Such complacency is shameful. Particularly in Germany. The country can never make up for its historical guilt, but it could help ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself. Not only should Germany be working to persuade Jews to stay—we should throw open our doors to Jews who want to move here. Allow me to explain.

In his book Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, German historian Götz Aly exposes how antisemitism is deeply rooted in a destructive envy. He describes how, for centuries, people were not only envious of the outward successes of the Jews but also of something profound and ancient—a culture, a religion, a history that has continued to exist across millennia. 

“The envious person,” Aly surmises, “is always seeking a scapegoat.” The unsettling question he poses is “Can you be envious of someone you despise?” Jews were vilified as being “rootless,” although they possessed exactly what the Germans had been looking for: a clear identity and story. 

Envy, again, is a major root cause of the global spread of Islamist antisemitism. What we know from Germany’s painful history is that when antisemitic envy, and the envy of achievement, become the dominant zeitgeist, they stand in the way of knowledge, wealth, and progress. Instead, they produce delusion, poverty, and regression. What inevitably transpires is the opposite of meritocracy: “ineptocracy,” or the rule of the least capable. 

Trump and the ‘sick man’ of Europe By Kenneth R. Timmerman

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/trump_and_the_sick_man_of_europe.html

Ouf! (as the French would say), we’ve got our country back. Praise the Lord for answered prayers.

World leaders sent out their congratulations.

Even Russia’s Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his resounding re-election victory. This is normal and it is healthy.

Putin has always wanted two things — and not much more, actually — from U.S. leaders: a recognition of Russia’s great power status, and respect as Russia’s legitimate leader.

Biden didn’t just deny both of those, he gratuitously threw the insults in Putin’s face. I am still grappling with the strategic purpose the Democrats saw in taking us to the brink of World War III with Russia. Maybe there wasn’t one.

Putin said he is ready for talks over Ukraine. Just three weeks ago, it was no way, Jose.

Elections have consequences.

Trump has said he wants an immediate end of the fighting. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky quite understandably is not happy with that, since the Russians occupy something like sixteen percent of Ukrainian territory. But for now, Zelensky has little to no leverage.

A ceasefire would freeze the frontlines and bring in some kind of interposition force, most likely, some combination of NATO troops and nonaligned nations. And then the real negotiations would begin.

Also among those congratulating Trump on his re-election was NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Along with saner NATO leaders, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Rutte could hear the drumbeats of war in Europe’s capitols and knew the utter devastation a war with Russia would bring.

Donald Trump just walked the hotheads like France’s Emmanuel Macron (Little Cookie) back from the brink of World War III. The proper response to that is, Mon dieu, merci!  

A pogrom in Amsterdam The thuggish attacks on Israeli football fans recall Europe’s darkest days. Tim Black

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/08/a-pogrom-in-amsterdam/

On Thursday night, in a dark echo of Europe’s darkest days, Amsterdam bore witness to a pogrom.

Following a Europa League football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv, ‘pro-Palestine’ thugs went on an organised and seemingly pre-meditated hours-long hunt for Maccabi supporters – because, well, they were Israeli Jews. And that is enough it seems, in this era of keffiyeh-sporting, BDS-fuelled anti-Semitism, to justify hunting people down and violently attacking them.

According to Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, men riding scooters searched the streets for Israelis and carried out ‘hit and run’ assaults. Other reports tell of masked men ambushing and attacking fans as they walked back to their hotels. Some Israelis were knocked down and beaten up. Others were forced to jump into canals to escape.

One video recording shows a man lying on the ground as a gang of men repeatedly kick his motionless body. Another shows a vehicle being driven at what presumably is a Maccabi supporter. Another shows Jewish football fans being attacked in a crowded street, while a man shouts, ‘That’s for Gaza motherfucker… now you know how it feels’.

According to the Amsterdam police, five supporters were taken to hospital, while 20 to 30 others were treated at the scene. It is likely that many more would have been seriously hurt and worse if it wasn’t for those Amsterdam locals who allowed Maccabi supporters to hide and shelter in restaurants and cafés.

Deborah Lipstadt, currently the US special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, is in no doubt as to the significance of what happened last night. It was a concerted and violent attack on Jews because they were Jews. It was all too reminiscent of ‘a classic pogrom’, she said, before drawing attention to the attacks’ proximity to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, ‘when Nazi-sanctioned and Nazi-led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich’. Striking a similar note, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told Israel’s President Isaac Herzog: ‘We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and last night we failed again.’

It was all so grimly predictable. Ever since Hamas’s 7 October attacks and the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, anti-Semitism has surged across Europe. Synagogues have been fire-bombed. Jews have been menaced and attacked. And the streets of Western cities have been filled on a near-weekly basis with anti-Israel marches, thronging with anti-Semitism. It was these conditions that made an attack on Israeli Jewish football fans all too possible.

A Muslim Mass Street Terror Campaign in Amsterdam “We have become the Gaza of Europe” by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-muslim-mass-street-terror-campaign-in-amsterdam/

The media is calling it “protests”, “clashes” or at best “riots.” Jews have taken to calling it a “pogrom”. None of those terms are right. What we are seeing in Amsterdam is a systematic organized mass Muslim street terror campaign. It doesn’t rely on firearms or bombs, apart from the usual Car Jihad, but showed its ability to plan out and deploy hundreds of Muslim occupiers in the Netherlands to ambush and attack Jewish fans of an Israeli soccer team, and then to control the streets and terrorize any non-Muslims, forcing them to chant, “Free Palestine”.

The media is dismissing this as soccer riots. It’s not. The game was a friendly match between a Dutch team that has a large Jewish fanbase and an Israeli team. Nor are these “protests”. There isn’t even a pretense that this was anything other than a planned campaign of targeted assaults.

(I’m not going to post videos of it, for the same reason I didn’t post Oct 7 videos, but they’re easy enough to find.)

Geert Wilders has condemned it, called for accountability for the authorities and deportations for the perpetrators. And while this time the targets were Jewish, they eventually will be all non-Muslims in the Netherlands.

The same kinds of campaigns will eventually be fought as insurgencies with hundreds and thousands of armed Jihadis in the streets of Amsterdam once the Dutch save themselves.

This is not the end of the story. Like most acts of Muslim terror, it’s a trial run.

“We have become the Gaza of Europe,” Wilders tweeted. The ugly truth is that Gaza is where Islamic migration is.

Islamism, the West and Human Rights by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21088/islamism-west-human-rights

Sharia tenets – which have views of human rights, justice, mercy and compassion that differ from those of the West — can appear alien to Judeo-Christian precepts. Sharia, in usage, often appears to contravene the basic humanistic values of the West.

The outcome is that, in application, the moral laws of each tradition — that of the Torah as opposed to that of Sharia — which prescribes harsh punishments, such as amputation for theft; death for leaving Islam (apostasy) or blasphemy, or being stoned to death for adultery, which can include having been raped — are consequences inimical to Western ideas of justice, mercy and human rights.

By practicing a different faith, those who do not subscribe to Sharia are “disbelievers” (infidels), deemed to be in breach of “The Path” and consequently subject to a penalty of conversion, subjugation or death.

This is particularly true for Jews and Christians, who were offered opportunities to accept the gift of Islam but ungratefully declined.

“Slay the infidels wherever you find them…” — Qur’an, Sura 9:5.

The concept of universal human rights might seem quite strange to Islamists.

The intent of jihadi state actors …. in their own words, appears to be the imposition of Sharia law and Islamic dominance over the world.

That is why textual originalism in the interpretation of US Constitutional law is of particular concern to jurists. Emphasis on the original intent of the writers of the US Constitution rather than the fluctuating views of a succession of lawyers is of prime importance.

Reinterpreting the US Constitution can easily become like the children’s game of “telephone”: after a few migrations, the original intent of the founders could well become unrecognizable.

Western leaders find it difficult to regard religiously powered radicalism with the weight it deserves. “[I]t’s precisely because it’s religiously grounded that such radicalism is exceptionally dangerous.” — George Weigel, First Things, January 31, 2024.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, during World War II, said in the House of Commons on June 18, 1940: “If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.”

Although Churchill’s statement also applies to Western nations at this time, Israel has been largely alone in the fight to preserve the West’s Judeo-Christian ideals. It would be to the West’s advantage for other nations to join Israel in this noble task.

The Torah’s ethical and moral laws, which became known to the world as Moses’ Ten Commandments, founded the West’s moral-ethical precepts on which its laws and judicial concepts such as justice and mercy are based. This development is reflected in the United States’ founding documents, as well as England’s Magna Carta of 1215, among others.

‘Pogrom’ in Amsterdam: Netanyahu sends planes to rescue Jews, US members of Congress demand action

https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-sends-planes-to-amsterdam-to-rescue-jews-from-pogrom/

The Israeli National Security Council told Israelis to remain in their hotel rooms, avoid wearing anything with Jewish or Israeli symbols and to return home early.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at about 4:30 a.m. local time that he was dispatching two rescue planes to Amsterdam following a “very violent incident against Israeli citizens.”

“The harsh pictures of the assault on our citizens in Amsterdam will not be overlooked,” Netanyahu’s office stated. “Prime Minister Netanyahu views the horrifying incident with utmost gravity and demands that the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters, and ensure the safety of our citizens.”

The Israeli National Security Council stated in Hebrew that Israelis in Amsterdam should remain in their hotel rooms and avoid the street, refrain from wearing visible Jewish or Israeli symbols and notify Dutch police and the Israeli mission about any threat or attack. The council also advised Israelis to return to home, with more planes expected.

Earlier in the day, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost 5-0 to Ajax Amsterdam in a Europa League soccer game. Various reports indicate that Israeli fans were attacked—with some reports of injuries—after leaving the game. Some reports indicated that up to dozens of people were arrested. (JNS sought comment from the Amsterdam police.)

Geert Wilders, who leads the largest political party in the Netherlands, wrote that it “looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam.”

“Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets,” Wilders wrote. “Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable.”