So an actual pogrom just fucking happened in Amsterdam
And like, either way you spin it, as just anti israel or anti jew, it’s still fucking disgusting and sickening.
Like you can boycott the Israeli soccer team for playing and be upset at that, and boo at people for supporting them, but to actually attack the supporters?????? That’s like 10 steps too far.
And not all of the supporters were Israeli, there were Dutch and other European jews there, showing up to support the team.
Assuming the only motivation is being anti israeli, it’s still absolutely sickening and wrong to attack Israelis and people supporting an Israeli soccer team for literally supporting a soccer team. Like call for a boycott of the Israeli team, protest their ability to play in the Netherlands. But to attack their supporters? That’s fucked up and too far.
And this certainly isn’t freeing Palestine. This isn’t telling jews who are thinking about moving to Israel to not move. It’s not telling Israeli jews to up and leave israel. It’s telling jews both diaspora and Israeli, that Israel is the only safe place for us. Which should not be the message people are portraying, but it is.
And I don’t want to scare monger and go “Israel is the only safe place for jews” as A) it shouldn’t be and B) it’s not. That is just the message people around the world are sending, intentional or not.
And whilst being anti israel seems like the main motivation, there is heavy antisemitic undertones because of the message this attack has sent. Like you can’t see this and go “erm it’s purely because they’re anti israel”. Because there has been no documented attack on a sports team supporters because of the teams country. And if there has been, which I will concede if I’ve missed one or two, like it’s not common and this would then be one of the first instead of the first. Even when kiwis protested the springbok rugby tour here in NZ during aparthied, there wasn’t any mass attacks. You’re telling me that the thing which sets Israel a part from other countries, being the only jewish state in the world, plays no part in this pogrom at all? Nah, you’d have to be actually insane to think that
Edit: apparently the attackers were posting on social media before the attack that they were going to steal “jews passports” not israeli, jews. You can’t tell me antisemitism was never a fucking part in this shit
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