“The Jews provoked this one.”
This was the response of one X user to the attacks upon Jewish football fans in Amsterdam last week. The man posting it did not have, as we have come to expect from such martinets, the Palestinian flag in his bio. Nor was there any trace of Nazi nostalgia. No, what this man felt was contempt. He resented what he could only see to be the unfurling of a foreign conflict on European streets.
It is not that this was a “clash”—a bit of disorder—between football fans, as some of the mainstream news publications have reported to the public, for the Tel Aviv team were playing against a Dutch club. In the same apologist vein, others have attempted to explain away the assault upon Jews by referencing the actions of Israeli fans pulling down Palestinian flags and chanting offensive songs. The proportionate response to the offence is thought to be kicking all Jews—any Jews—in the face, hunting them through the streets, beating them unconscious, and shoving them onto live railway tracks.
No. This was a targeted attack, a pogrom, upon Jews and Israelis by “pro-Palestine” activists and Arab Muslims.
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