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On November 7, Muslims — mostly Moroccans with an admixture of other Arabs — conducted a “Jodenjacht,” or “Jew Hunt,” in Amsterdam. Gangs of Muslims went running after and assaulted Jews, including Israelis who had come to the city to cheer on the Maccabi soccer club earlier that day for its match with a local Dutch club, Ajax. Maddened by antisemitic hate, these Muslims surrounded Jews, punched them to the ground, kicked them in the head. Some required hospitalization. The Dutch were embarrassed and apologetic. “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again,” said King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands to President Isaac Herzog during a telephonic conversation.
Now, four days later, the antisemitic attacks have erupted in another city, Antwerp, and in another country, Belgium. More on this latest outburst of Muslim Jew-hatred can be found here: “Antwerp police arrest five, as fears of a ‘Jew hunt’ rise following calls to action on social media,” by Yuval Barnea, Jerusalem Post, November
Antwerp police arrested five people on Sunday as part of proactive operations against a suspected “Jew hunt” following calls to action on social media, according to De Morgen.
A police spokesperson told De Morgen, that five people had been put under administrative arrest, a special form of arrest used in Belgium as a preventative measure rather than as part of a criminal investigation, it can last up to 12 hours.
All five were released from administrative arrest that night in accordance with Belgian law.
Belgium was not immune from the global rise in antisemitism stemming from Hamas’s October 7 attacks. City authorities recorded over 90 reports of antisemitism in the first two months of the war, according to a Sky News report. In the same report, residents highlighted that they were much more visible as the majority of the community is haredi.
After the Amsterdam pogrom, calls began to appear on social media from Thursday to Friday for local youth to organize a jodenjacht (Jew hunt)….
Police checked groups behaving suspiciously. Anyone found in possession of flags, balaclavas, or other material that could point to imminent action risked an administrative arrest. The same applied to those who did not respond to police requests to leave the area….
These were “Palestinian” flags, and the balaclavas were meant to hide the faces of those happily engaged in their “Jew hunt.”
Outgoing Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt tried to reassure the Jewish community following the Amsterdam pogrom in a meeting on Sunday. He told them that the Belgian anti-terror service was working to stop copycat attacks.
“Can this happen in Belgium? The honest answer is: why wouldn’t it happen here? We have to be realistic about that.”
Belgian PM Alexander De Croo also spoke out against the violence, saying, “There is no place for antisemitism in Europe.”
Yes, why wouldn’t such attacks happen in countries that have admitted into their midst millions of Muslims, who are inculcated from childhood to hate the Jews, who they know are the “greatest in enmity to the Muslims” and were responsible for poisoning Muhammad? Why wouldn’t those attacks happen when the authorities for so long have done so little to protect Jews, until finally the attacks become so brazen and widespread that officials have to act?
And when Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo claims that “there is no place for antisemitism in Europe,” tens of millions of Muslims who carry and spread the antisemitic virus in Europe are living evidence that there certainly is a “place for antisemitism in Europe.” Amsterdam, and now Antwerp, prove the Belgium prime minister wrong. And so do the antisemitic attacks that have been carried out by Muslims in Paris, London, Berlin, and hundreds of other cities where there have been attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools, and individual Jews who appear in public wearing kippahs or necklaces with Stars of David ornaments. The disease is spreading. The antidote will require admitting that Islam always and everywhere inculcates antisemitism. The indigenous peoples of Europe will have to decide whether they will at long last put a halt to Muslim immigrants, and deport as many Muslims as possible back to their countries of origin, in order to make their countries places where Jews can live without fear, or whether they prefer to see the Jews leave for Israel and North America, to be replaced in their countries by those whom the late Oriana Fallaci called the “sons of Allah,” who were, she warned, busy “colonizing Europe.”