Overnight, hundreds of Jews ran through the streets of Amsterdam as they fled attacks by organized gangs of violent antisemitic thugs.
It’s not breaking news from 1940: It happened in the Netherlands Thursday night, as fans of Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv were leaving a match against AFC Ajax.
Brutal gangs chased the Israeli fans from the stadium, assaulting them and screaming the favorite phrase of Jew-haters around the world: “Free Palestine.”
These vicious monsters set in gangs upon single fans and brutalized them.
They ran one down with a car.
At least 10 Israel fans were injured and five had to be hospitalized.
The mask of “antizionism,” which has been slipping ever since the atrocities of Oct. 7, has finally come off.
The victims were soccer fans. Civilians. There’s no possible way for any “antizionist” to connect these spectators with overall Israeli policy. No, they were attacked because they were Jews.
That it’s come to this should surprise absolutely no one.
The Hamas butcheries of that terrible day sparked global demonstrations — in support of the butchers.
Sydney famously saw “pro-Palestine” marchers reportedly screaming “Gas the Jews.”
That moral monstrosity continued to worsen apace and exploded onto US campuses this spring, with vicious crews of Jew-hating thugs “occupying” college property and assaulting, harassing, and intimidating Jewish students and filling the streets of New York with pro-hate gatherings.
All this occurred with the blessing of the United Nations, of high European officials, of US leftists in the academy and media.
Kamala Harris, in one of her final campaign speeches, to her ineradicable shame endorsed the slur that Israel is committing genocide.
And here we are, with scenes straight from Nazi Germany being replayed to the horror of any rational viewer.
What will happen next?
You already know the answer.
Yes, the mayor of Amsterdam will continue making apologetic noises.
Yes, the usual suspects in DC and Brussels and elsewhere will condemn in the strongest terms and all the rest of the usual, empty cant.
Maybe Chuck Schumer will finally allow an immediate Senate floor vote on the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which passed the House on May 1 with overwhelming bipartisan support, 320-91 — but Schumer has kept bottled up because it divides Democrats.
Yet the calcified European establishment will take no meaningful long-term action.
And the Jew-haters will duck back into the shadows until the next time they want to satisfy their bloodlust.
What will that look like? Firebombing Jewish-owned shops? Lynchings?
Until it is finally acknowledged here in the United States and around the world that “antizionism” is merely a moral fig leaf for already existing Jew hatred, this dark night is only going to get darker.
