{"id":280318,"date":"2024-11-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280318"},"modified":"2024-11-14T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:28:06","slug":"zionists-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/zionists-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Zionists in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amsterdam\u2019s Dam Square, site of the initial attacks.
(Dragan Jankovic Faza, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n

What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide it from view.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

12 Nov 2024 <\/em>– In the annals of \u201canti\u2013Semitism,\u201d if not anti\u2013Semitism in its un-weaponized form, the events before, during, and since an ill-fated soccer match in Amsterdam last week merit a prominent entry.<\/p>\n

We find in these chaotic days a picture in miniature of the sickness that has overtaken \u201cthe Jewish state,\u201d the shameless apology those purporting to lead the Western post-democracies make for the straight-out barbarities of Zionist zealots, and the full-frontal disinformation spread by corporate and state-funded media as they pose as the first line of defense against disinformation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a three-fer, then, the whole banana in one place and at one time \u2014all of this in the cause of the Zionist regime as it prosecutes its yearlong genocide in Gaza and sets about expanding its campaign of murder and destruction across West Asia.<\/p>\n

Bad enough that planeloads of freak-show Israeli extremists arrived in Amsterdam last week for a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, the famous Dutch side, and instantly set about terrorizing the city in the name of Zionist chauvinism.<\/p>\n

Worse were the authorities, starting but not ending with Amsterdam\u2019s mayor and the Dutch foreign and prime ministers, recasting what was bound to follow as anti\u2013Semitism, a 21st century pogrom, and so on down the list of hyperbolic absurdities.<\/p>\n

Worst \u2014 and I indeed count this worst for its consequences \u2014 Western print and broadcast media purposefully falsified all representations of these events to turn reality upside down: Wall-to-wall, the criminals became the innocents in the news accounts, the victimizers became victims, and the victims became condemnable, anti\u2013Semitic menaces to human decency.<\/p>\n

See what I mean? Violence, lies, distortion, inverted reality: Two days in Amsterdam last week look now like one of those 16th century paintings the Dutch called \u201cworld landscapes,\u201d wherein the whole of the earth is depicted in a compact panorama.<\/p>\n

What happened in one Dutch city is the world as we have it since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, the Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide it from view.<\/p>\n

Language is the instrument of my trade, and there must be words adequate to these depravities and corruptions. There must, there must. But the only one I know that matches the task at this point is \u201cNo!\u201d Bear with me, please, as I struggle to find others.<\/p>\n

It has been long and well documented that the Zionist ideologues who have fashioned a national consciousness among Israelis have systematically cultivated a presumption of Jewish superiority and \u2014 the contradiction here is only apparent \u2014 a corresponding belief that the rest of humanity detests Jews and the world is in consequence a dangerous place.<\/p>\n

This project, wherein Old Testament tales of Jewish barbarities are routinely invoked, predates World War II by many decades; since 1945, as is plain to anyone who looks honestly, the Holocaust has been fully instrumentalized<\/a> in this cause.<\/p>\n

Systematic Indoctrination\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recall video footage shot in Jerusalem during the crisis at al\u2013Aqsa Mosque in May 2021. It showed young Israelis, the girls in prim blue-and-white school uniforms, leaping up and down in a sort of blissed-out frenzy shouting \u201cKill all Arabs!\u201d and other such obscenities.<\/p>\n

What in hell? I wondered. Zionism is racism, yes, but how did it sink to this level of crudity?\u00a0 I should have understood. I did not know then the extent to which the minds of Israelis and Zionists the world over have been mutilated.<\/p>\n

Two films \u2014 maybe there are more \u2014 explain the systematized indoctrination that produced the outcome at al\u2013Aqsa.<\/p>\n

Defamation<\/em> is a cleverly done documentary from 2009 that follows adolescent students as they are brainwashed, during a summer sojourn in Europe, to fear a world that hates them.<\/p>\n

Israelism<\/em>, released last year, shows how American Jews are similarly instructed in Hebrew school \u2014 and how the eyes of many of these victims are opening to the frauds and racist cruelties of Zionist ideology.<\/p>\n

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Israeli police forces in Lod, on May 11, 2021. (Israel Police, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

You can watch Defamation<\/em> here<\/a> and Israelism<\/em> here<\/a>. These films are brilliant and brave.<\/p>\n

And there is a straight line from the purposefully inculcated xenophobia and paranoia they depict to the scene on Jerusalem\u2019s streets during the crisis at al\u2013Aqsa and now \u2014 my point here \u2014 to the repulsive mobs of Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week.<\/p>\n

These are people, hundreds of them, who began their provocative aggressions as soon as they disembarked at Schiphol, Amsterdam\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n

The video and reported record shows them marching through the streets in what amounts to a rampage, tearing down Palestinian flags displayed on house fronts, vandalizing a taxicab with its driver (Moroccan) inside, attacking local people with pipes and clubs, chanting obscene, probably criminal slogans \u2014 \u201cKill the Arabs,\u201d \u201cFuck you Palestine,\u201d \u201cThere are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left,\u201d \u201cLet the IDF fuck the Arabs,\u201d and on and on in this line.<\/p>\n

The last is a reference to recent protests in Israel in defense of Israel Defense Forces soldiers found to have gang-raped Palestinian prisoners. Violent demonstrators, among them members of the Netanyahu cabinet, thought sodomizing Palestinians held in what amount to torture camps, should be made legal.<\/p>\n

Numerous videos and news reports detail the horrific conduct of these repellent punks and the to-be-expected response from local people.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is one published last Friday in Middle East Eye<\/em>. Here<\/a> is a nine-minute video from Owen Jones, The Guardian<\/em> columnist who has had a lot of things wrong over the years but has this story very right. Here<\/a> is an exceptionally pithy commentary in MEE<\/em> by the estimable Jonathan Cook.<\/p>\n