The hooligans of an Israeli football team in Amsterdam attacked peaceful football fans, tore down a huge Palestinian flag hanging from a building and chanted racist Anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim songs in Hebrew. The Dutch police stood watching the scene and did not intervene.
Because pro-Palestinian protesters responded to the insults, they are now accused of the magical word of "anti-semitism" which strikes the brains of Europeans and westerners like a bolt of lightning. As soon as they hear the word, they freeze into an acerebral posture where reason is suspended, and an overwhelming sense of guilt washes off any process of delineating right from wrong. Westerners have been brainwashed for decades to dam up any other input when they hear the words "Jew" or "anti-semitic".
The official Zionist diktat to their former European holocausters is that Jew = Israeli = Zionist. If you criticize Zionism as a colonial movement, then you just hate Jews. If you denounce the genocidal Israeli state, you must hate Jews. Even decent thoughtful Jews have been accused of "self-hate" for criticizing the barbarian Jewish theocracy known as Israel. I have yet to hear a Jew, a Zionist, or an Israeli define those boundaries within which someone can criticize Israel or Zionism WITHOUT being accused of antisemitism. The reason is that there is no such space. No criticism of anything remotely associated with Israel or Zionism is allowed in the public discourse, let alone a movement that fights for its freedom from Fascist Zionism like the Palestinian quest for justice and independence.
Remember, Israel was created by the western world as a homeland for those Jews that survived Fascist Europe. There is nothing wrong with giving these refugees fleeing German, French, Polish, Russian and other Fascists a place of their own. But why choose Palestine? Because of a garbage fiction - the Torah-Bible - written several thousand years ago in the Arabian desert? How stupid or criminal was it to decide to uproot an entire indigenous Near Eastern nation in order to give its land to refugees from European Fascism.
Europe, but more so the "new world" of America, north and south, have huge swaths of uninhabited land and territories. They could have created a Jewish homeland somewhere in Montana, Idaho or the Dakotas, or in Argentina or Brazil where it could have thrived in security, surrounded by the love those Christian westerners have belatedly discovered for the Jews (after murdering and terrorizing them from two thousand years). Remember that anti-semitism is a western ideology: Hatred of Jews was born in Europe and later followed the European conquerors of the Americas to the new world.
Arabs and easterners have coexisted with their fellow Jewish communities for millennia. Arabs and Jews are one and the same Semitic people sharing nearly identical languages and religious and social customs. The biblical metaphorical story of Abraham reflects an anthropological, social, genetic and linguistic reality on the ground of history. Jews are one Arab tribe that migrated out of today's Iraq and made its way to Palestine, weaving fantastic stories and myths along the way of having been chosen by God who split oceans for them and gave them someone else's land, the coastal land of the southern Canaanites who had done nothing to the wandering Arab tribe known as Hebrews. If it is true that Yahweh-God granted someone else's land to his pet tribe, then he is a fucking monster.
There is no antisemitism in the Arab Muslim world as it is understood in Europe and the West. Arabs are Semites too, so why would they hate thermselves?
If the Dutch government really wants justice to prevail, it should arrest those Israeli Fascist hooligans who tore down the Palestinian flag and chanted racist anti-semitic songs against Semitic Arabs and Palestinians. Those Israeli Fascists are not even genetically Semitic; they are European recent converts to Judaism and have no relationship whatsoever with the original Jews of the Near East.
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