The Difficulty: A mob assault on followers of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer membership in Amsterdam on Thursday evening.
The current ambush of Israeli soccer followers in Amsterdam is appalling and has no place in any civilized society (“A Pogrom in Amsterdam,” Editorial, Nov. 9).
What is especially troubling is the obtrusive disparity in how these occasions are reported and condemned.
Had the state of affairs been reversed — had Jews attacked Muslims — the worldwide response would undoubtedly have been swift and loud.
The hypocrisy is disheartening.
Antisemitic acts far too typically obtain muted responses, reinforcing the concept that Jewish lives are one way or the other much less deserving of safety and justice.
This double customary is unacceptable.
Governments, international establishments and media organizations should do higher.
Richard Wolff
New Rochelle
Politicians who wailed concerning the modern-day Hitler being elected president abruptly grew to become very quiet concerning the antisemitic barbarism in Amsterdam.
Would possibly this sort of staggering hypocrisy have contributed to a current electoral final result?
It appears you possibly can’t idiot the entire deplorables the entire time.
Julia Lutch
Davis, Calif.
Can anybody be actually shocked by Thursday’s debacle in Amsterdam — the antisemitic riot {that a} main Dutch nationwide politician described as a modern-day “Jew hunt”?
Does this pogrom not underscore the catastrophe Holland has introduced upon itself with its coverage of laying out a welcome mat to many hundreds of radical, Jew-hating, Center Japanese immigrants?
And all of this from a nation that holds essentially the most doubtful of information on the subject of its pre-World Struggle II Jewish inhabitants.
In the course of the struggle, the Netherlands willingly cooperated with the Nazis in rounding up over 107,000 Jews, with just some 5,000 surviving the Nazi loss of life camps.
It’s evident that ought to the Netherlands not take daring and heretofore unprecedented motion, it should have realized nothing from historical past.
Mitchell Schwefel
Barnegat, NJ
The violence towards Jews in Amsterdam isn’t solely stunning and disconcerting, however jogged my memory of a go to my spouse and I made to the Netherlands in 2022.
I visited the American cemetery in Margraten, the place over 8,000 American servicemen are buried. Every grave is attended to by locals.
Amongst these graves is that of Maj.-Gen. Maurice Rose, commander of the third Armored Division, a part of Gen. George Patton’s forces.
Gen. Rose was not solely a Jew, his father and grandfather have been rabbis.
I’m certain that the majority Dutchmen and girls are dismayed by the violence towards Jews, and my spouse and I’ll all the time be impressed by these residents who’ve displayed such gratitude for the American troopers who drove out evil.
Sidney Baumgarten
North Brunswick, NJ
Kudos for thus effectively capturing the importance and enormity of that terrible orgy of antisemitic violence.
That’s what limitless, senseless Israel-bashing inevitably results in.
These clearly long-planned pro-Palestinian mob ambushes of Israeli soccer followers, eerily on the eve of Nov. 9 Kristallnacht commemorations, must set off the highest-level alarm bells throughout the West.
However, as occurred with the Oct. 7 atrocities, will present preliminary shock quickly fade from reminiscence?
We dare not let it.
What begins with the Jews by no means ends with the Jews.
The very destiny of Western civilization, finally, is at stake.
Richard D. Wilkins
Syracuse
In Amsterdam, the town of Anne Frank, an antisemitic mob attacked Jews, a lot of whom have been injured, and a few, I hear, are nonetheless lacking.
So virtually 75 years after the loss of life of Anne Frank, Jews can nonetheless not reside within the Netherlands with out worry for his or her lives.
Antisemitism is prevalent and widespread, and the world has forgotten the teachings of the Holocaust.
The world wants scapegoats, and it’s all the time the Jews.
Thank God the Jews have a rustic now that may defend them wherever on the planet, and defend them as wanted.
Mindy Rader
New Metropolis
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