What attacks on Jews in Amsterdam?

On the evening of November 7, scenes of Jews being ambushed and beaten on the streets of Amsterdam were appearing on social media. Most of the news media couldn’t be bothered to report this until days later, however. After all, colleges and public schools were worried about the mental health of their delicate students, traumatized dangerously by the outbreak of democracy in their country and a result that didn’t please them (or their parents, in the case of 10 years olds).

Georgetown, one of the universities that has a diploma with its name on it turned face to the wall in my office, invited students to a “self-care suite” while its McCourt School of Public Policy offered milk and cookies, hot cocoa, Lego blocks and “Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises” to keep students from plunging into the depths of despond. Harvard, the other school with a front-to-the-wall diploma in my office, cancelled classes in mourning along with other elite universities, aka progressive indoctrination camps. So reporters and talking heads were focusing on the real news—you know, how racist, sexist, stupid, uneducated and irresponsible voters were not patriotic enough to embrace the empty and dishonest candidacy of Kamala Harris. Social media videos showed distraught and panicked Americans screaming, crying, and vowing vengeance.

I missed the Amsterdam story entirely because the headlines I glanced at, always well below the election freakout headlines if they were there at all, made it look like just another European soccer riot. Ho hum. It was a lot more than that.

These were antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans after a soccer match involving a visiting Israeli team. At least 62 people were arrested in connection with attacks on supporters of the Israeli team that many terrorism supporters and anti-Israel thugs in the city didn’t want to see in the Netherlands. The violence included attacks on Israeli fans by rampaging mobs that kicked and beat the Jews in “hit and runs.” Sometimes the attacks came via motor scooter.

About 30 Jews were attacked. Israel’s government warned fans in Amsterdam to stay off the streets and helped arrange at least three flights to bring Israeli citizens home. Was it just a coincidence that the attacks in Amsterdam came in the same week that marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) that occurred on November 9–10 in1938? Probably, but it would have been a propitious time for journalists and teachers to point up the parallels. Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and its recently incorporated territories. It was the prelude to “The Final Solution.”

Apparently neither college students, nor public school administrators, nor the left-biased news media thought the outbreak of violent anti-Semitism abroad was anything to get Legos-level upset about, especially since that candidate voters were so foolish to reject had tried desperately to hold on to the votes of the “From the River to the Sea” crowd, including those who terrorized Jewish students in colleges from coast-to-coast. Harris deliberately avoided picking Pennsylvania’s popular, non-knuckleheaded governor as her running mate because he was “too Jewish,” and she certainly didn’t want to alienate potential supporters who would chuckle over the Amsterdam violence.