In this connection, after the domino of student protests in the US against the Israeli crimes, these days the continuous controversy of a football match in Amsterdam has become a showcase of growing rise in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli crimes in the Western countries.
The story started when fans of Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv football club on November 7 during a match with Ajax insulted Palestinian flag and people before the game, thinking that their support to their army will not draw any reactions from the Dutch. After their humiliating loss of 5-0 to Ajax, they chanted racist slogans and brought down Palestinian flag from a building in the capital Amsterdam.
The Israelis chanted "Gaza no longer has schools because it had no children" and "Israeli army should kill all of Arabs." They also attacked a taxi driver in the city.
But this insolence of the Israelis did not go unanswered and a group of Dutch youths, including Muslims and non-Muslims, took action against these outrageous actions and clashed with Israelis. After a few minutes, the clashes expanded and a number of Amsterdam squares became scenes of confrontations between Dutch youth and Israelis. The Dutch youth even chased the running Israelis to their hotels and ran over some of them with their cars.
According to local sources, during these clashes, dozens of Israelis were injured and hundreds of others were beaten for their violent actions. Israeli sources claimed that seven Israelis were kidnapped during the clashes, but Amsterdam police said there was no sign of kidnappers or missing persons in the aftermath of the violent encounters.
After these events, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, who was apparently struggling to support the Israeli regime, assured his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that Dutch nationals involved in the incident will be tried.
In order to protect the lives of the Israelis, the Dutch police have banned any demonstrations and gatherings for memory of what they call the "massacre of Jews by the Nazis in Germany in 1938". The local authorities of Amsterdam also declared the capital of the Netherlands a "high-risk security area" by issuing a state of emergency.
The violent attacks of the Israeli regime against the Palestinians in Gaza in the past year have angered the public opinion of the world, and thousands of people in Western countries, including the Netherlands, protested against these genocidal war and asked their governments to sever their relations with Tel Aviv.
Western governments usually describe citizens' demonstrations against the Israeli regime as "anti-Semitic" and therefore continue to provide military, political and diplomatic support to this regime.
The people of the Netherlands have repeatedly shown that, unlike their political officials, they always reject the blind support to the genocidal government of Netanyahu, and since the beginning of the Gaza war, they have stood up to support the Palestinians as supporters of peace, and this time they have proven that they stand on the right side of history.
Shock in Tel Aviv
Beating the Israelis in the Netherlands has shocked Tel Aviv leaders. An hour after the incident, Netanyahu's office said the PM asked the Dutch government to provide security guarantees to the Israelis and also announced dispatching two relief airplanes to the Netherlands to aid those injured.
Shocked by these developments, the Israeli officials called for the transfer of the Israeli nationals from the Netherlands in an official request. In this regard, the foreign ministry asked the Dutch government to help evacuate the Israelid from this country following these conflicts, and the foreign minister flew to Amsterdam to closely investigate this incident.
Hebrew media extensively covered this incident and described it as a difficult incident and even a failure. In its report, Maariv newspaper mentioned the events in Amsterdam under the title "the November 8 defeat in the Netherlands".
The Internal Security Council of Israel asked the Israelis to refrain from traveling for football and basketball matches of this regime's teams in Europe until further notice, and not to walk in the streets and to stay in the hotels.
Describing this incident as horrible, Israel President Issac Herzog in an X post wrote: "Today we were horrified to see horrible pictures and videos that we hoped we would never see again since October 7. Attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Israeli citizens in the heart of Amsterdam reminded of October 7 in the Netherlands.
This position demonstrates the recognition of the growing wave of hatred and outrage against the Israeli occupation in the world due to its continuous war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israelis ride over the incident to play victim
In the past 76 years, the Israeli authorities have always tried to convince the world community that they have been oppressed throughout history by reminding them of fake historical events, in order to justify their occupation of the Palestinian land, and this time they used the incident in the Netherlands as an excuse to play victim.
In reaction, Netanyahu tried to put these events within the framework of the worn-out claim of anti-Semitism in Europe in order paint the Jewish minority in the West as victim.
Clearly, Israel and the far-right government of the Netherlands are trying to use the unrest to weaponize the fake narrative of anti-Semitism and sway public opinion towards sympathy with Tel Aviv. But the reality is that Israeli tricks do not work anymore and the genocide in Gaza and ongoing killings in Lebanon have shown Israeli true color to the world and the Israeli officials' play to take advantage of the Netherlands incident will not work.
Although the assault on the Israelis in Amsterdam dealt a terrible blow to the Israeli leaders, it may provide the hardline government of Netanyahu with an opportunity to encourage the Jews around the world to migrate to the occupied territories using this anti-Semitism wave in the West. After all, since start of Gaza war, over one million Jews have fled the occupied territories and according to polls, one-third of settlers are thinking of migration, something extremely worrying the Israeli leaders.
Therefore, Netanyahu and his cabal who dream of formation
of an all-Jewish state are trying to propagate the idea that the Jews
are not safe anywhere in the world and they need to migrate to the
occupied territories for them to realize their ambitious dreams
together.
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