Anti-Semitism in Amsterdam

Amsterdam’s Dam Square

Over the centuries Amsterdam, has had a proud history as a place where Europe’s Jews could find refuge from persecution. Many of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 settled in Amsterdam. The Dutch philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, was born into a family descended from 16th century Portuguese Jews. More recently, the family of Anne Frank, originally from Frankfurt, found refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam until the German occupation, when they were discovered in hiding and deported to the death camps.

Today, that proud legacy is in decline. Today’s Jewish residents of Amsterdam, much like their co-religionists in other Western European countries, are finding themselves targeted by the exploding Muslim immigrant population. As the below article explains, much of the anti-semitism carries the familiar  mask of Palestinian rights.

The below article from the Dagelijkse Standaard, is translated to English by Fousesquawk. Editing and sub-titling by Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes.

https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2019/02/gewoon-een-weekend-in-antisemitisch-amsterdam-ik-ken-ontken-de-holocaust-ja/

Just a weekend in anti-semitic Amsterdam: “Yes, I deny the Holocaust”


Photo: Holocaust-denying woman in Amsterdam

Meanwhile, Amsterdam, once the proud owner of its own Jewish quarter, has become one of the most anti-semitic countries in all of Europe. Those who defend Judaism on Dam Square have it thrown at them that the Holocaust is a fiction and that Hitler did not kill 6 million Jews.

Is Amsterdam is still a pleasant place to live for those of Jewish background? Lodelijk Asscher (Labour Party) probably sticks his head in the sand and probably says that it is. But anyone who sees the almost weekly disclosures of Micahel Jacobs sees that the tolerance for the People of the Book is diminishing. And this weekend he stood again on Dam Square  to counter the anit-semitic protesters, who, under the guise of the Palestinian cause, coolly vent Jew hatred.

And no, it is not because of settlements on the West Bank or the blockade of Gaza. It is quite simple: It is about the Holocaust. About how the Holocaust  is supposedly a lie, and how Jews have fabricated it  themselves  in their all mighty anger. Michael Jacobs, is not looking anywhere now.

“I recorded the attached film yesterday with my bodycam. I think that it speaks for itself. Members of a vast circle of Israel-haters (who present themselves really as BDS (B for boycott) but who are worldwide-known as an anti-semitic movement, create on Dam Square a climate that stimulates passers-by to express anti-Jewish sentiments publicly.”

There you go.