AMSTERDAM (JNS) – Police in the Netherlands arrested more than 150 soccer fans on Saturday night for chanting antisemitic slogans while making their way to a match in Amsterdam.
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The incident occurred at a metro station close to the capital’s Johan Cruijff ArenA, home of Ajax Amsterdam.
Local news station AT5 said those arrested were AZ Alkmaar supporters.
06.05.2023 Netherlands🇳🇱 Ajax Amsterdam vs AZ Alkmaar.
AZ cought by 1312 ~150 arrested for singing anti jew songs about Ajax. All had to give ID and put in cell for few hours. pic.twitter.com/khv7SGeOyd— Gruppaof (@gruppaof_hools) May 7, 2023
Opponents of Ajax often refer to the club as “The Jews,” as the team has had several Jewish chairmen and notable players.
Last year, two Dutch fans responsible for antisemitic graffiti targeting a soccer player were ordered by a judge to 60 hours of community service and to visit the Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam.
The Feyenoord supporters—two males ages 42 and 47—drew graffiti on a wall in Rotterdam depicting soccer player Steven Berghuis with a large, hooked nose and dressed in the same striped garments worn by prisoners in Nazi-run concentration camps. The former Feyenoord player was also shown wearing a yellow Star of David badge and a kippah.
The text accompanying the caricature said: “Jews always run.”
In 2021, police in the Netherlands investigated footage from a pre-match rally during which fans chanted “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”
The incident occurred prior to a game between the Arnhem-based Vitesse and Amsterdam-based Ajax.
Two years before, a Jewish man, identified in the Dutch media only as “Joram,” was verbally and physically assaulted by a group of 50 men on a national holiday known as Liberation Day, as police stood by.
The men, wearing soccer shirts of the Feyenoord club of Rotterdam, had been sitting in a park near the Dutch parliament building, singing, “My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews ’cause Jews burn the best,” when Joram asked them to stop.
Despite complaints to police, they apparently did not react, while the crowd pushed Joram, who was wearing an Ajax Amsterdam cap.
If anyone has any doubts as to the vibrancy of anti semitism in Europ here is a shinning example. To all those who hate Jews, please stop using cell phones, computers and all the technology invented and perfected. Please refrain from taking polio vaccine, so that you may contract the polio virus and please G-d become paralyzed and suffer. What have you druncken uneducated vermin contributed to society? NOTHING
Very special of police
But why were they cjanting anti Semitic slurs?
Where is their decency?
They spent it on their dogs and cats
Jew hatred is in their DNA!
They can’t help themselves.
21 year old rightist “influencer” Uros Blazic killed 10 people in Serbia, including his own sister and a Serb policeman while on a rampage 3 days ago. Serb authorities call it an Act of Terrorism. Right wing & neo nazi actions are common in Europe now. Like chanting “Gas the Jews” at Dutch soccer games.
Muslims
Israel has a few nuclear bombs. Let’s see how these anti semites burn.
Completely wrong and very troublin!. As much as I hate these bums, there is something called free speech. Take that away from anyone, then what stops others from not letting Jews say Aleinu – Sh’mistachvim l’hevel V’rik -loosely translated the gentiles bow down to garbage and nothingness and then spit in discust.
I remember when Alan Dershowitz defending the Nazies march in Skokie as protecting their and in the same vain our rights, However, he told them he hopes and wished the bus turns over on the way there.
In another thread, a poster claimed that “the right to free speech does not include the right to disgrace.” Actually, it does. But the respondents in that thread were nearly universally opposed to free speech, because it involved a gadol.
So to keep a uniformly applied law, where would you place the limits, if any, of freedom of speech?