'Amsterdam riots were not pogrom,' mayor says, defending Muslim population

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 20:50:48 | Updated at 2024-11-24 02:24:34 5 days ago

'Amsterdam riots were not pogrom,' mayor says, defending Muslim population
Jerusalem Post ^ | 18/11/24 | Yuval Barnea

Posted on 11/18/2024 12:47:50 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Amsterdam Mayor Femka Halsema said she regretted calling the riots in Amsterdam a “pogrom” because this was being used to discriminate against the Moroccan-Muslim population of the city, Dutch media reported on Monday.

The riots that erupted following an Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv game led to mass violence throughout the city. Large groups attacked people they suspected were Jewish or Israeli, often demanding to see their identification to confirm their ethnicity.

In an interview with Dutch state media NOS, Halsema said that she would not use the term “pogrom” to describe the events again and that it was wrong to do so initially.

At first, she said at the press conference immediately following the riots that “young men on scooters crisscrossed the city looking for Israeli football fans. It was a ‘hit-and-run.’ I fully understand that this brings back memories of pogroms.”

She backtracked on these comments...and that she was merely trying to empathize with Jewish Amsterdammers.

However, Halsema said during a debate in the city council last Tuesday, before the most recent interview, that she still fully supported the use of the term “pogrom.” She admitted that the city’s municipality, police, and Public Prosecution Service had not succeeded in keeping the city safe.

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Pogrom' was Israeli propaganda She accused the Israeli government and Dutch national politicians of using the term as propaganda to attack the Muslim community in Amsterdam.

“If I had known that it would be used politically in this way, and also as propaganda... I want nothing to do with that,” Halsema said.

“The Israeli government spoke of a ‘Palestinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam,’ and in The Hague, the words were used to discriminate against Moroccan Amsterdammers – Muslims. That is not what I meant or what I wanted.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; European Union; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amsterdamn; dinkins; femkahalsema; pogrom

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Just because police sat around and allowed rioters to hunt down and attack Jooos! does not mean it was a pogrom. That's just propaganda from the Jooos! to justify being mean to Muslims, who are the real victims here.

Brings back memories of Crown Heights and David Dinkins quibbling with the term. But he at least refrained from turning it into an anti-Jewish trope.

1 posted on 11/18/2024 12:47:50 PM PST by Eleutheria5

To: Eleutheria5

Somebody did something. It was mostly peaceful. Let’s root for the Bad Guys.

2 posted on 11/18/2024 12:49:34 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

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