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   The ‘Jew hunt’ in Amsterdam was no anomaly   
   Antisemitism, the great evil that Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned of, has   
   spread across the globe.   
   By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated November 13, 2024, 3:00 a.m.   
      
      
   Three days after a "Jew hunting" attack in Amsterdam, protesters in the   
   city clashed with police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Nov. 10.   
   Three days after a "Jew hunting" attack in Amsterdam, protesters in the   
   city clashed with police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Nov.   
   10.WAHAJ BANI MOUFLEH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images   
   The first recorded pogrom in history occurred in first-century Egypt,   
   when lethal mobs in Alexandria, encouraged by the Roman prefect Aulus   
   Avilius Flaccus, savagely attacked the city’s Jews. In the words of an   
   eyewitness, the renowned philosopher Philo, the mobs were merciless,   
   “sparing neither age nor youth, nor the innocent helplessness of infants.”   
   In Amsterdam Thursday, hundreds of attackers, carrying out a “Jew hunt”   
   planned hours earlier on social media, targeted Israeli tourists who had   
   traveled to the Netherlands for a soccer match. In violence that was   
   “terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom,” according to Deborah   
   Lipstadt, the historian, diplomat, and current US envoy on antisemitism,   
   the assailants shouted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans while   
   they ambushed, beat, and chased the visiting Israelis. Much of the   
   violence was recorded on video and posted online. One witness told   
   Israel’s Channel 12 TV that the attackers were organized “like a terror   
   group” and waited for the Jewish tourists “with clubs and knives. … They   
   didn’t distinguish between women, children, men, or the elderly.”   
   In the 20 centuries between Alexandria and Amsterdam, Jews have faced   
   bloody assaults almost everywhere they have settled. There were pogroms   
   in Spain and in Syria, in the Rhineland and in Russia, in Turkey and in   
   Tunisia. The antisemitic violence in Amsterdam occurred one day before   
   the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom against the   
   Jews of Germany and Austria that foreshadowed the coming Holocaust. It   
   was also the anniversary of the United Nations’ poisonous 1975   
   resolution falsely labeling Zionism — the movement for Jewish   
   sovereignty in the Jewish homeland — “a form of racism and racial   
   discrimination.”   
   Unlike most of history’s antisemitic rampages, no one was killed by   
   Amsterdam’s Jew-hunting mobs, and government officials expressed   
   revulsion and shame. “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands   
   during World War II,” said King Willem-Alexander, “and last night we   
   failed again.” The king was referring to the hundreds of thousands of   
   Dutch citizens who collaborated with Nazi Germany, when more than 75   
   percent of the country’s Jews — by far the highest percentage in Western   
   Europe — were murdered in the Holocaust. Today, unlike then, there is a   
   state of Israel with the ability to assist endangered Jews. Within a day   
   of Thursday’s brutality, six El Al planes were being dispatched to   
   evacuate the Israeli tourists. Observed The Wall Street Journal: “Jews   
   are again fleeing the city where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis.”   
   The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, acknowledged that the anti-Jewish   
   riot brought back “memories of pogroms” and called it “an outburst of   
   antisemitism that I hope to never see again.” She will not be so   
   fortunate. Since Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed in   
   the Netherlands. Thousands of chanting protesters disrupted the opening   
   of a Holocaust museum in March, throwing eggs, igniting fireworks, and   
   waving Palestinian flags. The Anne Frank monument in Amsterdam has   
   repeatedly been defaced. “It is now normal for Jews to be screamed at on   
   the street,” the country’s chief rabbi told a reporter in April. “It’s   
   more and more antisemitic.”   
   Everywhere is more and more antisemitic.   
   What happened in Amsterdam is just the latest reminder that for Jews,   
   safety and tolerance are never permanent. Sooner or later the   
   antisemitic derangement revives, usually with fearful results. It is as   
   close to an immutable law of history as anything can be. For some   
   decades after the Holocaust, when the open expression of Jew-hatred   
   became taboo in the civilized world, it was possible to imagine that   
   that “law” had been repealed. But the idyll is over. Hostility toward   
   Jews and the Jewish state has become fashionable — especially among the   
   young. On the far left and the far right, on university campuses and the   
   internet, in Europe and the Middle East and North America, antisemitism   
   has again become mainstream.   
   Daniel Patrick Moynihan saw it coming. Addressing the UN General   
   Assembly after its notorious Zionism-is-racism vote 49 years ago this   
   week, the US ambassador declared that the United States “does not   
   acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this   
   infamous act.” The UN, he said, had done something shameful and obscene.   
   It had given “the appearance of international sanction” to the   
   “abomination of antisemitism.” Moynihan foresaw that “the terrible lie   
   that has been told here today will have terrible consequences.”   
   It was with prophetic accuracy that he warned: “A great evil has been   
   loosed upon the world.” Nearly half a century later, the effects of that   
   evil are ubiquitous. Around the world Jews are again the object of   
   savagery and hate, threatened and demonized and attacked as they haven’t   
   been since the 1930s, hunted in the streets of cities that take pride in   
   being enlightened. What happened in Amsterdam was no anomaly. Pogroms   
   are coming back.   
      
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