Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zionazi Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.recordings Subject: Amsterdamned: The shame of Femke Halsema Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:04:35 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <5eaca74c72da20659821c88a2f754af4@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="426747"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="eF/RVKLh6aEp9s+BK8BYt5fEoUMxZQLVFJ5zi19LlgQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: b8ea6db213d7f55d7e0ffe462de55ace7b9a5d91 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$GJR8vf310ap.3iZ3heWE/.FWrU2sAEe0zox3fhEAiyWkRPWuoS/g2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 3421 Lines: 46 „In the arsenal of the antisemite, denial is a key weapon. Six million Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust? Didn’t happen. The Soviet Union persecuted its Jewish population in the name of anti-Zionism? Zionist propaganda. Rape and mutilation were rampant during the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023? What a smear upon the noble resistance of Hamas. And so on. No surprise, then, that the left-wing mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, is now publicly regretting her use of the word “pogrom” in her summation of the shocking antisemitic violence unleashed by Arab and Muslim gangs in the Dutch city in the wake of the soccer match between local giants Ajax and visitors Maccabi Tel Aviv two weeks ago.“ „One day after the violence, Halsema noted that “boys on scooters crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli football fans, it was a hit and run. I understand very well that this brings back the memory of pogroms.”“ „A few days later, she rolled back her initial comments. “I must say that in the following days, I saw how the word ‘pogrom’ became very political and actually became propaganda,” she stated in an interview with Dutch media. “The Israeli government, talking about a Palestinian pogrom in the streets of Amsterdam. In The Hague, the word pogrom is mainly used to discriminate against Moroccan Amsterdammers, Muslims. I didn’t mean it that way. And I didn’t want it that way.”“ „Halsema’s discomfort does not, of course, mean that what happened in Amsterdam was not a pogrom. Nor does she speak for the entirety of the Dutch political class. Both the center-right VVD Party and the further-right PVV Party, for example, continue to describe the violence as a pogrom and have suggested strong measures for countering further outrages targeting local Jews and visiting Israelis.“ „What you will realize, however, is that Halsema is terrified of being labeled “Islamophobic.” That explains her pleas for understanding for a bunch of Moroccan thugs who express contempt not just for Israel but for the country that has provided them a sanctuary with housing, education and many other benefits.“ „To her eternal shame, Halsema is now trafficking in this noxious idea while presiding over a city in which no Jew can now feel safe, less than a century after their ancestors were rounded up and deported by the German occupiers. She should resign.“ Ben Cohen https://www.jns.org/amsterdamned-the-shame-of-femke-halsema/