Pogroms in Amsterdam where jews are thrown into rivers in 5⁰C weather and forced to yell slogans to be allowed out. Where jews are beaten bloody and forced to say they're not Jewish for the beating to stop. Where jews are run over by cars. Where jews are forced to hide in hotels as people who want to lynch them storm in. Where law enforcement does nothing and drives right past jews being hunted in the streets.
The protests didn't cause this, right? The violent rhetoric didn't cause this. The active celebration of a massacre didn't cause this. The constant dehumanization and belittlement of Jewish suffering didn't cause this. The lionization of murderers like Nasrallah and Sinwar didn't cause this. The encampments didn't cause this. The historical revisionism and the complete ignorance about the Holocaust didn't cause this. The apathy towards rising antisemitism didn't cause this. Constant deflections and gaslighting when jews tried to speak out about their fears didn't cause this. Accusations of genocide didn't cause this. Comparisons between jews and nazis didn't cause this. Normalized violence against jews under the guise of antizionism didn't cause this. The appropriation and the downplaying of the Holocaust didn't cause this. ALL OF THIS didn't cause this pogrom in Amsterdam on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, right?!?
Go fuck yourselves, all of you who participated in any of the above, or ignored us when we told you where it was all headed. WE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO DO THIS. BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE IT IN EVERY GENERATION AND YOU NEVER LEARN
it wasn’t enough when a Jewish student at Berkley was choked, slammed into a wall, and spit on. It wasn’t enough when Jewish students in Los Angeles were attacked so severely they were put in the hospital. it wasn’t enough when an American Jewish woman was murdered outside her home, or when a pro-Palestine protester murdered an elderly Jewish man with a bullhorn in broad daylight in California, when Orthodox Jews in New York were stabbed in the streets and rammed with cars. it wasn’t enough when a 12 year old Jewish girl was gang raped in France, it wasn’t enough when a French Jewish woman was kidnapped and raped. and, it certainly wasn’t enough when over 1200 Israelis, Jewish and not, were tortured, raped, and murdered in their beds, in the streets, at a festival, terrified, hiding in basements, bomb shelters, running for their lives, watching their loved ones get stolen away to Gaza to be beaten, raped, held hostage, and enslaved.
i saw no condemnations. perhaps because in their minds, from Diaspora to Homeland, Jewish suffering is meaningless- or worse: deserved.
i don’t know how else to explain what i am seeing.
