Thousands of pro-Hamas Muslim protesters converged on Amsterdam on Sunday as the Dutch city unveiled the National Holocaust Museum in a ceremony attended by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Breitbart (h/t Georgina D) Riot police were forced to be deployed to hold back over 2,000 anti-Israel protesters as they attempted to march on the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam during the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum.
Demonstrators were seen waving Palestinian flags, carrying signs accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza, and calling for Israeli President Herzog to be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported. Clashes with the police were also witnessed, while some activists were seen climbing on top of police vehicles.
Politie accepteert op het Waterlooplein niet meer dat demonstranten op busjes klimmen #Holocaustmuseum pic.twitter.com/qxDCLrpr97
— Marcel Vink (@marcelvink888) March 10, 2024
According to the De Telegraaf newspaper, the activists also took to shooting fireworks and throwing eggs at the police. They also were seen plastering stickers on police vans with the face of Herzog with the text “wanted”.
King Willem-Alexander, who gave a speech at the opening ceremony held at the synagogue, was booed as he officially opened the museum’s building.
During his speech, the Israeli president invoked World War II, saying that too many people in the Netherlands stood by as Jews were being gathered up to be exterminated. However, Herzog also praised the courage of the people who resisted the Nazis, recounting an instance of two Dutch citizens who risked their lives by hiding Jews.
Herzog said that after the war, the Jews housed by the Dutch later moved to Israel and that their grandson died fighting to protect the Jewish state.
Sommige demonstranten richten hun woede op politiebusjes #Holocaustmuseum pic.twitter.com/lMy3fJIriA
— Marcel Vink (@marcelvink888) March 10, 2024
The Israeli president’s presence at the unveiling of the museum drew the ire of local activists, who accused him of war crimes over his country’s military response to the October 7th terror attacks, in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered around 1,200 people in Israel and took hundreds more captive.
Emile Schrijver, the head Jewish Cultural Quarter, which the museum belongs to, said that while he understood some of the criticism against Israel, he did not “want to exclude all those people who this museum is about. This museum is about the murder of Dutch Jews.”
Schrijver noted that Herzog, as president of Israel, represents thousands of Jews who hailed from the Netherlands before moving to Israel after the Second World War, adding: “There are still 800 Holocaust survivors living in Israel and we want those people to feel represented.”
Sure, leftist & Muslum Nazis aren’t protesting the Museum of Holocaust that was opening that day.
Muslums have said many times that in their opinion, they wish Hitler had been successful in his mission to wipe out all Jews. It is a sore point among them.
I’d like to know why the Jews won’t fight back? They need to give a beat down to these low bred heathens….
Islam is a 1400-year-old scum sucking Muhammadian terrorist cult.
In my view, what these ‘pro Hamas’ demonstrators are is vicious left wing fanatics. The left hates and fear freedom and individual rights (FAIR) as do followers of Islam. Both try to destroy FAIR wherever they find them which is why the left allies themselves with FOI. The anti Semitism of the left covers their real purpose which is to establish a socialist police state world wide. Frankly as a non Jew who supports Israel, I feel sorry for any Jew who votes for or supports the left wing (or the Democrats here in America) because they are nurturing those who would destroy them. To put it bluntly, in my view, Jews who support the left wing (or the Democrats in America) are being the ‘useful idiots’ that Lenin observed would help the communists achieve world wide tyranny.
That’s exactly right. These self-hating Jews are their own worst enemy.
The animals are beyond disgusting. I have visited the Anne Frank House and I came away with a feeling of sadness that people could treat people the way the NATZIs treated the Jewish people. For these NATZI subhuman creatures called Islamists to try to destroy such a solemn occasion completely despicable.
I used the Breitbart version of this story. Other media tried to claim they weren’t protesting the Holocaust victims, just their descendants who live in Israel. 😡