“Thanks to the Mayor of Amsterdam, we were able to beat up all those Zionists”

With the silent approval Amsterdam’s far-left mayor, Femke Halsema, a dangerous alliance of Muslim terrorists and far-left extremists turned the city’s streets into a hunting ground for Jews, where they had the freedom to “unleash violence and brutally beat up Jews without any consequences.”

RAIR Foundation An Albanian-Dutch Muslim man in a viral TikTok video hailed her as “the only real gangster in Amsterdam,” who allowed groups of predominantly Moroccan and Turkish Muslims to targeted Jewish individuals, including Israeli football fans, in a disturbing hunt across the city that spanned several hours.

He begins his video with, “Homies, I want to give a big fat shout-out to Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam. She is currently THE HERO of every (Muslim) homie who lives in this country without you knowing it.

The man attributes the ability to attack Israeli supporters to Halsema’s tacit complicity, claiming she “made it possible for so many of us to beat up the Zionists.” He insists that her public opposition is merely a façade, which she performs to avoid criticism, while secretly sympathizing with those responsible for the attacks. had Halsema wanted to protect the Israeli fans; the authorities would have locked down the entire city. Halsema’s inaction enabled attackers to evade law enforcement.

JNS Last week’s pogrom in Amsterdam was conducted by groups of Muslim men and taxi drivers who carefully planned a Hamas-like Oct. 7 rampage against civilian Israelis who had come to Amsterdam to watch a soccer game.

According to Leon de Winter, a Dutch author and journalist writing inThe Wall Street Journal, “Today there are about 20,000 Jews in Amsterdam and 40,000 in the whole country. By contrast, there are roughly 1 million Muslims in the Netherlands … about 90,000 Muslims live in Amsterdam.”

We know that the Netherlands is the country that gave the largest percentage of its Jews over to Hitler, more than any other European country. Out of a pre-war total of 80,000 Jews, 64,000 Dutch Jews—80%—were murdered by the Nazis

Let’s not forget the assassination in 2004 of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by Moroccan-Dutch Islamist Mohamed Bouyeri, who was born in Holland and whose hit list included Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian. He stabbed a five-page note into Van Gogh’s body, which he addressed to Ali, who he called a “heretic” and a willing collaborator of “Zionists and Crusaders.” 

De Winter wrote that the violence that took place overnight Nov. 7-8 “emerged from deep-seated, historically entrenched antisemitism.” He also noted that “Moroccan youth have participated in weekly anti-Zionist demonstrations through the streets of Amsterdam.”

Let’s be clear on this: Only Israel rescued the Jews under siege in Amsterdam last week. The Dutch government did not do so, nor did any neighboring European country. The world’s “peaceniks” and the United Nations were nowhere in sight.

What happened in Amsterdam reflects what has happened to Jews historically in Europe and throughout the Muslim world. Israel has not caused this Jew-hatred. Israel is, in fact, the only rational response to antisemitism. It is the height of madness to demand that there be no Jewish state or for Jews to willingly negotiate for an even smaller, almost tiny, part of the land in which we are the indigenous people, a people who have now returned to our inheritance.