By blvdone @Adobe Stock
Call It What You Will
NRO recounts a short story on Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and their sons. In the same article, Jay Nordlinger also discusses the “widespread coordinated” attacks in Amsterdam by young men of Middle Eastern origin against local Ajax Israeli soccer fans.
A “Jew hunt,” is what some of the attackers called it — called what they were engaged in. The hunters were young men of Middle Eastern origin. In the mayhem, no one was killed, but dozens were injured, five of them hospitalized. Dutch police arrested more than 60.
Mayor Halsema got cold feet about her use of the word “pogroms.” She took it back (as you can read here). “I saw how the word ‘pogrom’ has turned very political — into propaganda, in fact.”
According to the Israeli Times:
“Before the match, Maccabi fans burned a Palestinian flag, attacked a taxi and chanted anti-Arab slogans, according to Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla. Footage of the incidents was widely circulated on social media.”
Never Again
Jay Nordinger asks, “You know who was noble — even royal — in all this?”
King Willem-Alexander, who placed a phone call to Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, the day after the mayhem, the “hunt” — whatever you choose to call it. “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II,” he said, “and last night we failed again.”
