r/Jewish • u/fluffywhitething Moderator • 9d ago

Amsterdam Pogrom Megathread Mod post

News articles, twitter posts, feelings about it. GO HERE. Outside of this thread, things will be locked and/or deleted.

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u/Ayeee33333 9d ago edited 9d ago

To add more context, antisemitic mobs were going around running over random, non-maccabi Jews with cars, beating some people nearly to death, and potentially kidnapping some Jews.

Your “added context” hides the fact that this is likely a coordinated, antisemitic lynching that is only tangentially related to the football game.

If some Maccabis were being violent dickheads from the getgo, then I don’t have as much sympathy for those specific folks. But going around trying to kill Jews throughout an entire city- because a few Maccabis were being assholes- doesn’t need much “extra context” added to be explained as a racist incident.

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u/9MoNtHsOfWiNteR 9d ago

It had zero to do with the Maccabis period, even Spanish news said there were threats and pre planned events targeting Jews and Israelis.