Following the pogrom in the Netherlands, during which Muslim mobs waving Palestinian flags hunted down Jews in Amsterdam, Paris police are preparing to prevent a similar occurrence from happening at the upcoming Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) game, as France plays Israel.
Paris Deploys over 4,000 Police to France-Israel Soccer Match after Antisemitic Attacks in Amsterdam
France and Israel are playing in a UEFA Nations League match on Thursday.
“There’s a context, tensions that make that match a high-risk event for us,” Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez said on French news broadcaster BFM TV, adding authorities “won’t tolerate” any violence.
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau confirmed Friday that the France-Israel match would go ahead as planned.
“I think that for a symbolic reason we must not yield, we must not give up,” he said, noting that sports fans from around the world came together for the Paris Olympics this year to celebrate the “universal values” of sports.
There are Muslims on the police force in Amsterdam. They refuse to be assigned to guard the Holocaust Museum.
It appears that the police are part of the problem.
UN top dog Guterres condemns ‘antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry’ after Amsterdam pogrom
What “anti-Muslim bigotry”? Even if the unconfirmed reports that the Israeli fans were chanting “anti-Arab slogans,” there are no claims anywhere that I’ve been able to find that any “anti-Muslim bigotry” was involved in the slightest degree as Muslims hunted down and attacked Jews in Amsterdam.
And they were going after Jews as such, not just Israelis. Here is one of the attackers saying that he is going on a “jodenjacht,” that is, a “Jew hunt.”