Yes, what you are writing about has become normalized. It seems that this antisemitism is a required uniform for most progressives. But this has been going on for years, sometimes in more subtle ways. The great Dara Horn has written about how "people love dead Jews." She started thinking about this when she read about the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. They actually hired a Jewish fellow to work there. Imagine that. But then he showed up to work wearing a kippah, and they were horrified. They told him he couldn't wear such a thing or he at least had to hide it under a baseball cap. Yup. Hiding the Jew in the Anne Frank House.
Yes, she brilliantly skewered that situation: “The museum finally relented after deliberating for four months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding.”
With the *possible* exception of the N. K. (Neturei Karta), who are the Jews' answer to Westboro Baptists (of "G-d hates fags" fame), all anti-Zionists are antisemites. If you don't believe the Jews shoul have a homeland, then you don't want Kews to be safe. Full stop.
Love your typos just makes me want to shout “as a Kew” there I said it. Rage makes me do strange things how about Peter Styvestant trying to rid New Amsterdam of the migrating Brazilian Jews in the 1600’s only to find out that several of the directors of the company he worked for were juice 2. Uh uh Peter now looks like the city with the largest chewish population in deh wereld will have a slamist for a mayor how wonderful and diverse. Yech.
"....as affirmed by numerous analyses of the International Court of Justice, human rights organisations, and UN rapporteurs"
Ah, yes, they must be referring to the completely unbiased prosecutors at the ICJ (just like the U.N. is unbiased, right?), Amnesty International (because Ken Roth just oh-so-loves Israel), the Red Cross (still waiting for it to visit ANY hostages) , and finally, Jew-hater extraordinaire Francesca Albanese, whose loathing of anything/everything Israeli knows no end.
The ICC, not the ICJ, issued warrants for arrest for "war crimes" following the applications made by Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, who has since stepped down due to the allegations of sexual harassment / rape by another lawyer working for the ICC. It is alleged that Khan asked the complainant to keep his conduct to herself "because Palestine".
As regards the ICJ, the matter of IDF conduct was brought to the court with jurisdiction for allegations of genocide by South Africa, barely three months into the war. The ICJ only found in its interim ruling of January 26, 2024 that Gazans may have a "plausible right to protection" as carefully explained by then president of the panel of judges, US judge Joan Donahue, who retired shortly after. That same interim ruling directed Hamas to release all the hostages dragged into Gaza on that day that should live in infamy "immediately and without condition". The ICJ is currently presided over by acting president Julia Sebutinde of Uganda, who actually experienced genocide in Idi Amin's Uganda when she was young, and Sebutinde was extremely critical of South Africa's application, writing the dissenting opinion, in which she urged South Africa to use its influence on Hamas to release the hostages.
Ken Roth ran HRW, not Amnesty International, until he retired around two years ago to go take up a fellowship at an Ivy League university, Harvard, I believe. Agnes Callamard is the Amnesty boss. Both NGOs are deeply biased against Israel, but so far as I am aware, it's only Amnesty that has started to campaign to redefine "genocide". (Both use a watered down definition of "apartheid" to condemn Israel.)
Indeed it can, and should. And let's not forget that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorist groups (including Hamas), and displays savage intolerance for minority, women's and LGBTQ rights. Yet it serves on the UN's Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Committee, and as leader (yes, LEADER) of the Asia-Pacific Group within the UN Human Rights Council. That's the same UN that for decades has condemned Israel more than all other countries combined.
A peril of "democracy" at the UN and similar institutions: "one country, one vote" means Israel gets one vote, while the Islamic world with its automatic anti-Jew setting gets something like 50, plus all the hangers-on who don't want to jeopardise their oil purchases or dairy product sales, or have just succumbed to the massive anti-Jewish PR machine.
British author Howard Jacobson contends that Europeans are angry at the Jews because the Jews, by surviving, remind Europeans of their role in carrying out the Holocaust. Modern Europeans would like to think of themselves as enlightened and morally upstanding, but the continued existence of Jews shows them that they can't relax into a sense of superiority. So, the theory goes, Europeans project their sins onto Israel, holding it to an exacting standard applied to no other country, and disproportionately blaming it for real or imagined misdeeds, hoping thereby to convey that the Jews are as bad or worse than Europeans have been. The more Europeans want to see themselves as moral, the more the memory of the Holocaust casts its shadow over them, hence the more they have to blame the Jews for everything. In a perverse sense, the Europeans are therefore blaming the Jews for the Holocaust. And that's where we get the outrageous claims of Israel deliberately killing children, Israel selling the organs of dead Palestinians, Israel being irredeemably racist, Israel committing apartheid, and now, worst of all, Israel committing genocide.
Having loved Amsterdam during my first visit in May, it is disheartening to have the current Dutch attitude toward Israel and Jews reiterated. We already knew about what is going there since the football pogrom in November, but were fortunate not to have any firsthand experience with it ourselves. I second the recommendation of the Jewish Museum, and also caution you that the crowds in the more popular museums can make it impossible to enjoy the art. I recommend finding small, out-of-the-way alternatives if you can. Safe travels!
"At Wereldmuseum, we look with horror and grief at the ongoing human suffering and the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza. Once again, we call for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages. We see it as our mission to contribute to a more just and equitable society for everyone. We speak out against the genocidal violence committed by the Israeli state against Palestinians in Gaza, as affirmed by numerous analyses of the International Court of Justice, human rights organisations, and UN rapporteurs."
1) Does Wereldmusseum's reference to "all hostages" mean only those persons who were dragged, dead or alive and severely injured, into Gaza under the "auspices" of the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, or does it include Palestinians in Israeli jails who were duly convicted of serious, violent crimes, under administrative detention as believed to be highly likely to commit violent acts or incite them, or the Gazans taken into custody and now awaiting trial for acts they are alleged to have committed inside Israel on or after October 7, 2023. I ask this as persons such as Amnesty Canada's former Secretary General Alex Neve used the term "captives" during an interview on CBC Radio's Metro Morning a few weeks back to refer to both hostages being held in Gaza and Palestinians being held by Israeli authorities with some considerable justification?
2) The International Court of Justice has not made any finding of the IDF committing genocide, only that there may be a plausible case for the protection of Gazans. The case made by South Africa in its application is so weak that the Republic of Ireland, in joining the application, asked the court to redefine "genocide" and Amnesty International has jumped onto the redefinition bandwagon. Not sure about HRW or any other usual suspect NGOs. Arguably, the folks who should be in the dock for genocide are the ayatollahs of Iran and the IRGC, plus Hamas and Hezbollah, who have actually shown genocidal intent, but the war that Hamas instigated with funding and "practical support" just didn't unfold the way the late Yahya Sinwar, the late Ismail Haniyeh, the late Hassan Nazrallah, Ayatollah Khameni and various Iranian officials envisaged.
It's been said by Howard Jacobson among them, that the Jews cannot be forgiven the Holocaust (surviving it, that is), and Holland's record on protecting its Jewish citizens numbered among the worst, if I recall. So maybe there's more than a little element of this museum trying to "guilt-launder" Holland's reputation.
But does this museum have a Land Acknowledgement Statement posted which recognizes that they have co-opted their property from whichever indigenous people were there two thousand years ago? Germanic tribes, Celts, Norse? God forbid they don’t have one. Which I don’t imagine they do since all the priors are to some extent or another to be considered “ whites”. Still, without such a statement they risk falling behind in the social justice warrior sweepstakes to be awarded at the annual meeting of the Museum Organization Representatives of the Netherlands (MORONs).
Yes, what you are writing about has become normalized. It seems that this antisemitism is a required uniform for most progressives. But this has been going on for years, sometimes in more subtle ways. The great Dara Horn has written about how "people love dead Jews." She started thinking about this when she read about the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. They actually hired a Jewish fellow to work there. Imagine that. But then he showed up to work wearing a kippah, and they were horrified. They told him he couldn't wear such a thing or he at least had to hide it under a baseball cap. Yup. Hiding the Jew in the Anne Frank House.
You can't make this stuff up.
https://jwa.org/episode-69-dara-horn-people-love-dead-jews
Yes, she brilliantly skewered that situation: “The museum finally relented after deliberating for four months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding.”
Infuriating, but not surprising.
With the *possible* exception of the N. K. (Neturei Karta), who are the Jews' answer to Westboro Baptists (of "G-d hates fags" fame), all anti-Zionists are antisemites. If you don't believe the Jews shoul have a homeland, then you don't want Kews to be safe. Full stop.
Love your typos just makes me want to shout “as a Kew” there I said it. Rage makes me do strange things how about Peter Styvestant trying to rid New Amsterdam of the migrating Brazilian Jews in the 1600’s only to find out that several of the directors of the company he worked for were juice 2. Uh uh Peter now looks like the city with the largest chewish population in deh wereld will have a slamist for a mayor how wonderful and diverse. Yech.
"....as affirmed by numerous analyses of the International Court of Justice, human rights organisations, and UN rapporteurs"
Ah, yes, they must be referring to the completely unbiased prosecutors at the ICJ (just like the U.N. is unbiased, right?), Amnesty International (because Ken Roth just oh-so-loves Israel), the Red Cross (still waiting for it to visit ANY hostages) , and finally, Jew-hater extraordinaire Francesca Albanese, whose loathing of anything/everything Israeli knows no end.
This museum can go to hell.
The ICC, not the ICJ, issued warrants for arrest for "war crimes" following the applications made by Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, who has since stepped down due to the allegations of sexual harassment / rape by another lawyer working for the ICC. It is alleged that Khan asked the complainant to keep his conduct to herself "because Palestine".
As regards the ICJ, the matter of IDF conduct was brought to the court with jurisdiction for allegations of genocide by South Africa, barely three months into the war. The ICJ only found in its interim ruling of January 26, 2024 that Gazans may have a "plausible right to protection" as carefully explained by then president of the panel of judges, US judge Joan Donahue, who retired shortly after. That same interim ruling directed Hamas to release all the hostages dragged into Gaza on that day that should live in infamy "immediately and without condition". The ICJ is currently presided over by acting president Julia Sebutinde of Uganda, who actually experienced genocide in Idi Amin's Uganda when she was young, and Sebutinde was extremely critical of South Africa's application, writing the dissenting opinion, in which she urged South Africa to use its influence on Hamas to release the hostages.
Ken Roth ran HRW, not Amnesty International, until he retired around two years ago to go take up a fellowship at an Ivy League university, Harvard, I believe. Agnes Callamard is the Amnesty boss. Both NGOs are deeply biased against Israel, but so far as I am aware, it's only Amnesty that has started to campaign to redefine "genocide". (Both use a watered down definition of "apartheid" to condemn Israel.)
Indeed it can, and should. And let's not forget that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorist groups (including Hamas), and displays savage intolerance for minority, women's and LGBTQ rights. Yet it serves on the UN's Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Committee, and as leader (yes, LEADER) of the Asia-Pacific Group within the UN Human Rights Council. That's the same UN that for decades has condemned Israel more than all other countries combined.
It's the dystopian world of Orwell's 1984.
A peril of "democracy" at the UN and similar institutions: "one country, one vote" means Israel gets one vote, while the Islamic world with its automatic anti-Jew setting gets something like 50, plus all the hangers-on who don't want to jeopardise their oil purchases or dairy product sales, or have just succumbed to the massive anti-Jewish PR machine.
There is a great Jewish history and culture museum in Amsterdam I visited about 10 years ago.
https://jck.nl/en/location/jewish-museum
Honestly, I'm not sure how I've missed that on my previous visits. Thanks for the heads up. It's on my agenda for sure!
There are a LOT of Museums in Amsterdam!
Well, that's a good reason to have missed this! But I will fix that error on my next visit.
British author Howard Jacobson contends that Europeans are angry at the Jews because the Jews, by surviving, remind Europeans of their role in carrying out the Holocaust. Modern Europeans would like to think of themselves as enlightened and morally upstanding, but the continued existence of Jews shows them that they can't relax into a sense of superiority. So, the theory goes, Europeans project their sins onto Israel, holding it to an exacting standard applied to no other country, and disproportionately blaming it for real or imagined misdeeds, hoping thereby to convey that the Jews are as bad or worse than Europeans have been. The more Europeans want to see themselves as moral, the more the memory of the Holocaust casts its shadow over them, hence the more they have to blame the Jews for everything. In a perverse sense, the Europeans are therefore blaming the Jews for the Holocaust. And that's where we get the outrageous claims of Israel deliberately killing children, Israel selling the organs of dead Palestinians, Israel being irredeemably racist, Israel committing apartheid, and now, worst of all, Israel committing genocide.
Great observations, Pat! Thank you!
Having loved Amsterdam during my first visit in May, it is disheartening to have the current Dutch attitude toward Israel and Jews reiterated. We already knew about what is going there since the football pogrom in November, but were fortunate not to have any firsthand experience with it ourselves. I second the recommendation of the Jewish Museum, and also caution you that the crowds in the more popular museums can make it impossible to enjoy the art. I recommend finding small, out-of-the-way alternatives if you can. Safe travels!
You don't need me to tell you this Pat, but you got it 100% right.
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The old NAZI trick of repeating a lie until it is accepted as truth does work.
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And when you have close to 2 BILLION MUSLIMS participating in the re-telling, it is very effective.
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"At Wereldmuseum, we look with horror and grief at the ongoing human suffering and the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza. Once again, we call for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages. We see it as our mission to contribute to a more just and equitable society for everyone. We speak out against the genocidal violence committed by the Israeli state against Palestinians in Gaza, as affirmed by numerous analyses of the International Court of Justice, human rights organisations, and UN rapporteurs."
1) Does Wereldmusseum's reference to "all hostages" mean only those persons who were dragged, dead or alive and severely injured, into Gaza under the "auspices" of the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, or does it include Palestinians in Israeli jails who were duly convicted of serious, violent crimes, under administrative detention as believed to be highly likely to commit violent acts or incite them, or the Gazans taken into custody and now awaiting trial for acts they are alleged to have committed inside Israel on or after October 7, 2023. I ask this as persons such as Amnesty Canada's former Secretary General Alex Neve used the term "captives" during an interview on CBC Radio's Metro Morning a few weeks back to refer to both hostages being held in Gaza and Palestinians being held by Israeli authorities with some considerable justification?
2) The International Court of Justice has not made any finding of the IDF committing genocide, only that there may be a plausible case for the protection of Gazans. The case made by South Africa in its application is so weak that the Republic of Ireland, in joining the application, asked the court to redefine "genocide" and Amnesty International has jumped onto the redefinition bandwagon. Not sure about HRW or any other usual suspect NGOs. Arguably, the folks who should be in the dock for genocide are the ayatollahs of Iran and the IRGC, plus Hamas and Hezbollah, who have actually shown genocidal intent, but the war that Hamas instigated with funding and "practical support" just didn't unfold the way the late Yahya Sinwar, the late Ismail Haniyeh, the late Hassan Nazrallah, Ayatollah Khameni and various Iranian officials envisaged.
It's been said by Howard Jacobson among them, that the Jews cannot be forgiven the Holocaust (surviving it, that is), and Holland's record on protecting its Jewish citizens numbered among the worst, if I recall. So maybe there's more than a little element of this museum trying to "guilt-launder" Holland's reputation.
But does this museum have a Land Acknowledgement Statement posted which recognizes that they have co-opted their property from whichever indigenous people were there two thousand years ago? Germanic tribes, Celts, Norse? God forbid they don’t have one. Which I don’t imagine they do since all the priors are to some extent or another to be considered “ whites”. Still, without such a statement they risk falling behind in the social justice warrior sweepstakes to be awarded at the annual meeting of the Museum Organization Representatives of the Netherlands (MORONs).
Best not to go to the Netherlands.
Regretably, if we apply that standard, there aren't many places a decent person could go.
That's what antisemitism does.
Wonder if this should be sent to this museum???
Done. But maybe more than once ...? info@volkenkunde.nl
Done!
Done
Sigh