WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Violent attacks targeting Jews took place in
Amsterdam on Thursday evening
following a soccer match that left a number of Israelis
wounded. Antisemitic mobs hunted down dozens of Israeli soccer
fans who had traveled to Amsterdam
to watch Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv play in the Dutch
capital, some of whom were violently run down, beaten, and stabbed,
leaving five Israelis hospitalized.
Following the attacks, the government of Israel dispatched planes to the Netherlands to evacuate Israelis at risk
back to Israel and urged those
staying to remain in their hotels and not wear any visible signs of
Jewish or Israeli identity on the street until they could return
safely.
All this, about a year after the greatest violence against Jews
since the Holocaust on October 7 when
Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel, murdering, torturing, burning alive,
raping and dismembering pregnant women and babies in front of their
families. Sadly, these unspeakable crimes against some 1200 Jews, a
number equivalent to more than 35,000 Americans, have stimulated
many in America and the West to protest and demonstrate on Hamas'
behalf.
On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of
pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories.
This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken
Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets
after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses,
synagogues, and homes. The attacks against Jews in Amsterdam took place on November 7, two days before the anniversary of
Kristallnacht.
Congressman Don Ritter, Founding
Chairman of The Remembrance Society, stated: "The 'Pogrom' of
hatred and violence perpetrated against Jews in the Netherlands last night brought to mind the
historic National Socialist Party (Nazi) violence against the
Jewish people. Nazism, Fascism, Communism and Radical Islam share
common ground in their respective versions of totalitarian
ideology. All demand complete subservience of the individual to a
faith posited to achieve a greater good for all. They all condone,
indeed promote, violence as a means to achieve that 'greater good'.
The Remembrance Society is dedicated to better educating and
communicating the horrors of totalitarian ideologies and their
destructive impact on people, peace and progress."
According to data compiled by The Remembrance
Society experts, between 1933-1945, an estimated 16
million people were murdered (not including those killed in battle)
by the Nazis including 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. The
history of totalitarianism in the twentieth century is too little
known in the West. This is why educating students and commemorating
the victims is so important. Knowledge of the crimes of past
totalitarian tyrants can be an important barrier to future
dictators seeking unlimited power without concern for the human
cost of their ambitions.
Kristina Olney, Founding
Executive Director of The Remembrance Society, stated: "It is
unfathomable that a pogrom the likes of which were seen in 1930s
Germany has happened again in
Europe. We condemn in the
strongest terms the violent antisemitic attacks that took place,
and urge the vigilance of the governments of Europe and the international community against
a resurgence of this evil ideology. The Remembrance
Society believes that the best way to prevent the horrors
of the twentieth century from being repeated is to advance
knowledge of the history and ideology of totalitarianism and we are
dedicated to achieving this and to exposing the crimes of
totalitarianism in all its evil forms."
Please direct any media inquiries
to info@remembrancesociety.org or (202) 355-9422.
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