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"Videos on social media showed men running through the streets beating Israelis and shooting fireworks at them. “Gaza!” a man lighting firecrackers yells in one clip. “Now you know how it feels.” A Dutch blog posted screenshots from a WhatsApp group showing people discussing a “Jew hunt” before the assaults.

But some Dutch Jews noted that roving bands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights marauding through the city center chanting racist anti-Arab slogans, climbing a facade to rip a Palestinian flag off the second story of an apartment building and assaulting a Moroccan taxi driver.

Jelle Ziljstra, who is Jewish and works as a community organizer in Amsterdam, made a post that went viral on Instagram stating that “multiple truths can exist at the same time.” It highlighted both the assaults on Israelis and footage of the fans shouting “F— Palestine” the night before.

“There was definitely antisemitism involved in some of the events that took place,” Ziljstra said in an interview. “Were Jews attacked in the streets? Yes, but those Jews were also violent hooligans.”"

https://forward.com/news/673303/dutch-jews-israeli-attack-politics-antisemitism/

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Marsha Blackburn is out on Twitter literally trying to get Rashida Tlaib killed. I won’t spread her incitement to murder but she’s trying to claim Tlaib is Hamas.

I’d like to see the same concern about #antiMuslim & #antiArab bigotry that I think we should have about #antisemitism.

They are both vicious and wrong, and both are used by the Republican fascist party. They use them both as thin edges of a wedge that aims to split Democrats and the left, so they can win permanent power in 2024.

@RitchieTorres

Re: The censure of #RashidaTlaib

Where's your condemnation of #JoshGottheimer (d-#NJ), #BrianMast (Republican), and the rest of the #racist, #AntiArab, #Islamophobic and #antiPalestinian kooks in the House?!!!

FUCK YOU!

#PalestinianLivesMatter🇵🇸

#RitchieTorresRESIGN!!!

William A. Dorman, writing in the compendium The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectives (1992), notes that whereas "anti-Semitism is no longer socially acceptable, at least among the educated classes[, n]o such social sanctions exist for anti-Arabism."

We're in a really strange moment where we're very quick to point out antisemitism in some of the criticism of Israel, but not anti-Arabism in Israel's policies.

#antisemitism #bigotry #racism #antiarab #gaza #israel