Washington DC: Jewish businesses
The Apostate Prophet:
Proof this was planned:
Justifying the ‘Jew Hunt’
An important ideological convergence is taking place in the wake of the Amsterdam football pogrom, demonstrating a timeless characteristic of Jew-hatred: It has no permanent political home – hatred of the “wandering Jew” is itself a wandering phenomenon…
This is what the counternarrative surrounding Amsterdam is doing. And it’s edifying to see the counternarrative crafted and released into the air vents in real time…
And yet we also know that you cannot grant the worst possible interpretation of Maccabi fans’ actions. For example, we now know that the small number of Israelis who picked up sticks or other makeshift weapons had done so because they were set upon by organized attackers.
We now know that taxi drivers were not victims of Israeli abuse but rather were the ringleaders of what the pogromists referred to as the planned “Jew hunt.”
We now know the disingenuous nature of the accusation that random Jews deserved to be stabbed because some Maccabi fans interrupted a moment of silence for victims of a flood in Spain: The announcer was speaking in Dutch, which only one team’s fans in the stadium could understand.
We now know [source: WSJ] that the rumor that Israelis were disruptive at a casino is false and that what actually happened is that an employee of the casino alerted the pogromist organizers to the Israelis’ location so they could be hunted….
So we’re left with a video of some Maccabi fans singing an anti-Arab chant as they’re being escorted by police away from crowds that taunt them and which the police assume will get into a violent confrontation with the Israelis…
There is a sociopathic element to their justifications… And history is littered with them. In 1881, Jews in Alexandria were accused of kidnapping and killing a Greek child in a ritual murder – the classic blood libel…
But its usefulness as revisionist history pales in comparison to its main, forward-looking purpose. Namely, to cause the instinctive reaction to any event of mass violence against Jews to be the assumption that they must have done something to deserve it.
This is what the counternarrative surrounding Amsterdam is doing. And it’s edifying to see the counternarrative crafted and released into the air vents in real time.
I think about what we have in common, which is our love, our consciousness, our attention, our dependence on God by whatever name. Often when we point out another’s ills we’re invited to be angry at them and to feel superior to them.
If we stay balanced and loving what is, beyond the drama, then we directly see what’s out of balance and understand it. We don’t react to it even if it’s violent or unconscious. If we’re in the drama we’re contributing to it. Beyond the drama is non-separation.