Sunday 10 March 2024

Amsterdam Holocaust Museum Protests

I am so glad that the protesters demonstrating outside the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam were at pains to point out that they were protesting against the presence of the Israeli President Isaac Herzog and not the museum and what it commemorates.
Also desperate to make their presence known was the Dutch Jewish group called Erev Rave who organised the protest and stood alongside those waving Palestinian flags and signs that said 'Jews against genocide' and 'Stop Gaza Holocaust'.
'For us Jews, these museums are part of our history, of our past' said one Jewish demonstrator addressing the crowd at the ceremony, adding 'How is it possible that such a sacred space is being used to normalise genocide today?'
Addressing the inauguration of the museum, Mr Herzog said: 'Remember the horrors born of hatred, antisemitism and racism. And never again allow them to flourish. Unfortunately, 'never again' is right now. Because right now, hatred and antisemitism are flourishing worldwide, and we must fight it, together' which seems to be a magnificent attempt at redirection considering that the top United Nations court earlier this year condemned Israel for inflicting on Gazan's, what comes under the Genocide banner.
Israel is quickly losing any friends it had with even America, who has a history of covering for Israeli awfulness, is beginning to grow wary of standing too close to the nation who has killed over 30,000 Palestinians and continues to collectively punish 2m people while it attempts to forcibly remove the
Palestinians in an attempt to fulfill it's pledge that Israel rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.

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