From Kishinev to Amsterdam: Law Enforcement’s Role in Enabling Anti-Jewish Violence
The Guardian, "Israeli football fans attacked after match in Amsterdam" (c) Yesterday, on November 7, 2024, just two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a group of Israelis visiting Amsterdam for a football game were subjected to a series of violent attacks by pro-Palestinian assailants. Allow me to put this event in a historical context. Not to go into the ancient history of pogroms by Crusaders in the Middle Ages, or Bogdan Khmelnitsky pogrom in Ukraine and Poland in the seventeen century, the Kishinev pogrom, which erupted in the capital of Bessarabia province of the Russian Empire (now, Moldavia) during Passover of 1903, was one of the most notorious anti-Jewish riots in Russian history, triggered by the blood libel accusation spread through local antisemitic newspapers. During the Kishinev pogrom of April 6-7, 1903, [...]