Afrasianet - Mohamed Farag - In Amsterdam, before and after, the slogan "anti-Semitism" emerges from the dusty drawers, and every time we find ourselves struggling to interpret the interpreter, to say for the umpteenth time, "We are responding to aggression".
Two pictures circulated side by side on social media after the events in Amsterdam: the image of Qassam resisters dragging the occupation soldiers on the seventh of October, and the image of young people supporting the Palestinian right in Amsterdam responding to the barbarism and aggression of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv "fans" (and it is logical to put the word fans in brackets, because the identity of the settler community component is based on reserve soldiers whose exact location we can no longer determine, on the stands of football stadiums or behind the offices of international programming companies operating in occupied Palestine).
The European authorities have wanted the Arab for decades to be the "good victim", and when the Israeli attacks in Europe to tear up the Palestinian flag, cheer for the death of the Arab, and despise him and try to insult him, the response to all of this is to stand at the doors of international bodies in the long queue of complaints that rot.
This is exactly what the European authorities themselves wanted for the Arab himself, with regard to the big picture of confronting the occupation, as the response to the killing of Palestinians and the nibbling of land through settlement, starvation and siege must be by queuing in the same queue, under the same title of "good victim". But on the seventh of October, the Palestinian decided to declare his fatigue with the useless waiting, and this is exactly what the youth who support the Palestinian right to Amsterdam decided more than a year after the first event.
In Amsterdam, before and after, the slogan "anti-Semitism" emerges from dusty drawers, and every time we find ourselves struggling to interpret the interpreter, to say for the umpteenth time "we are responding to an attack", we extract evidence from the event, we conduct approaches, we recall repeated examples of Israeli barbarism, and we recall that a fan in Greece chanted "Freedom for Palestine" during a match between the same Israeli club and Olympiacos. The Israeli club was beaten, and we did not hear a single condemnation saying that what is happening is hostile to the Palestinian and Arab rights!
But we also in the field of writing, media and culture, we are tired of writing petitions that the European and American authorities do not want to read; we feel a desire to imitate the resistance fighters on the seventh of October and the youth in Amsterdam, and just as the first dragged the occupation soldier from his uniform, and just as the second dragged the Israeli aggressors by their shirts to the beat of the chant "Free Palestine", we feel an unbridled desire to drag the promoters of the slogan "anti-Semitism" into the arena of history and philosophy, and our mouthpiece says, "Enough, this slogan is a naïve historical farce."
So read Arthur Koestler (who was enthusiastic about Zionist thought in his youth), the thirteenth tribe and today's Jews, and let us duel in the field of thought and history, and this time write petitions to defend the rupture of the link between the settlers in Palestine and the Semites, and be in the position of defending the DNA tests that prove this link is broken, and come argue with Munir al-Akash in his book "Jews and Violence", and discuss the Semites in the origins of the historical novel. We simply got tired of the state of justification "It was not hostility For the Semites", and we have secured the debate of politics with a scene from you and a scene from us, so let's end this controversy in the field of history and thought, once and for all!.
The night of Amsterdam provoked the false and naïve invocations of history, from the European official who came out with the cylinder of "anti-Semitism", to Netanyahu who came out with the crystal Nacht (the night of broken glass), and tries to cover up the heinous crimes in Palestine and Lebanon by invoking a faint image that history has uttered, the image of the Jew fighting blood in Europe!
On Kristallnacht Night, Ben-Gurion said, "I would rather half of the Jewish children die so that the other half go to Palestine, and not anywhere else, they should not go to the 'safe havens' in Britain and the United States, they should go to Palestine." To this end, the kidnapping of children from Jewish families in Europe, in the Netherlands and Switzerland in particular, has escalated to force their parents to follow them to Palestine. This is the history Netanyahu knows and hides, and Amsterdam in particular should read it well and act accordingly.
We are simply moving in the vortex of the fraud of the Israeli discourse, which tries to combine a show of force to incite mass hysteria in crime, and oppression to hide the crime, and in the vortex of European discourse that insists on continuing to address the "Jewish question" (this is its historical name in Europe), by ignoring that it is considered a purely European problem, solved by exporting it to Palestine, in the same period of time in which the Dutch unemployment problem was solved to operate in South Africa and control it!
Amsterdam is not a passing event, nor a lightning political problem; what happened in Amsterdam is an intensification of the conflict of historical narratives, and although the Palestinian right triumphs at the level of European popular opinion, which stirred student and non-student demonstrations, raised slogans in support of the highest part "Palestine from the sea to the river", but we need to install this victory in the field of history, in historical time, in the international bodies that canceled the early nineties the law to combat Zionism as a form of racism, which was It was approved at the United Nations during the seventies.
We need to confirm the triumph of European public opinion in the field of history, and we need a precise definition of Semitism before passing the slogan and the law with this level of disregard; come to the debate hall, because we are no longer the "good victim"!