Dutch Motives for Solidarity with Palestine

Translated for me by my friend Barhoum Jaraisi, from Nazareth. Written by Yitzik Crombie on Twitter, he is a religious Jew, commenting on the events in Amsterdam. He says:

“In the last year I have traveled around Europe, always with a Jewish skullcap on my head, and I have never been subjected to anything by anyone, I have never felt any fear, I have never faced any assault, and I have certainly never been subjected to any violence.”

He addresses the Israelis and says: “Do not act in Europe as if you are fans of the Israeli team Beitar against the Arab team Sakhnin, incited and supervised by Ben Gvir. If you do that, you will cry because you received blows. Just learn like Israelis in Europe. If you walk in the streets, do not lower the flags (meaning the Palestinian flags) and do not sing (against the Arabs). If you do not do that, then no one cares who you are or where you are from.”

This is not only a linguistic translation, from Hebrew to Arabic, but it is a translation by an Israeli Jewish person, of what Israeli "thugs" did in the streets of Amsterdam by taking down the Palestinian flag and tearing it up, which led to Dutch reactions, primarily towards the fans of the Israeli football team, and in response to their chants against Arabs and Palestinians.

Europe seemed divided, first, between the traditionalists who control the positions of their governments and still support the Israeli narrative, sympathizing with them because of the massacres they were subjected to by the German Nazis, the Italian Fascists, and the Russian Tsarists, and a sector of them is happy to get rid of the Jews and their departure from Europe to Palestine, and all of them belong to the old colonial heritage, and second, between the progressive democratic forces and trends that do not harbor hostility towards the Jews or Semites, but reject their expansionist colonial program in Palestine at the expense of its people, and the heinous, blatant, racist, fascist crimes they commit against the Palestinian Arab people, which they did previously in 1948, and they seek through their criminal actions once again to achieve the motives of what they did previously, which is the deportation, expulsion and displacement of the remaining Palestinians, especially from the Gaza camps and the West Bank camps, and thus achieve two goals: 1- Getting rid of the manifestations of the 1948 Nakba, from the refugees, UNRWA and the right of return, 2- Getting rid of the factor The Palestinian demographics are designed to keep the smallest possible number of Palestinians on their homeland, in order to achieve the goal of an Israeli majority.

No Palestinian, Arab, Muslim or Christian hates Jews, because they are Jews. They are part of our heritage, values and nationality, and they are followers of a heavenly religion. However, we all hate colonialism, injustice and oppression, regardless of who does it: Muslim, Christian, Jewish, non-religious, Arab or non-Arab. We do not accept the oppression of Kurds, Amazighs or blacks in our Arab countries. Now, Jews are living with us as Arabs in Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco, and none of them are subjected to any shameful act. However, we struggle against some Arab governments because they are not democratic or authoritarian, even though their leaders are Arabs and Muslims.

An Arab-Islamic summit is being held, and the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic peoples are counting on it for the importance of holding this summit, so that it may constitute a real, serious lever supporting and backing them, and perhaps sending a message to the rulers of the world so that they pay attention to their inhumane positions and suspicious silence, which encourages the leaders of the colony to continue their heinous crimes against the Palestinian people and against the Lebanese people.