Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us | Rachel Shabi

Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters attacked local people near Amsterdam Central Station .

Anti-Semitic chants chanted: “Let the IDF [ Israeli army] win, we will fuck the Arabs ”, “ Fuck you Palestine” and “Why is there no school in Gaza ? There are no children left there.”.

Far-right parties often with unsavoury track records on antisemitism are chasing a political revival by situating themselves as self-declared defenders of Jewish communities in a clash-of-civilisations fight with Islam .

Wilders is now threatening to deport and strip the citizenship of those he deems to have instigated the violence.