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When Antisemitism Became Anti-Progress

JL;DR SUMMARY Drawing on recent violent incidents against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam, Joshua Hoffman explores how contemporary antisemitism often masquerades as anti-Zionism and has become paradoxically anti-progressive. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Anti ZionismJewish Self DeterminationProgressivismMaccabi Tel AvivProgressive HypocrisyAmsterdam ViolenceModern PrejudiceIntellectual Regression

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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"Israeli football fans in Amsterdam were deliberately targeted and beaten up on Thursday by mobs of antisemitic rioters, in what was described as a 21st-century pogrom."
Israel
"Israeli officials said 10 Israelis were injured in the hours of overnight violence, which the victims said was perpetrated largely by local Muslims and Arabs, with hundreds more people reportedly besieged in their hotels and fearing they could be attacked again when trying to reach their flights home."
London, United Kingdom
"Two Israelis who left Amsterdam on Friday morning and flew to London told a reporter from Israels Channel 12 on arrival in the U.K. that they were attacked Wednesday evening a full day before the football game in Amsterdam by Arab gangs in the city."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"The Israelis were mainly fans of the football team Maccabi Tel Aviv, who came to watch their team play against Ajax in Amsterdam."
Dam Square, North Holland, Netherlands
"Until other Israelis arrived at Dam Square and drove away the rioters, an hour and a half from the start of the event, the Amsterdam police didnt lift a finger."

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