EUROPEANCONSERVATIVE.COM -- One of the accused, 32-year-old Mounir M., is charged with being the administrator of the WhatsApp group in which the violence was incited and organized. As the court heard, participants in the group encouraged each other to “hunt down Jews.”

Chat messages between the men accused of carrying out acts of targeted violence against Jews were read out during the trial, which confirmed that the horrific attack against supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Israeli football team had been planned well in advance.

Messages such as “[we] may never get this chance [again] to beat up some f***ing Jews,” and “we have to make those cancer Jews feel what they did to our brothers” were shared among the men as they were preparing their brutal attack.

However, Western liberal media outlets have remained silent on the shocking revelations that were unearthed during the trial.

As we previously reported, 20 to 30 people were injured, some of them hospitalized, in November last year after Israeli football fans were attacked by a pro-Palestine mob in Amsterdam following a match between Dutch team Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Footage shared widely on social media captured moments of horrifying violence, including assailants demanding that their victims denounce Israel and pledge allegiance to the Palestinian cause. The perpetrators proudly filmed their actions, and evidence later emerged that WhatsApp and Telegram groups had been created in advance to coordinate these attacks.

The assault was decried as a “pogrom” and a “Jew hunt” by conservative leaders, such as Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest Dutch governing party, the Party for Freedom.

Left-liberal politicians and commentators, however, chose to ignore the evidence and instead opted to calling the events “street violence” and “riots” as though both Jews and Arabs had been victims.

In December, five suspects were sentenced for their role in the violence, with the harshest punishment being a stint of six months in prison. Some of the men were said to have incited violence on chat messaging groups, and shared information about the whereabouts of Maccabi fans. Others were sentenced for physical violence, such as kicking their victims in the head or beating them while they were on the ground.

“To the rational observer, it was clear from the start that what happened in Amsterdam was a pogrom,” writes Spiked’s chief political writer, Brendan O’Neill. Yet the leftists remain ignorant or silent about the true nature of the assault and its aftermath.

The pitiless cynicism of so many observers following the Amsterdam pogrom exposed the neo-racist cruelty of identity politics. Their denials of the Jew hunt were fuelled by a warped belief that Jews can never be victims. After all, Jews are part of ‘the privileged’ and Arab migrants are part of ‘the oppressed’. And how can ‘the privileged’ suffer a pogrom at the hands of ‘the oppressed’? They sacrificed the truth of Amsterdam’s Jew hunt at the altar of ideology.

As Raouf Leeraar, Policy Director at Israel Allies Foundation Europe recently told europeanconservative.com:

Initially, there was widespread condemnation of the antisemitic attacks. But as soon as investigations revealed that the perpetrators were predominantly Muslim immigrants, the narrative shifted. Suddenly, the attackers became victims—portrayed as marginalized individuals reacting to discrimination or anger over Gaza—while the actual victims were subtly blamed for their supposed provocation.

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Zoltán Kottász is a journalist for europeanconservative.com, based in Budapest. He worked for many years as a journalist and as the editor of the foreign desk at the Hungarian daily, Magyar Nemzet. He focuses primarily on European politics.