Fatah official says Amsterdam violence against Israelis proves ‘world sick of Jews’

Fatah official Tayseer Nasrallah justifies the wave of violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week, calling the attacks “proof that the world is sick of the Jews,” according to quotes published by Palestinian Media Watch.

“What happened in the Netherlands two or three days ago is the best proof that the world is sick of the Jews, and is sick of the Israeli arrogance, and cannot stand this huge amount of hatred towards people,” the Palestinian Authority official says on state television.

Israeli officials said 10 people were injured in the Thursday violence by local Arab and Muslim gangs against Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans. Hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked. Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found, as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants who shouted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans while they hunted, beat, and harassed them.

However instead of decrying the violence, the PA on Friday called on the Dutch government “to investigate the [Israeli] hooligans and defend the Palestinians and Arabs in the Netherlands from these Israeli settlers and soldiers, who came to the Netherlands to transfer their racist ideas and their crimes to the European capitals.”