This isn’t new. That was my first feeling on seeing the images of Jews being beaten on the streets of Europe. We’ve seen this before. We saw it 86 years ago this weekend, when more than 90 Jews died and thousands of businesses and synagogues were ransacked during the mass violence of Kristallnacht.
Now it was the turn of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s travelling football fans, who were knocked unconscious, thrown into canals, stamped on and lacerated with punches on their way home from Thursday night’s Europa League match in Amsterdam. One fan was viciously rammed by a car. Others pleaded with the mob not to be killed. Rioters searched hotels for hiding Jews.
“We want Jewish blood,” is what Aaron, 33, from north London, heard