By Nejoud Al-Yagout

Recently, in Amsterdam, there were clashes between Zionist football hooligans and Palestinians. Depending on which news network you believe, the blame was thrust on either the Zionists or the Palestinians. Interestingly enough, a young boy from Amsterdam, host of the Bender channel on Youtube, revealed footage taken the day after the infamous clashes. In his video, there were Zionist hooligans picking up rocks and sticks on the streets of Amsterdam.

It was not long before local policemen came to the scene, but what was puzzling is that they were not arrested. Taxi drivers protested the presence of the hooligans with loud honking, but the police seemed to be “escorting” them as they walked menacingly through the streets of Amsterdam. The hooligans were even allowed to storm into an alley and come back out, regroup, and keep walking. At one point, they were surrounded by police in what looked like an impending arrest, only to be led to another part of the city— the same part of the city where they had pulled down Palestinian flags the night before.

The hooligans threw rocks at windows without being handcuffed or restrained by the policemen beside them. And the host of the channel wondered aloud why the police took them to the same neighborhood where they tore down Palestinian flags the day before. Even if that may have been where they resided, one wonders why they were allowed to chant loudly and create fear on the streets without being held accountable.

In Europe, Russians are not allowed to play in sporting events. Zionists, on the other hand, are not only given free rein to kill women and children, bomb hospitals, desecrate property, steal the homes of the Palestinians and encroach upon their land, but are also allowed to participate in sports events proudly while their compatriots get away with murder and genocide. What is it about Zionists that allows them to perpetrate such heinous atrocities even as people of the world protest them? Why did the world unite against Nazism and Fascism but now turns a blind eye to the genocidal tendencies of the Zionist movement?

How many more times do we need to hear the word genocide for the world to stop a movement that should have never been allowed to start? Why is it that when thousands of Zionists kill the elderly, the defenseless men and the young boys, the mothers and the babies, they are allowed to film their rampage, ridicule their victims, and continue under the pretext of preserving their security? Aren’t the Zionist forces terrorizing the people of Palestine? Aren’t they creating waves of shock and dismay globally? Isn’t that terrorism? Terrorism has no religion or ethnicity. Any movement that creates terror is terrorism.

The truth is that Zionists have carte blanche to do what they want, when they want it, and how they want it. The worst that can happen is a “warning” here or there telling them to agree to a ceasefire or a nation threatening to reduce arms supplied to them. These are all empty threats, because since its inception, the Zionist entity seems to have its own set of rules. While another country would be ostracized and held accountable for threatening the equilibrium of our inbuilt collective moral compass, the Zionists are permitted to project their extreme jingoist philosophy onto the world, while playing the victim card.

Even though their propaganda machine is crumbling as people around the globe have finally woken up to what this movement really is, they have managed to latch (and leech) onto those in positions of power. But what they don’t know is that even those in positions of power are growing weary of their antics and brazen madness. And though they use religion to galvanize their followers, they haven’t realized that spiritual hypocrisy has an expiry date, and the time will come soon when Zionism, like all movements which thrive on killing the so-called other while preserving their own, will fail.

The world has seen what Zionism is capable of, and that is what stupefies most of us: that it is seen for what it is but is still allowed regardless, and with impunity, to continue. Perhaps that is why most of us are disillusioned with the way of the world. It is no longer devils pretending to be good, but devils revealing themselves and being given the right to perpetrate evil.

We are all shaken up and shocked that the phrase uttered by the Jews after the holocaust — Never again! — seems to only apply to them. And what is most shocking is that the descendants of victims of one of history’s most heinous crimes are those who are now committing ethnic cleansing. The phrase “Never again” was appropriated by other leaders, so it was never known whether the phrase applied to Jews or was a universal prompt to avoid any form of genocide. With events in Palestine, the answer is clear. Sadly, heartbreakingly, clear.