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Explosion rocks Amsterdam Jewish school in what mayor says is ‘targeted attack’ against Jewish community

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/europe/amsterdam-jewish-school-explosion-netherlands-hnk-intl
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yungsemite Mar 14, 2026 +536
That makes it like 7 synagogues and Jewish schools attacked in the last week. 2 in Toronto, 1 in Detroit, 1 in Norway, 1 in Rotterdam, 1 in Amsterdam (above), 1 in Liège at least in the past week.
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DPEilla Mar 15, 2026 +114
3 in the Greater Toronto Area
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PuzzleheadedCherry64 Mar 15, 2026 +82
Canada leading the way was not on my bingo card with regards to hate attacks
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yungsemite Mar 15, 2026 +125
There’s been at least a dozen in Canada since Oct 7th. One guy was charged with advocating genocide. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/man-faces-rare-charge-of-advocating-genocide-against-jewish-community-toronto-police-say-1.7486051
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PuzzleheadedCherry64 Mar 15, 2026 +29
Sad, not shocking, just disappointing on a human level. Sorry Canadians being sorry sack of shit
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Hicalibre Mar 15, 2026 +5
May want to add quotes around Canadians on that one. Many born Canadians are pissed with the government's handling of it.
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Yop_BombNA Mar 15, 2026 +2
‘Many born Canadians’ - this has to be rage bait. Canada has always had antisemitic white supremacists. I will say King was one of our best PMs, but look at the guys opinions on Jewish people… I have family we don’t talk to because they married a family that was literally an SS official who got acquired of their warcrimes because they worked for the Canadian government researching at a Canadian university. Canada has always appeased anti semitism it is not something magically imported with new migrants. It’s also well known that both migrants and non migrants like Jewish people but dislike Isreal. I point to Sam Cedar here referencing North American synagogues that support and provide funds for campaigns to support Israel’s wars “as an American Jewish person they are endangering my family with their rhetoric”. Associate with something people hate and you are more likely to have hate against you, which unfortunately leads to hate crimes in extreme cases. Is would be like if mosques across Canada started campaigning for the government to and themselves funding ISIS, there would be a lot of hate against Muslims and even more hate crimes than already committed against them.
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Hicalibre Mar 15, 2026 +12
Not denying that, but the idiots joining things like ISIS we call "Canadians of convenience".
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leopardbaseball Mar 15, 2026 +32
Oh you have no Idea! There has been consistent shootings and attacks on Jewish communities in toronto, including repeated shootings on Jewish schools in toronto. https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESkwEBO6uMpbnLai0OjX7YGtnKwPEL6uYXLoZeuMdNz4Rm9iPW8Johmro9nWMJh7H2APVy4U4xzbSbgwt5ytvfWPT68Sb2AqUrNCVIP4aLY9Zbets-eaiHVIOMj1wZfkfncBrDY33j8TEOOXPOIkzumAZyUCv3v_XrSl-CQehClu1FhD2yhuEGvXsnMxcsW05ifqoSnBE=
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petit_cochon Mar 14, 2026 +95
Yes, we had a special Shabbat service last night in light of it all. Many Jewish communities are going into a kind of lockdown. We know what's out there. We know we have to rely on each other when things get like this. My son's daycare has armed guards. It needs to. At Shabbat, we sang a song that was written by a Jewish man while he was on a cattle car to Treblinka. He told the car, after he composed the melody, that that he would give half his share of the Kingdom of heaven to anyone who could get it out into the world. So two people found a way to escape the train car, and one survived the job and brought the song to a rabbi. Now it's in our prayerbook. The song begins by talking about knowing the sun is there even on a cloudy day.
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trieditalissa Mar 15, 2026 +18
Just drove by a Jewish school in my neighborhood and saw armed security. I felt so sad. When we moved in a couple of months ago our neighbors asked if we were allies. We said yes of course but the fact that these times require them to even ask…
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s1a1om Mar 14, 2026 +79
It’s almost like Jews need a place where they can go to be safe.
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Bananasaur_ Mar 15, 2026 +37
Actually it’s almost like Jews are one of the most violently targeted religious groups. When this happens to racial groups like attacks on Indian immigrants when people hated Islamists for 9/11 or Chinese immigrants when people blamed China for Covid people stood up for each other and pointed out how illogical it was to attack someone for something happening in a completely different country that was completely outside of their control with the only reason being they physically looked like people from that country. But for some reason when it’s Jews everyone looks in another direction, or still claim it is somehow their fault.
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Iohet Mar 15, 2026 +26
Being a Jew doesn't mean I'm Israeli or that I want to be
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andreicde Mar 15, 2026 +6
You are correct but unfortunately your government is giving that impression by claiming any criticism against Israel is anti-semitism. Smart people will see the difference...but unfortunately we live in a world where not everyone is, least of all people willing to go extreme or country leaders for some of them.
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veggeble Mar 15, 2026 +13
No, Jews should be able to be safe in any country. It's almost like Israel should stop conflating being Jewish with support for Israel as a Jewish ethnostate.
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AlamutJones Mar 14, 2026 +909
If you’re not keen on the idea of Israel, I don’t know why you’d put effort into hurting Jewish citizens of countries that are NOT Israel. Making them feel unsafe and unwelcome in the countries they’re already in feels counterproductive, since it pushes them to potentially leave and join The Country You Don’t Want To Exist. None of the people in Amsterdam’s Jewish community deserve this.
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mattfreyer45 Mar 14, 2026 +232
And these attacks only drive more jewish people to immigrate to Israel. It has the opposite effect.
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Standard_Island546 Mar 15, 2026 +157
That’s one of the big reasons Israel got created in the first place
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Agitated-Ticket-6560 Mar 15, 2026 +12
This exactly 💯
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VonDukez Mar 15, 2026 +58
Wait till you find out how 50% of the Israeli population got there
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mattfreyer45 Mar 15, 2026 +47
Yeah they being discriminated against throughout the middles east. Can't forget about the Russian pogroms either.
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Combination-Low Mar 15, 2026 +9
You might have forgotten the holocaust. Probably the single biggest driver.
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DreadWolf3 Mar 15, 2026
It just proves what has been proven 1000 times. You can disagree with methods Zionists use ( obviously they use inexcusably violent methods) but they are 100% right that Jews need a safe heaven.
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Kitchen_Ad1973 Mar 14, 2026 +691
That's because they are not keen on the idea of Jews
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AlamutJones Mar 14, 2026 +159
Unfortunately it seems that way
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wefr5927 Mar 14, 2026 +173
Always been this way
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lizardRD Mar 15, 2026 +5
Not “seems that way” it’s always been that way for thousands of years
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fitandhealthyguy Mar 15, 2026 +30
This is exactly it. The anti-israel and in some cases, anti-jewish rhetoric out there is feeding into those with antisemitic leanings. I also believe that it is pushing some who were anti-israel across the line to antisemitism.
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syynapt1k Mar 15, 2026 +3
Support from political moderates who were previously pro-Israel has also severely waned.
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CakeBrigadier Mar 14, 2026 +7
There is an unfortunate cycle where anti semites target Jews -> Zionist Jews conflate anti Israel rhetoric with anti semitic rhetoric -> antizionists / pro Palestine activists argue there’s no antisemitism among their movement -> previously non Zionist Jews feel gaslit and move more towards the Zionist camp/ against the anti Zionist movement
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Letshavemorefun Mar 14, 2026 +129
Most of us (Jews) are already and have always been Zionist. It’s kinda hard not to when half our holiday slogans are “next year in Jerusalem” and our holidays and traditional foods are based off the seasons and foods in our indigenous homeland. But sure, there is some amount of mostly-secular Jews that fall into the cycle you’re describing.
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Pokeputin Mar 14, 2026 +160
That's because jews use the word "zionist" as it's original meaning, many others use it as "Israeli nazis"
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TikvahT Mar 15, 2026 +88
You’re so right, and then most of the people using it in that way have no understanding of what the word means to Jewish people.
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Miserable-Savings751 Mar 15, 2026 +24
They definitely know. They do it intentionally to change the meaning/connotation behind the word.
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TikvahT Mar 15, 2026 +3
Some of them, for sure. Maybe even most. Some of them are truly stupid or ignorant, from my personal experience.
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Gnagus Mar 15, 2026 +16
Up until relatively recently I had only heard the term used by Neo Nazis and Jihadist propaganda. The Israelis that self identified as Zionist were as crazy and distasteful as the ultra-orthodox who called themselves anti-Zionist. It's been a bit of a mind f*** to hear the American left use it so casually.
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genesiss23 Mar 15, 2026 +2
Those select ultra Orthodox communities are still zionists but in another way. They believe Israel should only be reestablished with the coming of the Messiah.
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bakedbarista Mar 15, 2026 +12
This is the crux of the issue
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OddCook4909 Mar 15, 2026 +40
Jew hate has always been the crux of the issue.
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Hewenheim Mar 17, 2026 +2
That's the point I tried to make to some guy who said they should have just made Alaska their Jewish state. I'm like...uhh, no you can't really divorce everything from their ethnic homeland when it makes up the bulk of their religious traditions. Kinda sorta irrevocably intertwined... ...to which he just called me part of the problem.
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Xvalidation Mar 14, 2026 +84
Zionism exists because Jews feel unsafe. There is nothing about “conflating” anti-semitism with anti-Israel. Jews want Israel to exist so that they can feel safe - and time and time again, they are proven to be correct feeling that way.
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M4R5W0N6 Mar 15, 2026 +5
*zionism will exist until israeli settlers decide they have stolen enough lebensraum to feel safe* fixed it for you
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ventitr3 Mar 14, 2026 +80
There’s been an unfortunate number of attacks on non-Israeli Jews to the point that it’s becoming a mask off situation.
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BodSmith54321 Mar 14, 2026 +172
None of the people in any Jewish community deserve this.
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AlamutJones Mar 14, 2026 +47
Indeed they do not
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tonic613 Mar 14, 2026 +95
Because the majority of Jews support the *idea* of Israel – even though they don’t agree on *all* of Israel’s policies. Heck, even Jews within Israel disagree on how the government should be doing things.
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MechRxn Mar 14, 2026 +92
Let’s call this what it is, this person is likely an antisemite and doesn’t like Jewish people period.
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[deleted] Mar 14, 2026 +20
I can't imagine someone who didn't dislike Jewish people would do something like this.
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[deleted] Mar 14, 2026 +5
There are billions of people in the world, and a few dozen of them can ruin things.
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waveyl Mar 15, 2026 +6
I mean yeah, you can say the same about the Nazis and the Holocaust.
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MosesDoughty Mar 15, 2026 +37
That's because it's always been about Jews. Alot of people wanted to act like they solved antisemitism because they stopped the Nazis and acted like it was to save Jews (ignoring the whole world takeover part, the rest of the war, how they were treating Jews back home, the popularity of Nazi parties at home, and rejecting Jewish immigrants). There's been no reflection on the conspiracy theories spread about Jews and that treatment that has become part of the societal fabric, because it would require treating Jews like co-citizens rather than scapegoats. Like, Jews are always near if not at the top of lists for rates of hate crimes (proportionally, not in total) for cities throughout the US, yet this has been about as good as it's been historically for Jews.
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poison-harley Mar 15, 2026 +16
They don’t want Jews ANYWHERE. I had conversations with people who told us to go back to Europe, and then Europeans replied that they don’t want us either. They simply don’t want Jews to exist, but hide their true opinions behind the guise of “anti-Zionism” because it’s more socially accepted.
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jagronin Mar 15, 2026 +10
They don’t want Jews to live in their country, and they don’t want Jews to have a country. It’s not just about a dislike of Israel, they just don’t want Jews to exist
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Kiryu-chan-fan Mar 15, 2026 +8
There's always been a great cope about how if Israel was founded on some uninhabited island chain or whatever no one would have a problem... I've always kinda wanted to see it. The UK cedes a bunch of our Scottish islands to them...I'd give it about 24 hours before the 50 Islamic countries suddenly found out that Mo had definitely claimed these islands off the Scottish coast using a bunch of poorly translated Arabic to justify it and the post Soviet sore losers of the cold war straight up invented some indigenous people's the israelis were oppressing by living on these islands...
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Protean_Protein Mar 16, 2026 +3
There is literally a “Jewish Autonomous Oblast” in Russia. It’s in f****** Siberia.
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EasyMode556 Mar 14, 2026 +88
That’s because for these people, it’s never actually been about Israel. It was always about Jews.
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AtrophiedWives Mar 15, 2026 +10
Gosh, so are you suggesting that attacking Jewish communities is something that solely benefits Israel?
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MotleyMocker Mar 14, 2026 +8
These sorts of things rarely follow some straightforward logical cost-benefit analysis...
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jewishjedi42 Mar 14, 2026 +26
As a 46 year old American Jew, I can confirm. Up until the last year or two, I've never really considered making aliyah. But the rising tide of Jew hate everywhere has made me start considering it. I've even started learning a little bit of Hebrew, just in case.
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Capable_Bad_3813 Mar 14, 2026 +6
The IRGC are blood thirsty terrorists who are attacking everyone in the region including countries that were friendly to them.  Trying to understand the logic behind their actions is a waste of time since they have none.
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1egg_4u Mar 15, 2026 +4
Unfortunately this entire situation has given very real antisemitists and islamophobes their best wedge issue. Actual white supremacists and neo nazis are having a field day with this because people are now conflating judaism as a whole with Israel despite the multitudes of Jewish people adamantly against what is happening in Palestine and on the flip side getting people to associate support for palestine with support for hamas and also is a gift wrapped way of dividing their ideological enemies on the left
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orangera2n Mar 14, 2026 +26
this is why I think we need an israel sure, you can disagree and condemn with the states policies (i do) as much as you want but making jews unwelcome elsewhere is not acceptable nor is it moral, regardless of your opinions on israel
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Randomly2 Mar 14, 2026 +11
I feel like….you’re SO close to getting it
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Ok_Complaint5198 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Almost as if it wasn’t about Israel
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BarelyConscientious Mar 16, 2026 +1
It's not about being accurate. It's about reciprocating and distributing pain
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plippityploppitypoop Mar 16, 2026 +2
It’s almost like this is antisemitism and not just sparkling anti-Zionism
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Sea-Chart2558 Mar 17, 2026 +2
The world attacks do more then that, they validate Zionism. For Jews it's nothing new, they've been dealing with the Anti-Semitic persecution and attacks for centuries. It is newer though, that the world left population has become the most voracious racists.
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wefr5927 Mar 14, 2026 +161
The jcc near me has had to close 12 times in the past 5 months due to threats. Edit: this is also a preschool for the record
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Sea-Chart2558 Mar 17, 2026 +3
Validating the point of Zionists. 
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jerrrrremy Mar 14, 2026 +82
Right or left, people generally don't like living around terrorists. 
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TheWhiteManticore Mar 14, 2026 +33
Hey positive feedback loop at apocalyptic level
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24-Hour-Hate Mar 14, 2026 +1
A promise they don’t actually mean as even if those politicians aren’t antisemitic themselves, these sort of attacks are generally perpetrated by right wing, white supremacist groups (who are also massively antisemitic) and they empower such groups either their rhetoric and policies. What they mean is that they will call groups they don’t like terrorists, antisemitic, etc. and try to shut them and freedom of expression down using that as a justification.
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AtomicFreeman Mar 15, 2026 +88
Anti-semites to Jews outside of Israel: "Go back to Israel!" Also anti-semites to Jews in Israel: "Go back to Europe!"
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CressCheap Mar 15, 2026 +35
That’s exactly what my grandma heard in Bavaria, Germany in the 1930’s when she was a child.
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CheekyBard Mar 14, 2026 +306
Left-leaning communities often mock the right for conspiracy theories, but they become polluted with them when it comes to Israel and attacks on Jews. They also refuse to call things as they are or assign any agency to the people committing these acts. They're always retaliatory, and due to Israel, never about just plain antisemitism.
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MechRxn Mar 14, 2026 +99
Bingo. I used to be on the left and have become more moderate left (very pro science, women’s rights etc) but Jfc has the left of center gone bonkers with the antisemitism. Both extremes are bad but at least with the right we knew they were nuts. Now the far left is really showing they are just as bad by intertwining the anti Israeli sentiment with antisemitism and not even caring that they are just as radical as the far right. Infuriating times we are living in.
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ventitr3 Mar 14, 2026 +41
People often make the mistake that certain human behavior is political spectrum specific. In reality, we all have different flavors of the same base stat crazy.
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TwoPoundzaSausage Mar 16, 2026 +2
Boom. This is what people mean when they say when they say "both sides are the same." Both sides are made of people. People with very human flaws. People are gonna do what people do. Extremists are gonna be crazy, and the moderates are going to cater to them because they need to maximize voter turnout for them.
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MadeyesNL Mar 15, 2026 +45
Yeah, same. It's the complete lack of empathy for Jews that gets me. Replace 'synagogue' with 'mosque' and these people would go nuts. But synagogue? Crickets. In contrast: if right wingers shows no empathy towards that mosque they're (correctly) called islamphobic, but call the left wing response 'antisemitic' and they tumble over each other yelling at you that it's antizionism. I once thought they had principles and genuinely believed & applied their theories about social justice. Turns out they don't, their only principle is 'we're the good guys so we can't be racist'.
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MechRxn Mar 15, 2026 +15
Political extremism continues to grow in America - it will be the undoing of this country. Many people to blame for this too.
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MadeyesNL Mar 15, 2026 +5
I dunno where it'll go. America has survived worse, political tension is of all times. 'Blaming people' is pointless and leads to polarization. 'Your guy is bad!' 'nuh uh, your guy is bad!' in the end we all want roughly the same things and should examine underlying systems.
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DaddyK3tchup Mar 14, 2026 +14
Yep. Same coin, just opposite sides of it. Bigotry is bigotry, hatred is hatred - whatever side of the political spectrum it comes from.
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PuzzleheadedCherry64 Mar 15, 2026 +1
So the media sowing division isn’t the bees knees? No FN way you don’t say. Divided we fall. Nobody picking up on that?
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Friendly-Olive-3465 Mar 15, 2026 +89
The same people that told you American society was systemically racist for the attacks on individuals wearing turbans after 9/11 are now boldly making excuses as to why shooting and bombing Jews is understandable because Israel did something bad. Oh and also making up conspiracy theories about how these are all false flag attacks. This is the kind of behaviour I expect from the right-wing, not the left. It’s a bit disgusting.
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BodSmith54321 Mar 15, 2026 +46
Horse Shoe Theory in action.
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mangabalanga Mar 15, 2026 +34
Just fyi if this is a new sensation for you, it’s been that was for the past 3-ish years for most Jews when talking to their left leaning friends who they used to see as political kin
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Professional_Fix4593 Mar 15, 2026 +12
Who specifically has said this? Genuinely asking.
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GrassCandle Mar 16, 2026 +3
This isn’t the left as much as it is Islam. The left, at least in the United States, has aligned with Muslims via their identity politics platform. The irony is the Muslims are quite far right - they broadly don’t share the values of western progressives, and they are broadly more hostile about religion than Christian nationalists.
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False-Lettuce-6074 Mar 14, 2026 +79
Genuinely braindead BlueAnon babies in the comments
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nobadhotdog Mar 14, 2026 +95
Setting off 300 explosions at 300 schools won’t change Israel’s trajectory.
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theguy1336 Mar 14, 2026 +277
One's local Jewish neighbor also isn't responsible for Israel's trajectory
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BodSmith54321 Mar 14, 2026 +169
My guess is no number of dead Jews for any reason will stop people from bringing up Israel as the excuse.
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Hellstorm901 Mar 14, 2026 +110
You only need to have a 5 minute conversation with some activists to figure out their "I'm not Antisemitic I'm only Anti - Zionist" mantra actually translates to Anti - Jewish when you pick apart what they define Zionist as
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Fluid-Opportunity-17 Mar 14, 2026 +4
How do you define zionist?
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Hellstorm901 Mar 14, 2026 +74
Zionism is the belief that the Jews should have a state and be prepared to fight for it Explain to me how setting a bomb off in a school in Amsterdam fights Zionism
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Pokeputin Mar 15, 2026 +19
It's not even about fighting, it's just nationalism for the jews, the only reason it even has a special word is because back then it was not an obvious that palestine will be the homeland of the jewish state, while it was pretty obvious for other states like Italy or Germany (and even they had some disputed territories)
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CheekyBard Mar 14, 2026 +47
A person who believes the Jewish people have a right to a country in their ancestral homeland, to which they have maintained a cultural and physical connection for thousands of years. That is the basic definition. It does not address the complexities of achieving this goal in the 20th century, and there is much to discuss about how to go about it when the land has also been inhabited by other people ever since the Jewish exile. But having issues with the core idea is telling.
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AlamutJones Mar 15, 2026 +14
Interestingly, there is/was historically a subset of Zionist thought that was willing to be flexible about the location. Obviously the “we gotta have Jerusalem or what‘s the point” side of the debate seems to have won out, but certainly Theodor Herzl considered several options when he first raised the idea. It wasn’t absolutely required that Israel In Theory fill the exact geographical space that Israel In Reality now does. ETA: Why the HELL am I being downvoted for mentioning a historically attested disagreement between different groups of Zionists about what exactly the proposed homeland had to be?
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crpssurvivor1210 Mar 15, 2026 +8
Idk why you’re being downvoted this is true
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theguy1336 Mar 14, 2026 +35
NOTHING legitimizes Israel's existence more than attacks like this. It is a treasured gift to them. I'm getting downvoted for giving serious political strategy advice lol
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RedTulkas Mar 14, 2026 +6
Pretty sure netanyahu and his lads are ecstatic about attacks like these, it gives them legitimacy and takes heat of em If you conflate random Jews with Israel you re an unredeemable idiot
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aconnor105 Mar 14, 2026 +7
You could say the same thing if Netanyahu got arrested. Israelis would say "Those foreigners just arrested Netanyahu because he's Jewish" and use that as propaganda. They are also using anyone boycotting Israel as anti jewish. Even though the boycotts were for the genocide. We are running out of ideas to get justice here.
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Yes_Mans_Sky Mar 15, 2026 +2
It's like the quote "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him". Jewish people and by proxy Israel are just convenient scapegoats for human uncertainty. It's easier to just decide a group ought to suffer for the greater good. Because the Jewish population is smaller, more insular, and until recently, stateless they were the most convenient target.
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BodSmith54321 Mar 15, 2026 +2
Well said. No one cared, protested, or made a peep, when the Syrians killed 350,000 people or the same amount who have died in the war in Yemen or any other conflict. They are fixated on Israel and ONLY Israel and there is only one thing unique about Israel.
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Fruitcake6969 Mar 14, 2026 +54
I wonder what excuse people will give the terrorist. Did his terrorist brother also get killed by Israel?
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No_Palpitation133 Mar 14, 2026 +56
These fools hate Jews so much they are the new Nazis
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Ching-Dai Mar 15, 2026 +21
I genuinely wish the world as a whole could grasp that Jewish people and the Israeli government aren’t the same.
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zzyul Mar 15, 2026 +3
They know, they just hate Jewish people and hide it behind socially acceptable terms like “anti zionism”
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chicknsnotavegetabl Mar 15, 2026 +28
Wait a minute, I'm starting to think these 'river to the sea' folks aren't exactly peaceful
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Tattletail_Media Mar 15, 2026 +18
When they say 'zionist', they means Jews. Also, this is what 'Globalise the Intafada' looks like.
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IronSavage3 Mar 14, 2026 +19
Don’t let your anti-Zionism turn into anti-Semitism folks!
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LoaderOperator98 Mar 15, 2026 +4
Oh but I'm sure this is just blowback against the Netherlands government for arming a "genocide" right?
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zzzyyyxxxqqq Mar 14, 2026 +25
I’m Dutch and live close to Amsterdam. Obviously this is bad, but let’s not blow it out of proportion (excuse the pun) “Explosion rocks school” sounds a lot worse than “fireworks set off against outer wall at night doing no real damage”. Just check the video and see for yourself. Video at bottom of this page shows the actual “explosion” which happened at night, apparently filmed by the person who did it: https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6389203/zorgen-na-weer-een-aanval-op-een-joods-gebouw-schokkend-nieuw-dieptepunt.html The rainpipe is blackened but intact, bricks undamaged. The intent to scare schoolchildren is horrible. Dutch police and politicians are taking that very seriously. Edit: a reaction below suggests I delete this post, because it downplays what happened. Instead, a serious response, if I may. What do terrorists want? The clue is in the name; they want to incite terror. A lot of dramatic media coverage is exactly what they are after. You would be making their job very easy, helping them in fact, by overstating this case of some fireworks into something much bigger. Do not give them the oxygen or the satisfaction of dramatic headlines when not warranted. Report, do not ignore, do not go all Fox News.
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zzzyyyxxxqqq Mar 15, 2026 +1
I have not deleted the post, but adressed your concerns by editting the post. I suggest reading it, and would be civilly interested in your reaction. A Molotov cocktail is obviously a different case. Let's avoid infighting and combat the real problem together.
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zzzyyyxxxqqq Mar 15, 2026 -1
“Explosion rocks Jewish school” is very simply not a truthful headline. If the exact same fireworks had been placed anywhere else, the headline would have been different. Of course the motive would also have been different, true: so in journalism, describe motive, threat, intent AND exactly what happened truthfully. And please read the last sentence of my original post again. Quoting a post below: You can acknowledge a terroristic threat without intentionally reframing it to be worse than it was.
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ph0on Mar 15, 2026 +9
Yeah framing a firework fear attack as "explosion rocks school" is absolutely an intentional phrasing to illicit images of a large bomb going off. Facts are funny that way. “gunfire erupts at government building” when someone fired a single shot into the air outside the gate accidentally is still a factually correct representation, but still leading phrasing. You can acknowledge a terroristic threat without intentionally reframing it to be worse than it was.
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iGR0OT Mar 15, 2026 +5
People (mostly Israeli politicians honestly) use the word antisemitism so much that it loses meaning sometimes, but THIS is antisemitism. Attacking jews ONLY because they are jews. Criticism of the Israeli government (usually) isn't antisemitism, but legitimate criticism of a country's leadership and policies.
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Scholarind Mar 15, 2026 -1
Dont worry guys, its not anti semetism, its anti zionist.
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Misternogo Mar 16, 2026 +1
I can't think of any other group of people where the ethnicity is so closely tied to the religion. Middle Eastern people are often assumed to be Muslim, but plenty are Christian or even non-religious. When it comes to Jewish people, the ethnicity seems to come with the religion, even if there are some non-ethnically Jewish people that have converted to the religion and ethnically Jewish people that have a different, or no religion. You have a religion that historically focuses on a specific piece of land, occupies that land, and has a government on that land that attempts to speak for the people and religion as a whole. This also feels unique, to me. When that government starts committing atrocities, and has a lot of very uncomfortable, open opinions about its neighbors and the land they live on, it makes it very, very easy for anyone bigoted to overlay the actions of that government on an entire race and religion. And then you get shit like this. People attacking children in unrelated countries because of the actions of some tiny, volatile country in a completely different part of the world.
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SoulStoneSeeker Mar 16, 2026 +1
well they didnt just happen yo walk by and throw it at random
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