Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of Christians United For Israel, which has over 10 million members, issued an impassioned statement following the recent attacks on Jews in Amsterdam.
“This week, an Israeli soccer team competed in Amsterdam,” Hagee began. “After the game, the Israeli soccer fans were hunted in the streets outside of the stadium. Jews were punched, kicked, stabbed, and thrown into the river while mobs attempted to lynch others. Jews were brutally pursued with a bloodlust reminiscent of October 7 in what can only be described as a modern-day pogrom.”
“In fact, this violence occurred on the eve of Kristallnacht, known as ‘The Night of Broken Glass,’ which happened on November eighth through the eleventh in 1938,” he continued. “And last week the Jews were once again under attack in Europe. The world knows the details of what happened because the attackers filmed their assault and proudly posted it online.”
“Wake up, America,” he exhorted. “What do you think would have happened to the Jewish people had Israel not sent planes to rescue them? Where could they have gone? Nowhere but Israel.”
“For anyone who continues to be confused about Jewish hatred, let me be clear: This is what happens when you make anti-Semitism fashionable on a global scale,” he declared. “This is what happens when you normalize denigration, dehumanization, and isolation of the Jewish state and its people. Israel has always existed; it was created by God Almighty, the boundaries of which were recorded in the Bible.”
“The nation of Israel has always been the home of the Jewish people and it will always exist. If there is a line to be drawn, then draw the line around Christians and Jews, because we are one,” he proclaimed. “Israel lives: yesterday, today, and forever.”
Last week in Amsterdam, Israeli soccer fans were subjected to brutal, unprovoked violence, reminiscent of the darkest days of history. Innocent people were hunted, assaulted, and terrorized, echoing the horrors of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” which unfolded in… pic.twitter.com/7RsEqIJK4z
— Pastor John Hagee (@PastorJohnHagee) November 11, 2024
“Since Oct. 7, 2023, these Moroccan youths have participated in weekly anti-Zionist demonstrators through the streets of Amsterdam. Early Friday morning, their activism turned into violence when they attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv’s fans,” Leon de Winter, a political commentator for De Telegraaf, noted in The Wall Street Journal, adding, “In a news conference Friday, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema refused to utter the words Islam, Muslim or Moroccan.”
