Following antisemitic violence in Amsterdam, UN chief condemns 'anti-Muslim bigotry'

Portuguese socialist António Guterres seems determined to turn his mandate as UN Secretary-General into a constant scandal.

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The Portuguese socialist's latest controversy so far concerns the wave of anti-Semitic violence unleashed by Palestinian Nazis in Amsterdam on Thursday, November 7, in which Israeli citizens were persecuted in a clear example of a pogrom in the 21st century.

Yesterday, the UN website published Guterres' response to a question posed at a press conference: "in response to questions we have received earlier today, I can tell you that the Secretary-General was shocked by the violence in Amsterdam following the football match between Dutch and Israeli teams. He condemns all forms of antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry."

Guterres' condemnation is astonishing. What happened in Amsterdam was a wave of violence against Jews perpetrated by Muslims, mostly immigrants from Islamic countries. A wave of violence close, by the way, to the anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, perpetrated by the Nazis in Germany on the night of 9-10 November 1938, and during which the Jewish community in that country experienced a wave of violence and terror that was a clear foreshadowing of the Holocaust that would come later.

Guterres' statement yesterday is as if, after Kristallnacht, he had condemned "anti-Semitism and anti-Nazi bigotry." Just like his statements last year on the war provoked by Hamas in the Middle East, what Guterres is doing is a way of equating aggressors and victims, once again. The UN has had some very deplorable secretaries-general, but this Portuguese socialist seems determined to surpass all his predecessors in vileness.

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Photo: ONU.