State of Play

The half-time run down of the current genocide

Chris Price
3 min readNov 8, 2024
By © European Union 2015 — Source EP — Source EP, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151051241

This is Geert Wilders, leader of the far right PVV in the Netherlands. Following the violence on the streets of Amsterdam on Thursday 7 November he wrote on X:

Looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets. Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable.

This is the same guy who wrote:

Is!am is violence, hatred and barbarism by nature. It is incompatible with freedom

He’s echoing the sentiments of the Mayor of Amsterdam and the King of the Netherlands who told the Telegraph

We failed Jews during football attacks like we did under the Nazis

This follows the fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv football club running amok in Amsterdam, declaring their hatred of Arabs and tearing down Palestinian flags. When the people of Amsterdam put them in their place, instead of being applauded for defending their city they have been maligned as antisemites by authorities in their own country and throughout Europe.

We need to take stock. In what upside down universe do the far right defend Israeli thugs on the basis that they are Jewish? When Geert Wilders is the face…

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Chris Price
Chris Price

Written by Chris Price

Singer, musician, writer, artist and thinker struggling to make sense of our dangerously dysfunctional society but infatuated with Morecambe Bay & it’s sunsets

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