A pogrom in Amsterdam

In the same city where Anne Frank hid from the Gestapo, Jews were hunted and beaten yesterday by first- or second-generation Muslim immigrants. The victims were in Amsterdam to cheer an Israeli soccer team, and for this several were hospitalized and others had to hide in their hotel rooms with furniture barricading the doors.

Antisemitism in Europe and North America has many roots, including the Roman Republic, Christianity, Tsarist Russia, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and now Palestinians and their Arab and Ivy League enablers. "We shall overcome," promised Martin Luther King, "because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."

As Ernest Hemingway said in another connection, wouldn't it be pretty to think so?