The junk food will not tell the truth about the unrest in Dutch capital Amsterdam. Israeli thugs rioted and attacked Dutch citizens. The Netherlands move to ban protests. |
How can one country be the victim and the aggressor at the same time?
The United States will not break up with its abusive partner. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump will continue to be a sugar daddy to a racist apartheid ethnostate called Israel.
The Maccabi Tel Aviv football club is a major premier soccer club. The fans are extremely passionate about their team. The Israelis who travel to these games show out and it is dangerous.
The team went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. They won and the fans went to celebrate and riot.
During the riots, the fans would destroy property, attack local Dutch people and rip down Palestinian flags.
Fans got violent and of course the junk food media made it sympathetic to Israelis.
The Israeli government quickly condemned the events and called the violence as a pogrom and an antisemitic attack on Jews.
The Biden Administration quickly condemned it.
The Dutch government condemned it.
Some claimed it resonated with the tragic death of teen Anne Frank. The German teen wrote a diary of her family surviving in Amsterdam from the Axis Nazi forces before being betrayed by the owners. She and her sister Margot would die in a concentration camp of diseases.
Victims of the Amsterdam violence included Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, an Arab taxi driver, and pro-Palestinian protestors.
The events took place amid heightened tensions related to the Israel–Hamas war, and some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had been filmed pulling Palestinian flags from houses, making anti-Arab chants such as "Death to Arabs", assaulting people, and vandalising local property. Some Maccabi fans had also interrupted a minute of silence for the victims of the 2024 Spanish floods with chanting and whistles before the match. Calls to "Hunt Jews" were shared via social media groups after incidents the day before the match. Subsequently, Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were ambushed and assaulted in various locations across the city. The mayor's office said the perpetrators "actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them". The attacks also included instances of individuals being thrown into a canal, shot with fireworks, physically assaulted, and spat on. Five people were hospitalized, while 20 to 30 other supporters sustained minor injuries. Eight rescue flights were organized for the safe return of Israeli fans.
Police are aggressively arresting peaceful protesters. |
The attacks on Israeli fans were widely condemned as criminal and antisemitic by Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, King Willem-Alexander, and international leaders. The attacks and other acts by Israeli fans were also criticized for anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. A statement released by the Amsterdam authorities four days after the riots described the causes as "a poisonous cocktail of antisemitism, hooligan behavior and anger about the war in Palestine and Israel and other countries in the Middle East", placing blame both on the antisemitism of those who attacked Maccabi fans and the provocations of Israeli hooligans.
The junk food media seriously got it wrong. Like the 2024 presidential election, they relish on publishing the narratives that favor Israel, Republicans and of course Trump.
The UK's Sky News and Israel's Channel 12 edited reports and deleted social media posts referencing the anti-Arab behaviour of Israeli fans. Sky News removed references to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tearing down a flag, even though the three men on video could be heard speaking Hebrew, and deleted a reference to Maccabi fans attacking locals. Channel 12 similarly deleted a post about Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tearing down a Palestinian flag and having altercations with Muslim taxi drivers after the network faced backlash, including from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair, who asked, "Whose side is Channel 12 on?"
Crime pays. Israel and the United States have elected white privilege as their leadership and it will be their undoing. |
Dutch photographer Annet de Graaf filmed Maccabi supporters attacking Amsterdammers, but many media outlets initially misreported that the video showed an antisemitic mob beating Israelis, including The Wall Street Journal, the German tabloid Bild and the Tagesschau news programme of German public broadcaster ARD. DW and Tagesschau issued corrections. Many social media users disputed the initial reporting, and de Graaf addressed CNN, the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times in a viral post requesting that they also publish an apology and a correction.
Guardian columnist Owen Jones criticised media coverage of the events in Amsterdam for failing to cover the Israeli supporters' behaviour in the run-up to the clashes, saying, "if you condemn racist fanatics literally relishing in the mass slaughter of children, then you will be branded a hateful bigot." Marc Owen Jones, a disinformation expert and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, said that mainstream media, from The New York Times to the BBC, had given a "ridiculously skewed" version of events and "uncritically embraced what looked like an Israeli government press release". Australian news site Crikey ran an article from Jewish Council of Australia founder Sarah Schwartz, who referenced Sky News' decision as "a powerful example of distorted reportage", and criticised other coverage around the world, writing that "analogies to pogroms and the Holocaust obscure reality."
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