Earlier this month, the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team traveled to Amsterdam for a match with one of Holland’s top clubs, Ajax. Hundreds of Israeli fans traveled there as well to cheer their team on. These supporters are known as not only soccer hooligans, but as vicious, racist, genocidal thugs who sing, shout, taunt and flaunt their hatred against “Arabs” (the generic term Israelis use to designate anyone Arab (including Palestinians). They belt out these slogans before, during and after matches, whether they win or lose.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans vandalized homes in Amsterdam with graffiti, and of all places, they chose to do it in Buitenveldert, the modern Jewish Quarter of the city! https://t.co/sdaAirdiTq pic.twitter.com/BC3tYMF2m8
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) November 9, 2024
The night before the Amsterdam match, they congregated in the heart of the city, Dam Square, to go hunting for Arabs to beat up. Preferably Palestinians. They beat Moroccan taxi drivers with pipes and rods. They burned vehicles, sprayed graffiti (even on Jewish homes!), and tore down Palestinian flags. Contrary to the shrieking from Netanyahu and the slipshod reporting of global meeting, this was no an anti-Israel or anti-Semitic pogrom. This was precisely the opposite: it was an anti-Arab pogrom. There was no appreciable resistance that night.
The response came the next night when, after the match, which Maccabi Tel Aviv lost 5-0, Arabs searched out Maccabi fans and responded in kind. There were no references to the fans’ religion. The anger and rage was directed against them being Israeli.
Dutch videographer, Annet De Graaf filmed the Maccabi riot and the images clearly show figures dressed in the yellow and blue team colors, rampaging through the streets and beating random Dutch passersby.
Other reports said Israel planned to send a “rescue mission” to return the Israeli “victims” home. One Dutch outlet erroneously reported Israel was sending “Mossad agents” to secure their safety. Actually, the only Israeli agency which protects Israeli leaders and travelers abroad is the Shin Bet. More sloppy journalism.
When Netanyahu saw her video, he immediately cried “anti-Semitism.” A panic ensued as Dutch politicians and the king himself rushed to condemn the purported anti-Jewish violence. The mayor, who represented the left-Green Party, decried it in those terms and global media followed suit. There were literally thousands of stories following the same narrative. Some even claimed an Israel was “taken hostage,” as if Amsterdam had become an annex of Gaza.
Video of the fans’ return to Israel showed them shouting genocidal slogans: where are the schools in Gaza? there are none because there are no more children.” There were taunts of rape, etc. A disgusting display characteristic of the general tenor in Israeli society.
Such behavior happens there on a regular basis. Jerusalem Day is a paroxysm of Arab hatred, with tens of thousands of bloodcurdling thugs reeking of hate, marching through the city’s Muslim Quarter. A few years ago, after Israel closed Al Aqsa to Muslim worshippers and Palestinians protested, similar crowds of Judeo-thugs rampaged throughout the country on city streets hunting Arabs to beat mercilessly. The Amsterdam pogrom was an export of the genocidal hate seething within Israel.
Masterful hasbara
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema expresses regret for using the word “pogrom” at the internationally covered press conference the day after the clashes in the city, adding, “We were completely overtaken by Israel.”
Speaking to the current affairs show Nieuwsuur on Sunday night,… https://t.co/cCPYQKKWrO pic.twitter.com/8OVGjinJ6d
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 18, 2024
It didn’t matter that the mayor, who had denounced Arab hooligans, recanted and blamed Netanyahu for the rush to judgment. Other media outlets like the New York Times, which reported the story as an anti-Semitic pogrom didn’t even issue a retraction. The unspoken message is that Israel enjoys protected media status. While Arabs, Palestinians and immigrants enjoy no status whatsoever.
The media must learn to treat such stories with skepticism Nor should it publish provocative or sensational content until it can be verified by an independent source. Bibi Netanyahu, the IDF, etc. are NOT reliable sources. Not ever. If journalists don’t learn their lesson this time, they will (or should) pay the price over and over again. Unfortunately, they are rarely held accountable and the world moves on.
A Jewish organisation based in Amsterdam, Erev Rav, blames the Zio Israeli hooligans for what happened in Amsterdam
Why is the mainstream media not listening to these native Jews? pic.twitter.com/HbZw6STCp3
— ONE (@One_Dawah) November 8, 2024
A Dutch Jewish anti-Zionist group, Erev Rav, released a statement rejecting the prevailed media narrative that the riots were anti-Semitic. It reinforced my account above and that of other skeptical media outlets. It also reaffirmed a Jewish commitment to diversity and tolerance; and a rejection of Israeli genocide.
A masterful blow-by-blow account of the media cock-up concerning the incident:
EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam @pularjs pic.twitter.com/wrXwwC6WXz
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) November 15, 2024
Wilderism has a majority running Dutch affairs in the 2e Kamer (parliament) and delivered the new Prime Minister Dick Schoof, former Dutch intelligence head of AIVD. The 4th party NSC of Omtzigt performs as the fig leave to cover-up extreme xenophobia and pro-Israel bias in the coalition. A deputy-minister and two MPs have resigned post Maccabi Gate. Wilders has been supported for many ears by corporate media [De Telegraaf – banned post WWII for collaboration] located in capital Amsterdam and warmongering think-tanks. Ajax Football had a favorable disposition across the globe for its legendary icons of 1971-73 with trainer Rinus Michels and Johan Cruijff. Three European Cups in succession … no one complained it was the Joden club flying the Israeli flag abundantly agitating visiting clubs.
YouTube video headline was: Ajax’s ‘Super Jews’ keep on singing
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/05/football/anti-semitism-ajax-netherlands-spt-intl/index.html
Ugly backlash.
btw Dutch players of Moroccan descent heeft been an asset to Ajax and the National Team Oranje … some with dual citizenship choose for the country of their (grand)parents’ birth nowadays. Hakim Ziyech
There is no more than just one brief shot of dozens op ppl running towards someone, wihout any further context. Before they start running, the young vlogger says in his live-commentary “that they are picking up sticks so they can defend themselves against those attacking them”. There are many close-up shots of ppl attacking and hitting other ppl while shouting “cancer jew” and ppl throwing petrol bombs thru the windows of a tram, equally yelling “cancer jew”. A riot police officer who had been on duty all night states that he didn’t see any Jews provoking anyone. No one seems to be able to ascertain the scale of what happened beyond a few individual incidents.
If you don’t want to see, you won’t see anything.
Reports by journalists who watched, followed and videoed the riots from about the beginning show that the Israeli fans started the violence and quite violent it was. Also, shouting “Death to Arabs” and especially, “Why are schools not open in Gaza? because there are no children” is a bone-chilling call that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy,
It is particularly painful to come across people who are still looking to defend Israel’s atrocities and genocide; this at a point when I would not have thought any person would have the stomach to defend Israel.
There’s also footage floating around that apparently shows some of the Maccabi fans handing out black tshirts, allegedly in an attempt to disguise themselves so they can make it look like others are starting the violence, and let’s not even start to talk about the taxi driver they set upon.
@eric: you can always tell a hasbarist. They throw dust in your eyes hoping to distract you. Distortion, feints, distraction. Leading you away from what is always the truth. There are multiple videos. They all show yellow & blue shirted thugs swarming the streets beating passersby with rods & other weapons. There is no audio of anyone shouting “cancer jew.” As I understand it, in all of the videos of all the incidents there is only a single documented incident that involved anti-Semitism. A single one, out of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters. While among the Judeo-thugs virtually all of them spewed horrible racist filth.
Stop peddling your hopeless pathetic dreck. No further comments in this thread.
Horrible racist filth that they have chanted way before October 7th – the whole “death to Arabs” sing-song is an established part of the Israeli repertoire.
The reason more left-liberal Zionists dislike them, is probably more to do with the fact they, the right wingers, make them uncomfortable because of their bluntness, rather than ideological difference – both liberal and right Zionists would probably like to see the back of Palestinians and deny their existence, they just differ in tactics. Perhaps it’s similar to republicans and democrats, who are both out to maintain US imperialism.
I believe the excellent Katie Halper has recently linked to a Haaretz post by Ehud Olmert in which he essentially seems to disagree with this narrative about events in Amsterdam being an anti-Semitic pogrom.
Het Parool: https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/onrustige-woensdagnacht-in-amsterdam-mogelijk-verband-met-wedstrijden-europa-league~b69a3969/
The violence was covered by a young blogger Bender who covered the same scenes as Annet De Graaf, from a different angle, fully corroborating her video which was gaslighted for their convenience by the international corporate media. More than “sloppy journalism.” Lies and biased pro-Israel propaganda. Fascism, see history Wilders’ favourite De Telegraaf.
BREAKING: ICC The Hague Issues Arrest Warrants
https://apnews.com/article/icc-israel-hamas-warrants-netanyahu-palestinian-arrest-73c854d072e0a1a41b19b2cb2cdd07fa
My recent analysis …
Global Terror: Failure to Frog March the Bush Cabal
Much too late, but a major slap in the face of Mr. Zionist, son of Benzion and follower of Jabotinsky
https://besacenter.org/netanyahu-jabotinsky-begin-ben-gurion/
Today’s ICC decision is a marker in human rights history … indelible.
Will the EU shut airspace to flights of [alleged] war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant … a ban on all El Al flights into Europe? … a blockade around the Jewish State of Israel … will Israel face a global SUPER BDS boycott now, joining the Houthis 🇾🇪, Iraq 🇮🇶 and Iran 🇮🇷 ?
As I have written for two decades now … exploiting a divided Europe – Old and New – by forced NATO expansion …
Campaign to smear Dutch peace activists intensifies under Wilderism
Regular quotes in pro-Zionist media has been popping up more frequently. Anyone have a link to these reports, especially the most recent one about the “Amsterdam ’pogrom’ of ’Jew’ hunting?” 😖
Today Pax peace activist Thomas van Gool was smeared in Dutch media w/o any evidence. How fake accusations are reported is essential.
Geert Wilders is expected to visit occupied West Bank to meet terror minister Ben Gvir … the ICC decision should be the ax in the Wilders’ coalition soon.
Today the 4th coalition partner New Social Contract (NSC) holds a conference which will decide whether to continue support for rightwing xenophobic coalition. SHAME
@ Richard: it’s actually quite funny in a way that if you type into youtube “the pogrom that never happened”, your results are all the disengenious reporting about the events from legacy media outlets in the west.
Luckily the vast majority of the comments are calling out these outlets for making stuff up or openly lying about what happened. It is heartening to see on youtube at least.
You are using a Twitter account name @ihateyou and an organization call Erev Rav as sources.
Basically echoing your favorite echo chamber.
@ Danny Smith: So you’re arguing that an Israeli Twitter account offering eyewitness accounts of Israeli crimes & genocide and a Dutch Jewish anti-Zionist group testifying to what happened during an Israeli-incited melee in their home city are what? Wrong? If so, can you offer credible evidence to rebut them?