If you want to be a football hooligan you should be an Israeli football hooligan – then Israel will give you compensation if you get injured

 The press & the world’s leaders ignored the racist attacks of Tel Aviv Maccabi Fans & concentrated on the Justified Reaction to these Fascist Thugs

When Lies & Disinformation Become the Norm It Means That We Have Entered an Era of Permanent War – What happened in Amsterdam was not a Pogrom but Israeli thugs getting a taste of their own medicine

Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans

Truth they say is the first casualty of war and this has been particularly evident in the coverage of the fight back by Dutch citizens when attacked by Israel’s racist football fans.

Once again ‘anti-Semitism’ has proven to be the false anti-racism of the right. It is the only ‘racism’ that they are concerned about. Ursula von der Leyen, the far-right German President of the European Commission couldn’t restrain herself. It was all about ‘anti-Semitism’. Nothing about attacks on Arabs or Dutch citizens.

What von der Liar was saying that any amount of anti-Arab racism and attacks on Arabs was ok, but if the victims should fight back then that would be ‘anti-Semitism’.

90 years ago this plastic von Pappen figure would have been complaining about the Jews of Germany. The idea that von der Liar would have stood out to oppose Nazi anti-Semitism is wishful thinking. The Nazis were put in power by the German conservative Deutsche National Volks Party of which Liar’s Christian Democrats are the heir.

Another pip squeak to put his oar in was Dutch Prime Minister, Dick Schoof, who decried “antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens.”

Excellent short Owen Jones podcast

It is one of the talents of our rulers that they can spout any amount of verbiage without actually saying anything. Even Holland’s King, Willem-Alexander got into the act which proves that there is no fool like a Royal Fool.

history has taught us how intimidation goes from bad to worse, with horrific consequences. Jewish people must feel safe in the Netherlands

What history has taught us is that any group of people can become racists and genocidaires, Jewish people included. Racism is not a biological inheritance. 

This is the senile fool who said he'd seen photos of the heads of severed babies after October 7 until it was 'walked back' by the White House  - Biden is a genocidal liar

What Schoof and Willem-Alexander forget is that they represent the Dutch State which bent over backwards to collaborate with the Nazi occupation, unlike Denmark nearby. The Blue Police, the predecessors of today’s Dutch Police thugs, took an active part, alongside the Gestapo, in winkling out Jews in hiding. I really don’t think we need lessons from the heirs of Nazi collaborators.

Anne Frank was not a Zionist but unfortunately Zionists have colonised all the holocaust memorial organisation. Anne considered Zionists as freaks. All the so-called holocaust organisations have echoed to the same lies

Instead of pointing out that Israel’s fans got a dose of their own medicine Schoof wittered on about anti-Semitism. As did Starmer and Lammy.

It would be too much to expect Lammy, the Black face of imperialism to come out for once with an original thought

Sky News Deletes Video and Substituted a Lying One Instead

Sky News has edited and re-uploaded a new version of their video on the violence in Amsterdam, claiming the previous edit “didn’t meet Sky News’ standards for balance and impartiality.”

In other words, they changed it to be more sympathetic to the Israeli rioters who instigated… https://t.co/bP8HEbZoAJ pic.twitter.com/ZY6xHkZfE5

— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) November 10, 2024

ISRAËLISCHE HOOLIGANS ZETTEN AMSTERDAM OP ZIJN KOP (ENG SUB) 

As Jonathan Cook wrote:

We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News’ reporter was one of the only to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism.

But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn't "balanced". The channel then heavily re-edited the segment and issued a new version that presented the footage – now wrongly – as evidence of Dutch locals attacking Israeli fans.

That was crucial to shoring up the false “antisemitism” and “pogrom” narratives spread by western politicians and the establishment media.

Here's where it gets even more disturbing. The Dutch photographer interviewed by Jones says she was interviewed by Sky News about her footage before the second, re-edited report was aired.

In other words, not only was Sky's reporter correct in her first account of the events in Amsterdam, but Sky's news editors back in London knew exactly what the footage showed too – because the Dutch woman who filmed it had told them.

And yet Sky's news team still edited a correct news report to make it incorrect.

The only conclusion one can draw is that they did so to mislead their audience. They didn't make a mistake. They didn’t act out of ignorance. They knowingly aired disinformation. They intentionally peddled fake news.

In other words Sky News deliberately lied to its viewers.

Britain’s prostitute press, almost unanimously led with the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks on Israel’s racist hooligans rather than what sparked the counter attacks.  Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, now Spiked ‘journalist’ and the Koch Brothers prostitute, Brendan O’Neill, informed us in The Telegraph that 'pogroms have returned to Europe, yet the ‘anti-racist’ Left are silent.' Presumably attacks on Moroccans and Arabs don’t count as pogroms because they are O’Neill’s untermenschen.

War criminal Blinken has prevented the State Department confirming Israeli war crimes - this man deserves the same penalty as the Nazi war criminals experienced at Nuremberg. Anti-Arab violence and genocide doesn't bother him 'antisemitism' does

The BBC, the Voice of the British Establishment, for which it acts as a well paid harlot, naturally only focussed on the well-deserved kicking that Israel’s fans got. But even their occasional reference to the Israeli fans violence was too much for the far-right Spectator.

Only the Daily Mail, in its first headline mentioned the violence of the Israeli football fans.  However it soon fell in with the rest of the pack.

The Guardian did likewise. In its article on more than 60 arrests, none of them football hooligans, there were just 2 out of 34 paragraphs that explained that the cause of the violence was the Israeli fans.

Dutch man being beaten up by Israeli football hooligans - but if u mention it you are anti-Semitic

So Maccabi hooligans come into Amsterdam, abuse and assault its citizens, make them feel unsafe in their own city, and all the Western leaders bend over and apologise to them for fake antisemitism when they should have condemned their behaviour and stood with the actual victims.…

— Maryam (@monothiest24) November 11, 2024

 

A social media video verified by Reuters showed Maccabi fans setting off flares and chanting “Olé, olé, let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. The police chief said a large crowd of Maccabi supporters had then gathered on Dam Square on Thursday lunchtime and there had been “fights on both sides”...

One Amsterdam resident, Barbara Weenink, said she had found the behaviour of Israeli fans threatening. Weenink, who has demonstrated at pro-Palestine events, said she was warned not to go out with a keffiyeh on that evening. She did not see the events after the match but had seen Israeli football fans before it. “I saw the Israeli fans walking here before the match – I found it very threatening,” she said.

16 year old Dutch Boy’s Fearless Reporting Puts the World Press to Shame

Dutch Police Chief statement about some of the violent Israeli football fascists

The only Jewish paper to have a more balanced coverage of what happened in Amsterdam was The Forward, America’s oldest Jewish paper and formally a Bundist paper. It’s article talked about the ‘weaponisation’ of Dutch Jews’ fear and how ‘Many in the country’s small Jewish community say the incident was stripped of context’.

Jelle Zijlstra, who is Jewish and works as a community organizer in Amsterdam, made a post that went viral on Instagram stating that “multiple truths can exist at the same time.” It highlighted both the assaults on Israelis and footage of the fans shouting “F— Palestine” the night before.

“There was definitely antisemitism involved in some of the events that took place,” Zijlstra said in an interview. “Were Jews attacked in the streets? Yes, but those Jews were also violent hooligans.”

https://youtu.be/_LsYMpuYh3s

Israeli football thugs tearing down a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam

The Forward observed that:

some Dutch Jews noted that roving bands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights marauding through the city center chanting racist anti-Arab slogans, climbing a facade to rip a Palestinian flag off the second story of an apartment building and assaulting a Moroccan taxi driver.

Forward’s article at least made an attempt to speak to those on the ground even if it didn’t interview any of the Arab attackers. It wrote

Ami Shuman, a photographer for the right-wing Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, said he was trapped with his son while trying to escape the violence Thursday night, and that they eventually had to be escorted back to their hotel by the police.

“We saw violence, we saw people with black eyes, deep cuts under their eyes, we saw someone accidentally hit by a police officer, and a woman crying,” Shuman told The Times of Israel. “They came in masses, running through the alleys.”

Forced to answer for Israel

Waterman, who also works as a strategic adviser to a local nonprofit called Jewish Social Work, spent Friday helping Israeli fans who volunteers had ferried to a safe location provided by a Jewish sports club in Amsterdam.

He noted that the violence appeared to have been targeted only at the Israeli visitors, and not Dutch Jews or Jewish institutions. But Waterman said many in the community were nonetheless shaken, especially after a year in which they have faced a spike in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the start of the war in Gaza.

Waterman said many Dutch Jews are treated like representatives of Israel, a special burden in a country of only 30,000 Jews. “You might be the only Jewish kid in your school and kids say, ‘Hey, what are you people doing in Israel? Why are you killing kids?’” he explained. “It can force you to defend things you don’t necessarily agree with.”

Local Amsterdam residents tell how they were assaulted and menaced

Israeli football thugs shouting 'we will rape your girls' - if u oppose this it makes u antisemitic

The answer is quite simple. Jewish bodies should dissociate themselves from Israel’s genocide and say that Zionists don’t speak in our name. It’s quite simple. When Jews defend Israel’s genocide, in the name of Jews, they can’t complain if there is a counter-reaction.

The article also mentioned

Antisemitic chants are also common at Dutch soccer stadiums. “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,” used to be a popular cheer for fans of teams playing Ajax, because of its association with Jews. It has fallen out of favor in recent years, but other derogatory songs have taken its place.

“I’ll speak to fans who assure me that they are not antisemitic, they’re just doing it because of Ajax, but there’s definitely some other factors,” said Boaz Krone, a social worker in Amsterdam.

If there are anti-Semitic chants they should be condemned but they are not dissimilar to similar chants at Tottenham. But because Israel claims that it represents all world Jews it is incumbent upon Jews to dissociate themselves from the horror that Israel represents. If they don’t they can’t complain. You can’t have your cake and eat it.

Meanwhile, far-right Dutch politicians, who took control of the government in July, have positioned themselves as protectors of Holland’s Jews by seizing on antisemitism from Arab and Muslim residents of the country.

A mob of Israeli thugs (fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv) attack a Palestinian in ATHENS, GREECE!

A mob of Israeli thugs (fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv) attack a Palestinian in ATHENS, GREECE!

Zionism is a scourge.pic.twitter.com/6uRvxl1ggm

— Jalal #CeasefireNow (@JalalAK_jojo) March 7, 2024

84 years ago when the Nazis occupied The Netherlands, the NSB, the Dutch National Socialist Organisation, began attacks on the Jews. It was the working class in Amsterdam who repelled them and then went on General Strike. I have no doubt that if Wilders had been alive at the time, he would have been a prominent Dutch national socialist.

Ofer Casif, the only Jewish member of the Knesset who isn't a Zionist has been suspended for 6 months for opposing Israel's genocidal racism - this is Israeli democracy in action

But our lazy, lying press could not even be bothered to interview Dutch Jews about what they thought of the matter. They were content to take their cue from the stuffed dummy Starmer and his Black parrot Lammy, whose only concern is to keep in step with Senile Biden.

The Israeli fans were attacked, not because they were Jewish but because they were Israeli thugs. A small point but one lost of the mass media. If this had been an anti-Semitic attack then it’s strange that Amsterdam’s 14,000 Jews haven’t received similar treatment.

Maccabi fans thought they could behave in the same way as they do at home where racist chants and thuggery are dealt with by a Zionist police force that only ever arrests Palestinians. Hopefully they learnt a valuable lesson and will keep their bigotry to themselves next time they have an overseas outing.

But what does the coverage by the Lying Press tell us about their coverage overall?  This wasn’t a one-off mistake but a continuation of  their refusal to cover a year long genocide in Gaza.  Or when they do cover it they frame it as Hitler’s sorry Israel’s ‘right to self-defence.’

Imagine Vladimir Putin had declared that the Ukrainian resistance was ensconced in hospitals and proceeded to bomb them. It doesn’t take much imagination to forecast their outraged reaction.

The 'Green' Foreign Minister of Germany, Anna Baerbock, shows that she's no different from the other bourgeois  parties in her anti-Arab racism and support for Zionist genocide

The images from #Amsterdam are horrific and deeply shameful for us in Europe. The outbreak of such violence against Jews crosses all boundaries. There is no justification whatsoever for such violence. Jews must be safe in Europe. - @ABaerbock https://t.co/5dk4C8k6ap

— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) November 8, 2024

Imagine that Putin declared half of Ukraine a free-fire zone like the North of Gaza and refused the entry of food, fuel and water we would rightly compare him to the Nazis. After all it was Hans Frank, the Governor-General of the General Gouvernment, Poland, who declared a policy of ‘death by hunger’.

Yet if you even dare mention a comparison between the Nazis and Israel you will, like me a month ago, be arrested for a ‘racially aggravated offence’.  You see Israel and Zionists are a race according to the thick, racist coppers of the Metropolitan Police.

If von der Leyen had been alive 90 years ago she would have been the first to justify Hitler’s actions. The German State has always loved holocausts – from that in Namibia, Ost Afrika and Armenia to the Nazi holocaust and now Israel’s holocaust. Indeed it is hard to think of a holocaust that the German state hasn’t smiled upon.

The fact that those who claim to inherit the memory of the holocaust victims are perpetrating a holocaust themselves normalises and trivialises what happened during the Final Solution. See my article in Al Jazeera ‘Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza?’

The Zionists, who did their best to obstruct the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust understand full well the motives of Olaf Scholz and von der Leyen. When Israelis chant, as the Maccabi fans did ‘death to the Arabs’ or ‘there is no school in Gaza because there are no children’ they demonstrate that the majority of Israelis can now be called Judeo-Nazis. ‘Death to the Jews’ was the favourite chant of German and Polish anti-Semites in the 1930s. The fact that the Dutch Police, acting in the best traditions of the Blue police, failed to arrest any Tel Aviv Maccabee fans testifies to their racism.

See Sana Saeed’s No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amsterdam. Here’s what really happened.

“Olé, olé!

Olé, olé, olé!

Let the IDF win and fuck the Arabs!

Olé, olé!

Olé, olé, olé!

Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!”

These are the sentiments that Starmer, Lammy Biden and all the ratpack who ‘lead us’ are happy to ignore. Only racism against Jews counts these days. Why? Because Jews are the moral alibi, the tame colonial pets, for the West’s military adventures in the Middle East. Unfortunately most Jews are too stupid to understand this.

As Mouin Rabbani noted

Not only do the Israeli club’s supporters have a reputation for genocidal racism (their motto is “Death to the Arabs”, supplemented with the chant, “May Your Village Burn”), but many of those who traveled to Amsterdam have during the past year served in the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

But then ministers in the Israeli government, such as Ben Gvir and Smotrich, have demonstrated with and chanted ‘death to the Arabs’ themselves. Ben Gvir had a poster on his wall of Baruch Goldstein, who opened fire in the Ibrahimi Mosque killing 29 worshippers. This is the kind of racist slime that makes up Israel’s government.

Britain’s media, unlike Al Jazeera, has wilfully ignored the destruction of hospitals and schools, the murder of children, the bombing of tent encampments and all the other genocidal acts of Israel because they are propagandists for the imperialist axis of the USA, Britain and Germany. Never have our rulers stood so naked.

Our task is to build the Palestine solidarity movement but also to make clear what we stand for. We must say explicitly that Israel, like South Africa under Apartheid, is a failed state that cannot be reformed. It has to go. Unfortunately the past year of genocide has taught Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign absolutely nothing.

The forthcoming AGM in 2025 has a plan and ‘strategy’ document, if one can call it that, which simply repeats past failures. New thinking is not and will not be PSC’s forte as long as it remains in the hands of a tiny political clique.

What is clear, though not to Ben Jamal or PSC, is that the British state fully supports Israel come hell or high water. No amount of polite lobbying is going to change that.

Putting people like Starmer, (a human representation of the police state) and Lisa Nandy on your platform doesn’t advance the cause one iota. The minimum PSC can do is to adopt an anti-Zionist stance and jettison the 2 state solution as an illusion that acts as a smokescreen for continued Israeli colonisation and ethnic cleansing.

When Britain’s media do focus on Gaza they always take care to put it in the context of the October 7 break out from the world’s largest prison. The lives of Israelis are worth more than a hundred if not a thousand Palestinian lives. This is precisely what Ben Gvir’s spiritual mentor, Rabbi Dov Lior, Chair of the Settlement Rabbis, said.

A Jewish fingernail is worth a thousand non-Jewish lives

 If there is one takeaway from Gaza it is that Zionism and the Israeli state have a limited shelf life. Its main supporters are far-right politicians or neo-Nazis – Viktor Orban, Trump, Geert Wilders, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer. After all if you are a neo-Nazi what is there not to like about the Israeli ethno-religious state?

But all is not doom and gloom. Spare a thought for your average Tel Aviv Maccabi hooligan. Having been bested by those ‘dirty’ Arabs and terrorised for once, they are at least eligible, as victims of a ‘hostile action’ to compensation from Israel’s National Insurance.

'Victims' of 'anti-Semitism' arrive back in Israel 

‘Traumatised’ Maccabi Tel Aviv fans arriving at Ben Gurion airport from Amsterdam singing:

Ole ole, ole ole ole
Let the IDF win & fuck the Arabs
Ole ole, ole ole ole
Why is school out in Gaza?
There are no children left there!”

pic.twitter.com/wPGeKhCekF

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) November 8, 2024

Compensation for injured racist thugs

But dear readers please don’t fret or worry for Israel’s beat up hooligans.  Israel's National Insurance will ensure that they get ‘mental assistance for the victims of violent actions perpetrated in against Israelis in Holland.’ Eat your heart out you anti-Semites!  Only in Israel could it pay to be a racist football thug. 

Tony Greenstein