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.”
— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) November 10, 2024
In other words, they changed it to be more sympathetic to the Israeli rioters who instigated… https://t.co/bP8HEbZoAJ pic.twitter.com/ZY6xHkZfE5
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.”
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!
— Jalal #CeasefireNow (@JalalAK_jojo) March 7, 2024
Zionism is a scourge.pic.twitter.com/6uRvxl1ggm
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!
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:
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) November 8, 2024
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
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
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