Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans

T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yup. The media is framing this as antisemitism, but it’s not, it’s anti-shitheadism. It’s in this article, but they’ve buried it:

  Amsterdam’s police chief said that Maccabi supporters set a Palestinian flag on fire and attacked a taxi a day before the match was set to take place.

  Ahead of the game, a Palestinian flag was ripped off a building in the city centre and riot police blocked pro-Palestinian supporters from marching toward the stadium, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS.

  Yeah, that’s what started it.

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A day before the match

    So a whole day later, and people organized an indiscriminate attack against Israelis…

    Sorry, you can’t support this unless you believe that violence is an appropriate response to another person’s national origin.

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    • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Violence is an appropriate response to another person’s violence

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      • django@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can’t just start hitting a random person of the same origin and claim this to be justified.

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  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We’re the same people that attacked the taxi and the flag the same people who were attacked? If they were the same people, it’s anti dickehead behaviour. If it’s other supporters, connected only by their nationality, then calling it antisemitism is not a stretch.

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• stink@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes they attacked an arab taxi driver and ripped down flags, as well as chanting genocidal songs

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have seen one video where someone tears down a Palestinian flag, but mostly I’ve seen videos of people on mopeds attacking people on foot.

    I am not ruling out that Israeli fans were the initial agitators, I’m just waiting to see more than one video of vandalism before I try to justify what happened here.

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    • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Cool downvotes, but anyone actually got any evidence that the claims I am critical of are false?

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