Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I heard these Israelis were going around looking to pick a fight?

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  • 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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    • 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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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On the ground reporting from Dutch young journalist Bender: youtu.be/ySHIOYyJ95A See for yourself what happened and how these hooligans came to our town to riot. This has nothing to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with racist football hooligans supporting Israels actions in Gaza

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  • raoul@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This kind is doing a better job as a journalist than 90% of the profession.

    They have a donation page. I just dropped them some coins.

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