Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com
The corporate media was filled with wall to wall coverage of fights that broke out in Amsterdam this Thursday night, ignoring all the relevant content and concocting a story that presented events as an antisemitic pogrom. Western leaders lined up to condemn the alleged antisemitic attacks, which amount to a complete inversion of reality and tantamount to a hoax.
While the corporate news media would have you believe that innocent Israeli football (soccer) fans were subjected to unprovoked “antisemitic” attacks on the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the facts paint a rather different picture. Not only is there no evidence of antisemitism as a motivating factor behind the violent incidents that occurred, but the Israeli football fans were actually the first ones to attack and were motivated by anti-Arab racism.
It all started when Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv football team were set to play a Dutch team, Ajax. In order to support their sports team, thousands of diehard Israeli fan flew out to Amsterdam in order to watch the game. However, these Israelis were far from peaceful. While they headed to the stadium, as well as after the game was finished, they were filmed chanting “death to Arabs” and “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”.
Before the beginning of the football match, which the Israeli team lost 5-0, the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans refused to honor a moment of silence for the victims of the catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain, instead cheering and then allegedly setting off fireworks. After the game, the Israeli football hooligans took to the streets of central Amsterdam and faced off with the Dutch police. Israelis attacked Dutch people and Dutch-Arabs, as eyewitnesses testified that the hooligans were looking for a fight.
In fact, they even attacked a Moroccan taxi-driver, before they continued on to tear down Palestinian flags from private property in the city. As documented by a 14-year-old Dutch reporter — who probably did the best job at covering the events that transpired that day — Israeli football hooligans also chased down bystanders with wooden planks, metal pipes and rocks. In addition to this, some of the Israeli hooligans were allegedly soldiers, prompting Tel Aviv to ban military personnel from traveling to the Netherlands, while it was reported in Israel’s own media that Mossad Agents were amongst the football hooligans for protection.
All that is mentioned above is backed up by extensive video evidence, yet even when the corporate media mentions some of what was noted above, they still frame the events as if Israelis were randomly attacked. Going a step further, the Western media and governments claim that antisemitism was the motivating factor without any evidence whatsoever of the violence being related to hatred of Jewish people.
Evidently, what happened in response to the racist chants, destruction of property, and violent attacks carried out by the Israeli fans, was what we have seen plastered over social and broadcast media. Beginning with a pro-Palestine counter protest, groups of young men — primarily Moroccan’s and Tunisians — decided to confront the Israeli hooligans, chase them down and beat them up. The videos shared across social media feature Israeli men being knocked unconscious, running away, crying, screaming, offering to pay money to the young men who attacked them, before being told say “free Palestine”.
In one of the exchanges, one man says “this is for the children mother****er” while standing over an Israeli who is cowering on the floor, while another featured a man screaming “now you know how it feels” after yelling about Gaza. Almost every video of the young men beating up Israelis also contained statements about Palestine and Israel’s ongoing genocide, not a single video had any cursing of Jews or Jewish identity, in either Arabic or English.
After hours of Israelis being beaten up, the Israeli government declared it was sending two civilian airliners with medical supplies and an evacuation team, so that they could rescue their citizens. A total of 5 Israelis were hospitalised, while dozens were said to have been injured, prompting the Dutch authorities to arrest over 60 people connected with the violence.
Yet when the Amsterdam police commissioner spoke publicly about the issue, he accurately depicted the events as being preceded by Israelis attacking property and making provocative chants. He even noted that the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters had lit a taxi on fire.
In addition to all of this, Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters are well known for their fascist and openly racist views, on top of their violent tendencies. As an example, in 2014 the Israeli club hired an Arab-Israeli player called Mahran Radi, triggering the team’s own supporters to berate the player every single game and chant “We don’t want Arabs at Maccabi!” and “Radi is dead.” The Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters also proceeded to write these chants in graffiti around the city and stadium. The harassment occurred until Mahran Radi was forced to leave the team, which has never hired an Arab player since.
The team, along with ‘Beitar Jerusalem’, are known to have pro-Netanyahu fascist hooligans as there supporters and they do not hide it, which is why “death to Arabs” and other lines inciting genocide in Gaza are part of the teams’ popular songs and chants….