Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam - Amsterdam city council member says ‘Maccabi hooligans’ instigated violence and attacked Palestinian supporters.
Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam - Amsterdam city council member says ‘Maccabi hooligans’ instigated violence and attacked Palestinian supporters.

Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam

Quite interesting to see which news org tells which side of the story
Seems the two parties obviously clashed, but hard to say who really started.
Probably both sides pushed each other into escalation.
But so many news stations reported only about anti semitic attacks and left out the shit the Israelis did - and here the other way round.
At least it's easy now to see which news org is biased to which side - although for most of them it was pretty much clear and in the open already
Israeli Maccabi fans started; Dutch police officer explaining (I also think the other is from UK?).
Would also like to show you multiple Instagram links from my other comment Another comment of mine.
From what I understand; Israeli fans started, Pro-Palestine supporters reacted and then the entire clash happened.
The main issue is (at least in The Netherlands), the official news outlets never explain what Israeli fans did, they victimize Israeli’s and claim that they’re are the hurted ones. Blames all the Pro-Palestine people only.
I saw this article posted earlier. The part about the Israelis first tearing down a Palestinian flag, attacking a taxi driver, and chanting slogans is buried way down in the article.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/08/amsterdam-bans-all-protests-after-attacks-on-israeli-football-fans
I think people should also be aware that Israeli football culture is notoriously violent and nationalist. Even by Israeli standards.
Is there a football culture that isn't? I just usually hear about bananas being thrown at black players and chants that they go home or other stuff like that.
If there's a football culture out there that doesn't regularly descend into horrible hooliganism, I'd like to know which one it is so I can pretend to know about them when people ask me if I like the sport.
This story is a good litmus test to see if groundnews is worthba dam. I suspect not. Anyone with a subscription care to post a screenshot?
I've actually no idea what ground news is.
Is this supposed to be neutral or why did you mention them specifically?
The fact that the reporting is lopsided does not mean both side are biased. The actual event can have been lopsided, and then one of the media sides is being impartial.
I'm not saying that's what happened, I don't know what "really" happened. Neither do you.
Yeah, true that
Still, interesting to see how media organisations are reporting
I wasn't taking sides in my statements. i Just was astonished, how different the reports were.
And that alone says pretty much about the news papers.
What actually is true, is probably a completely other thing altogether
Yeah, that's my read too. Even if they mention it in the report, it's "Israelis attacked" in the headline from a lot of the big sources.
Those jewish space lasers are looking more plausible every day lol