Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Nov 8, 2024

There are 15,000 Jews that live in Amsterdam. They seemed to be just fine until some Israeli hooligans showed up…. Turns out when spend a year making your national anthem “may your village burn”, somebody’s gonna knock your teeth out because—unlike the ICC and the ICJ—the streets have a quicker judicial process… @yoUsaama

Zionist hooligans stormed through the streets of Amsterdam on Thursday tearing down Palestinian flags and intimidating passers by. The scene resembled the incidents that occur regularly in the West Bank where fanatical settlers bully and brutalize the sheep herders and olive growers who live on the land. According to an early report from the Middle East Eye:

Israeli hooligans provoked clashes with Dutch youth in Amsterdam on Thursday after they chanted racist anti-Arab slogans, tore down Palestinian flags and ignored a minute of silence for the Spanish flood victims.

Traveling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans stirred trouble on Wednesday and Thursday in different parts of of the Dutch capital ahead of their Europa League match against Amsterdam club Ajax.

Hooligans were seen removing at least two Palestinian flags from what appeared to be the front of local residents’ homes a night before the match, according to the AD daily newspaper.

An Arab taxi driver was also attacked by mobs who appeared to be with the Israeli fans, although police said they couldn’t identify the nationality of the attackers as no arrests were made.

A group of Israeli fans gathered in the Dam Square on Wednesday were filmed sparking confrontations with locals, shouting “Fuck you” at some of them and “Fuck you Palestine.” Middle East Eye

The spillover of racist bravado and thuggery onto the streets of a European capital should concern those who thought that toxic Zionist ideology could be contained within the Middle East. We now see the flaw in that theory. Fanaticism has no boudaries or geographic borders. These young people are emboldened by their own deeply-ingrained sense of superiority, a phenom that Washington elites have fueled for decades thinking it served their overall geopolitical interests. One can only wonder whether this latest explosion of racist violence will trigger some desperately-needed self reflection leading to a reset of the current policy. One can always hope. Here’s more from the MEE:

Ahead of match on Thursday, fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were seen shouting: “Let the IDF [Israeli army] fuck the Arabs”. They also refused to participate in a minute of silence before kick-off for at least 200 people who died in the Valencia floods.

The police have not made any known arrests of the Israeli fans involved in provocative act ahead of the match…..

Amid the provocations against Arabs in the city, clashes erupted between the Israeli hooligans and some youth before and after the match and late into the night.

Footage shared on social media showed people clashing with each other and police intervening. Other videos showed people attacking and chasing some of the Israeli fans…..

A police spokesperson said five people were hospitalized and 62 arrested. MEE

We can safely assume that this recent clash would not have taken place had the international community made some effort to enforce its own resolutions (242) requiring Jewish settlers to withdraw from (internationally-recognized) Palestinian land creating the opportunity for a two-state solution. But instead of using the tools at its disposal (economic sanctions and peacekeepers) the UN Security Council has allowed itself to fall under the coercive influence of Washington that effectively operates in the interests of the most fanatical elements in Israel. Washington has sabotaged every effort to resolve the Israel-Palestine crisis laying the groundwork for widespread social unrest, hooliganism and even genocide. The results of America’s deranged machinations and endless pandering are clear to see. Violence is breaking out everywhere. Here’s more from MEE:

Israeli far-right ultras are notorious for anti-Palestinian verbal and physical violence. In March, travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans brutally beat a man who was carrying a Palestinian flag in Athens ahead of their team’s match against Greek team Olympiacos….

“Israel’s most senior leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have openly courted far-right football supporters in Israel and have received their violent support in return. The well-documented racism and violence exhibited by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam mirrors the thuggery of the Israeli government in Gaza and Lebanon,” Mcgeehan told MEE....

“To rid European football of the type of genocidal chanting we saw from Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, Uefa should remind the Israel Football Association of its obligations under article 7(7) of its statutes to stamp out racist behaviour, and impose appropriate sanctions if the IFA does not take action.”MEE

So, the cat is out of the bag. Netanyahu and his allies actually encourage this obnoxious behavior and claim that anyone who opposes it is an antisemite. Anti-Muslim leader of the largest party in the Dutch government, Geert Wilders, who appears to share Netanyahu’s worldview, called the riots a “pogrom” while, at the same time, referring to the Arab victims as “multicultural scum”. Like we said, his views are closely aligned to those of the Israeli prime minister.

Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg summarised this week’s events in Amsterdam in an interview that appeared on Aljazeera on Friday. I transcribed his comments so readers could reflect more easily on what he had to say:

The important thing to remember here, is that this is not the Prime Minister pushing a narrative. This is the Israeli narrative at the moment. Palestinians—simply by “being”—are an existential threat to Israel, to everything Israeli, and also to the general ‘good fight.’ Israelis are shocked that the Dutch don’t realize that Israel is fighting their war for them. Israelis are fighting the existential threat that is threatening to take over Europe. And the fact that Israeli fans rampage and riot in the middle of Amsterdam, sing racist songs, climb the walls of private homes to tear down Palestinian flags; they are just doing what needs to be done. (Sarcasm) That is a major part of the Israeli condition at the moment; a complete rejection of the notion that actions have consequences. ….In this instance, the policies of Netanyahu and his government reflect the Israeli consensus. …This is not indoctrination by government power; this is what Israeli society actually thinks. We are under threat simply by being in the same space as Palestinians. We are perennial victims. What we do we do because we must, we do in self defense, or we do as part of ‘fighting the good fight’. If anybody doesn’t understand that, that’s their problem. We are not subject to the same laws and rules as everyone else and, perhaps more than anything else, this is a demonstration of how deeply ingrained in the Israeli psyche is the sense of ‘rightful impunity’ is. Israelis should not suffer the consequences of any of their actions. We ‘do what we do’ because we have no other choice. Ori Goldberg, comments on Zionist rampage in Amsterdam, Al Jazeera

Finally, here’s a short recap of what took place in Amsterdam by someone who was there and who seems like a credible witness:

The incident with the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam is only getting more insane because last night they were targeted after their horrendous behavior. And instead considering why UEFA (The Union of European Football Associations) let a country that is currently committing a genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, and whose football league is filled with racist teams who pride themselves on not employing Arabs. Well, instead of dealing with that, of course, Zionists and western media are pretending that this is somehow similar to the extermination of Jewish people in Europe in the 1930s and 40s. And, I am sorry, but this is ridiculous, and it diminishes the legacy of these horrors, because these people were not targeted on the basis of their Jewishness. They were targeted because Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are violent hooligans who were rampaging through the streets of Amsterdam, attacking people, tearing down flags, chanting about there being no children and schools left in Gaza, saying let the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) win so it can “Fu** the Arabs” and other horrors. These people need to be banned from international football.

The blame is squarely with UEFA. This isn’t some antisemitic outburst against Jewish people that came from nowhere. This comes from the racism that permeates Israeli society and the way in which this spills over whenever Israelis travel to other countries. And, as I say, UEFA is to blame, because this is not the first incident with Maccabi Tel Aviv fans…. In March they beat a Palestinian man unconscious in Athens before their game…. And, yet, instead of dealing with them, UEFA let’s this group of people who celebrate genocide and violently attack those who oppose it, continue to go around Europe and do more celebrating and expect people not to react. This is farcical and ridiculous, and the way it is being framed is just disgusting. @Teammichael777

As always, the media’s version of events is skewed in favor of the perpetrators. None of the mainstream coverage can be trusted. But you already knew that.

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