By Huthifa Fayyad and Areeb Ullah – Middle East Eye Nov 8, 2024
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.
Travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans stirred trouble on Wednesday and Thursday in different parts of of the Dutch capital ahead of their Uefa 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”.
Ahead of match on Thursday, fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were seen shouting: “Let the IDF [Israeli army] fuck the Arabs”.
The 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.
Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans who gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam sparked tensions by igniting a confrontation with pro-Palestine supporters on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/Q0GYvwm8pi
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The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, had also moved a pro-Palestine protest away from the stadium, which was planned by a group of demonstrators who wanted to express their discontent with hosting the Israeli team.
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.
Middle East Eye could not independently verify the footage.
A police spokesperson said five people were hospitalised and 62 arrested.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that 10 Israelis were wounded and that contact with at least two others had been lost.
Halsema on Friday said the exact figure of those injured and arrested overall was still unclear. She said authorities were still in the process of establishing the full extent of the incident.
Israeli fans violence
Israeli football fans in Amsterdam on Nov 7. Click to enlarge
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.
Earlier this year, rights group FairSquare had written to Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin and criticised the European footballing body of “double standards” for excluding Russian teams from its competitions since February 2022 but refusing to rule out making a similar move against Israel.
Nicholas McGeehan, who is a founder of FairSquare, highlighted the track record of racist chanting by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and criticised how Dutch authorities painted them as “innocent victims of antisemitism.”
“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.
“This does not excuse the violence that was meted out to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, but to present them as innocent victims of antisemitism is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
“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.”
Dutch politicians condemn own citizens
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof called the clashes “unacceptable antisemitic attacks” but failed to mention the assaults by the hooligans against Dutch citizens.
In a post on X, Schoof said he spoke with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and assured him “the perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted”.
Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim and pro-Israel leader of the largest party in the Dutch government, called the riots a “pogrom” and a “Jewish hunt”.
He also failed to mention the attacks by the Israeli hooligans and instead called for the arrest and deportation of what he described as the “multicultural scum” involved in the clashes.
Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians also branded the riots as antisemitic, with some comparing it to the 7 October Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
The prime minister said he ordered the sending of two rescue planes to the Netherlands to evacuate the fans.
The Israeli military said it was preparing to deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of Dutch authorities.
However, the military’s international spokesperson Nadav Shoshani later said on X the mission would not be departing to Amsterdam.
there are only 3 things we can do to stop this
1 kill the jew
2 kill the jew
3 kill the jew
you choose now
nice to know the israelis took a beating
i see Kemi Banenoch is now leader of our major political party
correct me if i am wrong
but wasnt this england ? v surely an english person could have been found ?
are we that under control we cant choose our own leaders ?
i ,mean that clown Kier Starmer isa total oaf, he has not got a clue
as as for visiting epsteins island with peter mandleson and jefrey epstein my god
i just despair
Another thing about it is this:
Do you see the way you’re now standing up in defence of the poor little invading arabs? Just as you’re now standing up in defence of the poor little palestinians, tens of thousands of which are also invading your country. Next week you’ll be shouting for the indians, the pakis, the chinese, the koreans, the filipinos and the haitians. And don’t forget the “indigenous” people, because you’re actually the invader in the country you were born in.
Maybe they should try that with British football hooligans. Brit hooligans would revert back to their far right tendencies and hate on the Jews, then all that psy-op by Tommy Robinson and his Israeli backers of turning the far right against Muslims will be wasted. They’ll still hate Muslims but they’ll really hate the Jews again, and there’s never been a case of raging Muslim football hooligans but clearly the Jews do it.
Article states : ‘provoked clashes with Dutch youth’. Yeah right, more like wog youth. They’re not ‘dutch’ but arabs/muslims. This is what the West or western/white civilization has devolved into– a multiethnic nuthouse/battleground of wogs & semitic scum (jews/arabs). Not much you can do about it, since there’s no Einsatzgruppen around anymore to liquidate this scum. Oh that’s right the Allied Christian-Commie cretins eliminated it. Good job retards.
The demons went looking for trouble and found it, got what they deserved. The usual cowardly crawling from the mainstream media and online zio shills in the reporting afterwards is par for the course now.
There is a video of a guy being beat up by a group, the victim is being portrayed as Israeli in the media. The Dutch lady who filmed it has said it was Israelis beating up a Dutch guy, she has asked them to report the facts if using her footage, which has, not surprisingly been ignored by the media.
notice the police won’t hunt down or arrest any of these jew or arab scum for rioting, but after whites rioted in england when some wog beast killed 3 white girls they arrested hundreds of whites though
The three chandala religions created by mongrel scum: judaism-christianity-islam
666
‘… Just as you’re now standing up in defence of the poor little palestinians …’
This is said in very poor taste, dan, given the hideous genocide the Palestinians are enduring. Or is your real name Moishe?
Everyone and everything is antisemitic a classic propaganda statement and tool used to justify carnage and special interests
Join the WLO! The White Liberation Organization. Who cares about mongrels and wogs and their issues. Free our white lands from Semitic and wog colonization-occupation now! Just as the Palestinians have the PLO, now us whites, thanks to our hero Nico, have the WLO.
jews in foreign lands are always a provocation, Sajans
and Mossad agents with agenda to sow discord + division
according to their master JHWH !
Lucy
yeah i don’t care about jews and wogs either. both need to be expelled from Europe. i think whites need to start focusing on their own racial predicament like the WLO says
thanks sophie well said
the killing of 2 french aid workers by IDF snipers last night brings the total to over 700 aid workers nurses doctors food distributors etc
killed by the jews
including several from my own hospital
PALESTINE HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/10/736943/Israel-Gaza-war-journalists-killed
time to shup the bile spewing kike up!
with a 4lb hammer
God bless you, Dr Patel, and keep you and yours safe.