{"id":298672,"date":"2024-11-16T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T06:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298672"},"modified":"2024-11-18T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T08:17:17","slug":"is-israel-using-soccer-to-export-its-racist-political-model-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298672","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel Using Soccer to Export Its Racist Political Model to Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review Nov 15, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

For the second time in 8 days, hundreds of Israeli soccer hooligans attacked unidentified fans at a football match in Paris, France. A number of videos circulating on social media show swarms of young men\u2014mostly dressed in black with masks and stocking caps or draped in Israeli flags\u2014pummeling an unknown Frenchman<\/a> who was beaten to the ground<\/a>. The extent of his injuries remains unknown.<\/p>\n

The skirmishes took place at Thursday\u2019s UEFA Nations League soccer game between France and Israel at the Stade de France which drew the smallest crowd in history due to the threat of hooligan violence. But although the streets of Paris were heavily patrolled by thousands of police and security guards to protect the visiting Israelis, fans of the home team received no such security. When the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans began raining-down blows<\/a> on their unnamed victims, the police were nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

Some of the videos show terrified fans fleeing an area in the stands<\/a> that was overrun by a hostile Maccabi mob sprinting across the upper deck while thousands of fans \u201cBooed\u201d loudly from below. The scene seemed more reminiscent of the political street fights that took place in Weimar Germany in the early 1930s than a football match in 2024. The ensuing mayhem was described by analyst Arnaud Bertrand on his Twitter site:<\/p>\n

\u2026. There was a football match between Israel and France yesterday and this happened at the beginning of the match: a horde of Israeli supporters openly lynched some French supporters in the stands.<\/strong> Macron himself was in attendance at the match to show his commitment to \u201cfighting antisemitism\u201d after Amsterdam\u2026<\/p>\n

He made no public comment that I know of on these French supporters getting lynched in front of his eyes. And the police made no reported arrests. <\/strong>Had the reverse been the case, had this been some Israeli supporters getting lynched by a horde of French supporters, you can absolutely bet 100% that he (and all the French media) would have made a huge deal out of it. You cannot overstate the absurdism of it: because we\u2019ve so gaslighted ourselves around \u201cantisemitism\u201d and so distorted the meaning of it, Western countries would literally rather let our their own citizens get lynched on their own soil \u2013 in front of the president\u2019s eyes (!) \u2013 than face accusations being \u201cantisemitic\u201d<\/strong> in their own definition of the term. @RnaudBertrand<\/a> (video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Absolutely perfect illustration of what we enable with the way the media and the Western political class framed what happened in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

There was a football match between Israel and France yesterday and this \uf447 happened at the beginning of the match: a horde of Israeli\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tFvTxNZgJj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) November 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n