Amsterdam banned all protests for a week. Many people went anyway. Love ♥️ this sign!
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
138 points (94.2% liked)
Interesting Global News
2596 readers
233 users here now
What is global news?
Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.
Post guidelines
Title format
Post title should mirror the news source title.
URL format
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. No social media posts
Avoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
- [email protected] - International and local legal news.
- [email protected] - Technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
- [email protected] - Interesting articles, projects, and research that doesn't fit the definition of news.
- [email protected] - News and information from Europe.
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Radio-Canada coverage and my reaction:
"The Israeli sang some racist songs and burned Palestinian flags then got beat up"
"Ok, good... They're mentioning it..."
"Here are some comments from Amsterdam residents."
[Insert four comments blaming the residents and not the Israeli]
"Dangit!"
The news I saw made it clear it was a bunch of fanatical "ultras" football fucks that saw some Palestine flags and started damaging property willy-nilly to take them down.
These bunch of shitheads call themselves fans, but all they know is to cause trouble and make a mess.
Not only that. They were chanting a bunch of horrible songs about arabs and palestinians. They also whistled and yelled through a minute of silence before the football match for people that died. They even attacked a middle eastern taxi driver, dragged him out of the car and beat him up.
The whole thing has been pissing me off...
Buried or omitted in most accounts was verified evidence of anti-Arab racism that had occurred prior to these events, including footage of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tearing down Palestinian flags, attacking taxi drivers, and chanting explicitly racist slogans like “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF fuck the Arabs.”
Minimizing anti-Arab racism and the provocations by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was not subtle. The BBC's extensive live blog of the unfolding events quoted 13 Israeli and Jewish sources while allowing just one or two alternative perspectives. Injuries to Israeli fans received detailed documentation and personal accounts, while the impact of racist abuse on local Arab and Muslim residents went largely unexplored.
Those chants were certainly racist and violent Especially the chant “Why is there no school in Gaza? There are no children left there.”
You must use very alternative sources, because all the mainstream coverage I saw was six paragraphs of "poor Israelis attacked by Arab mobs" and one paragraph of "prior to these attacks, the Israelis went around doing hate crimes".
There were two groups of shitheads. Some people of one group will be prosecuted by the extreme right government party, the other group was moved back to Israel in emergency.
But I want to repeat: there were multiple groups of shitheads