The football riot in Amsterdam in November was not an antisemitic pogrom as was falsely reported. The masked assailants who were assaulting people were actually the Tel Aviv fans who are known from this incident and also previous matches for a history of violence, including assault, property destruction, rape threats, and hate crimes against Muslims and Arabs. The citizen journalist, Annet de Graaf, who took the footage is trying very hard to correct the disinformation of Tel Aviv fans being the victims, including giving an interview to Scotland’s The National.
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Calling a football riot a pogrom is an insult to victims and survivors of actual pogroms when it was a football riot that the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans started. This incident led the Dutch counterterrorism agency to designate Israel as a foreign security threat because the Israeli government very quickly pushed a false narrative in reports sent directly to Dutch journalists instead of released through official channels.
It’s common practice to ban football fans who are known threats to public safety, and Birmingham authorities have banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before the match next month, and Keir Starmer is trying to have the ban overturned.





















