You have posted BBC reports yourself in this thread - and many of them used 'the anniversary of Kristallnacht' to create an impression that Nazi-like 'Jew hating' mobs were swarming around Amsterdam. So did most of the other major western news outlets - including Sky, The Guardian and many US online papers. They also echoed the Netanyahu government lines that what happened in Amsterdam was a 'pogrom'.Originally Posted by JamesWales
Most of the mainstream media completely bought into a narrative that whitewashed the Israeli fans' actions, that misrepresented the events (including the inversion of reality highlighted in the Owen Jones YouTube piece), promoted the idea that Israelis and European Jews are eternal victims and different rules and judgements must apply to them, and deflected political and media attention (with the full connivance of politicians and the media) from the latest atrocities committed by Israel in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank - where the actual pogroms are taking place.
Interesting too that the US and European right and far right are falling over themselves to echo and amplify every propaganda line that comes out of Israel. We live in an era where Israel finds its key allies in Geert Wilders, Tommy Robinson and Marine Le Pen as well as Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Ursula Von der Layen. In the old days it was just apartheid South Africa!
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