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The ridiculous and twisted Western government and media propaganda that is portraying the Zionist, ethno-nationalist, racist and terrorist football hooligans (many IDF soldiers and reservists and even Mossad agents) of Maccabi Tel Aviv as victims of some form of anti-Semitic attacks is beyond the reach of the hasbara manipulations of an increasingly ignorant and reactionary population in both the United States and Western Europe. This comes against a backdrop of increasing repression across Europe fueled by the US government’s total and unwavering support for the genocide of the Palestinians and its cooperation with the State of Israel to spread blatant lies to the international community in unison with many of its Western European allies. .

These so-called “fanatics” rampaged through the streets of Amsterdam shouting and chanting racist slogans and violently attacking local citizens. Eyewitnesses and video accounts demonstrate that they destroyed property throughout the historic center, like a violent mob indicative of the vile, genocidal, and terrorist country they represent. They tore Palestinian flags off buildings and chanted “Death to all Arabs,” “Fuck Palestine,” and “There are no schools in Gaza because all the children are dead,” as they terrorized the central canal district of this historic city. port. .

The reaction of Western governments and their Western media counterparts to the chaos intentionally created by Tel Aviv hooligans describes the stark reality facing any of us who hope for justice for Palestinians or freedom to dissent. Last week, the German Bundestag reaffirmed its recognition of the The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance A twisted Zionist interpretation of “anti-Semitism” as a tool to weaponize the current repression and repression of any voice that speaks out against the incredibly well-documented genocide that Israel has unleashed over the past year.

On a visit to Amsterdam in early 2024 we witnessed Palestinian solidarity at levels unrivaled in most of the rest of Europe. There were Palestinian flags literally everywhere we looked and we witnessed and participated in demonstrations every day starting on New Year’s Eve at the city’s official announcement of 2024. Amsterdam has a diverse population despite its reactionary leadership and right-wing and many of them from the The Palestinian diaspora residing here has helped create a unique and strong culture of solidarity.

The political leadership of the Netherlands is guided by a group of far-right Islamophobic fascists led by Geert Wilders, one of the European equivalents of the exceptionalist racism imbued by the American empire and Zionist Israel. As if reading from the script provided to them by Netanyahu’s criminal government, Amsterdam residents’ condemnation of what were described as “anti-Semitic” attacks against these rampaging Zionist ultras resonated like a chorus throughout the Western world, beginning with the King. and Dutch Prime Minister. Netanyahu condemned the attacks on “fanatics” as reminiscent of the 1938 pograms and warned that it was time to crack down on the “anti-Semitism” sweeping Europe, his words echoing incessantly from the White House on down.

President Biden:

“The anti-Semitic attacks against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam are despicable and reflect dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted. We have been in contact with Israeli and Dutch officials and appreciate the commitment of the Dutch authorities to hold the perpetrators accountable. “We must relentlessly fight anti-Semitism, wherever it arises.”

Antonio Blinken:

“There is no place in our world for anti-Semitic attacks like those that occurred yesterday against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. The United States supports the Dutch and Israeli governments…”

But this senseless propaganda is not limited to the US State Department, Netanyahu’s war cabinet and the Knesset, but permeates the entire Western media, where an alliance of Zionist spokesmen is well positioned and the entire willingness of the genocidal elite to spread disinformation with false information. cries of anti-Semitism and the victimhood of oppressors in a macabre circus of deception. While Russia has been excluded from international sporting events for its invasion of Ukraine, Western world leaders and international sporting bodies have turned a hypocritical blind eye to Israel’s genocide, despite growing calls from BDS and others. to ban Israel from participating in all international sporting events.

In Italy, these parasitic excuses for journalists have names, such as Enrico Mentana, director of the national television network LA 7; Maurizio Molinari, former director of La Repubblica, who is now a television commentator constantly on the Italian airwaves and who compared the defense of their city by the residents of Amsterdam from this Zionist mafia as the equivalent of “the attacks of 7 October arriving in Europe”, just as it has arrived so far. to spread lies on national television about Israeli hostages in the canal district; Davide Parenzo, talk show host and proud member of the Jewish Brigades of Rome, which has evolved from its anti-fascist past into a Zionist hate group now aligned with neo-fascists; and Paolo Mieli, former director of the Corriere Della Sera, who says Gaza was an independent country independent of the Israeli occupation, and a list of others. These ridiculous pillars of the fourth estate in Italy control the reins of a media that is always repeating the Israeli narrative as Netenyahu wants, while overlooking and distracting the masses from the well-documented genocide that continues to intensify every day.

These journalists have names throughout the Western world and can be found in all European and NATO countries, apparently more committed to defending the myths and lies of the Zionist project and its “final solution” than to the interests of their own. countries, and simply stating this fact is a direct violation of the The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance absurd guidelines on antisemitism. CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, the NYTimes and the Washington Post repeated Netanyahu and the US government’s lies about this latest orchestrated distraction from the real history they refuse to address: more than a year of the most brutal genocide of the 21st century. paid. and armed by the United States and with the full cooperation and help of Western countries such as Germany, Great Britain and Italy, and in the face of the total helplessness of the United Nations and international institutions to do anything to stop it.