Badadmcmad
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Any comment on whether there were/are groups advocating a Jew Hunt? That question seems to have passed you by
I questioned the headline which claimed a whatsapp message calling for a 'Jew Hunt'. You didn't provide the article with the evidence of such a whatsapp. I have since seen other reports of groups looking for Maccabi supporters who had been vandalising and assaulting people. So in terms of the whatsapp group, I'm yet to see the evidence, but in terms of the vigilante action from pro-palestinians, that certainly is true.
I have also heard reports that the Maccabi fans were seeking Palestinians, attacking taxis and their drivers as well as smashing windows of buildings with pro-Palestinian messages or symbolism.
In the subsequent time, the mainstream media bias has largely shown itself to be unashamedly and unquestionably biased toward Israel (long has been the case). Notably Sky News deleting and then reposting a more Israel friendly version of what has been considered a reasonable and accurate original report.
That is on top of the egregious misrepresentation of the video that was highlighted in Owen Jones' piece. The videographer has gone on the record on several occasions to denounce the purposeful misrepresentation of the facts that she maintains were made clear to various outlets on release of the footage. More information has come to light showing Reuters is also guilty of a gross misrepresentation of the truth as it labelled the same video footage in a misleading fashion for distribution to other media outlets.
It is a matter of fact that Maccabi fans were enacting violence on the day before the match and particularly soon after the match where they were filmed obtaining improvised weapons such as planks of wood, metal bars and threatening locals as well as beating them.
Curiously, it was reported before the game that Mossad Agents were to join Maccabi team in Amsterdam.
Just in case: Mossad agents to join Maccabi Tel Aviv FC trip to Amsterdam
In the first year of a revamped format, the yellow-and-blue currently sit in 34th place out of 36 teams in the Europa League, with three losses from three games.
www.jpost.com
Maccabi Fans. of course, have a long and well documented track record of racist, violent behaviour. The chants were overtly genocidal, Islamaphobic.
It very much paints the picture that the Maccabi Fans were deliberately looking to provoke a response and the media and authorities have really done all they can to support and enable this.
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I assume you accept that Netenyahu was unequivocally describing this as another Kristalnacht which is of course utterly ridiculous.
The depravity and double standards are clear and obvious.
The links between Zionism and political and media influence are open for all to see from Starmer the 'Zionist without qualification' who refuses to define his own personal definition genocide, despite being a human rights lawyer and one who accepts donations from Israeli lobbying groups, to Tommy Robinson and many, many more.
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I suppose you are aware of MBS's comment recently regarding the situation in Gaza:
“The Kingdom reiterates its condemnation and absolute refusal of the collective genocide committed by Israel against the brotherly Palestinian people.”
This is the guy who is an important player in the Abraham accords and who has demanded Palestinian statehood as a requirement of the agreement:
"Last year the kingdom was in the process of negotiating a historic normalization agreement with Israel but recently said that was “off the table” without Palestinian statehood, a demand rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/middleeast/saudi-mbs-accuses-israel-genocide-gaza-intl/index.html
We also have the Israeli government announcing its plans for officially annexing the West Bank. Continuing the clear plan that has always been so, despite the obfuscation and political gerrymandering and gaslighting.
I would expect any rebuttal of this evidence and any attempt to defend these policies and actions to be extraordinary given how obvious the genocide is.
For reference, here is the genocide convention: