Amsterdam police arrest more than 60 people after attacks on Israeli football fans
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Plane carrying fans home lands in Israel as Amsterdam mayor condemns ‘hit and run’ attacks on visiting supporters

The Israeli military said on Friday it was preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of the Dutch government.

“The mission will be deployed using cargo aircraft and include medical and rescue teams,” the military said.

  • MyEdgyAltEnglish
    232·
    1 month ago

    The only stories about this I’ve seen on Lemmy take a very pro-Israel perspective. Have the Israelis started doing to Lemmy what they’ve done to Reddit?

    NBC’s coverage, as an alternative, says this immediately after it’s opening statement:

    Videos circulating on social media showed violence in the city’s streets, with one video geolocated by NBC News to near Amsterdam’s central station appearing to show people chasing others and physically assaulting them. Separate video geolocated by NBC News showed Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. We will f*** the Arabs,” as well as tearing down a Palestinian flag.

    …which clarifies that the attack was the people of Europe showing that unlike their governments, they do not tolerate genocidal apartheid supporters.

    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
      41·
      1 month ago

      Two points

      Firstly the people of Europe are not a united front in anything and there is a plurality of opinions and positions on just about everything, including the current conflict escalation between Israel and Palestine.

      Second I think it’s of utmost importance to differentiate between people of a nation and the government of a nation. Im this case the people of the nations were behaving like assholes, true. But Israelis as a whole are individuals with individual opinions. Like all inhabitants of all states.

      People seem to forget this in times like these. I know of people that were scared they were going to be attacked (and they did get attacked sometimes) for looking Asian in the first months of corona. Now I almost never hear Russian on the streets in my city. And if I do, people are looking.

      I feel bad about this development.

      • MyEdgyAltEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Thank you for your balanced and measured response. What you said is completely correct. I oversimplified quite a bit in my comment.

    • Uruanna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      the people of Europe showing that unlike their governments, they do not tolerate genocidal apartheid supporters

      I don’t know the details for each country, but as a Western European, it seems to me that apart from Germany, European governments are generally trying to distance themselves from Israel more and more, so there’s that. I can’t tell what each country does in details and in facts, but it’s the impression I’m getting. I know France has taken a couple punishing actions like banning them from an important military sales show and calling for a ban on weapon sales. Anyone knows if other countries have done similar things or the opposite?