Police have detained dozens of people for taking part in a demonstration in central Amsterdam that had been outlawed following violent clashes targeting fans of an Israeli soccer club.
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    516·
    13 days ago

    Before the match against Ajax, Maccabi fans also tore a Palestinian flag off a building in Amsterdam and chanted anti-Arab slogans on their way to the stadium. There were also reports of Maccabi fans starting fights.

    No mention of those instigators being arrested.

  • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
    424·
    13 days ago

    you guys invent a new word for “anti-genocide protester” every time you have to talk about somebody who signs your paycheck.

    • JokerOPEnglish
      154·
      13 days ago

      You suffer from “headline please make me angry” syndrome.

      Solution: seek least biased news sources to get better or seek radically biased news sources to get worse.

      • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
        518·
        13 days ago

        I was talking about what they’re calling me, dipshit. and if you’re not an anti-genocide protester, then thanks for waving your red flag this early in the conversation

          • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
            118·
            13 days ago

            every single time they talk about anti-genocide protesters, at the moment, they’re calling all of us “pro Palestinian”. just like how the Nazis called anybody who defended non-Aryans “jew lovers”, the same reason that slavers called abolitionists “n*gger lovers”. as if the only reason you could possibly feel empathy for that particular group of people is because… well I’m not sure exactly what they’re implying.

            we are not “pro palestinian”. if the Palestinians were committing a similar genocide against Jewish folk, we would be just as upset in the other direction.

            • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
              99·
              13 days ago

              Did you read the article?

              The protesters yelled slogans including “Free, free Palestine.”

              If they had been chanting ‘Stop the Genocide!’, then I’d agree with you - it would have been an anti-genocide protest. But they weren’t; they were chanting pro-palestinian slogans, so calling it anything other than a ‘Pro Palestine’ demonstration would have been misrepresenting the situation.

              I don’t know where you get the takeaway that they’re talking about you, or that you are in any way involved in what happened here, unless you were specifically there. This isn’t about you, or any other anti-genocide protest; this is about a very specific, pro-Palestine protest.