Rough justice
How the Israeli soccer team and their belligerent supporters met their match in Amsterdam this week
It was widely reported on social media in recent days, but in case you missed it: another pogrom just took place against Jewish people in Amsterdam. Seriously! At least, that’s if you believe the bellicose leader of the Zionist garrison-state: Netanyahu decries Amsterdam pogrom ahead of the 86th Kristallnacht anniversary. Various other of our feckless leaders piped up decrying this purported outburst of violent antisemitism directed against a group of friendly, peace-loving Israeli soccer fans who had come to Amsterdam to attend a match against the local team, Ajax. Netanyahu later announced that two military planes had been dispatched to “rescue” the beleaguered football fans, but this subsequently proved to be fake news. Even our hereditary monarch, Willem-Alexander, who is not all that bright, felt obliged to speak up: “We must not turn blind eye to antisemitism, says Dutch king after attacks on Israeli football fans”
As has now been exhaustively documented on social media, what actually happened was that on Wednesday evening, the day before the game, two hundred or so supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv went on something of a rampage in the city center, chanting racist slogans (“death to Arabs”), tearing down Palestinian flags hanging from houses, and roughing up a taxi driver. After the match, which Maccabi lost 5-0, the disgruntled fans returned to the city center to pick up where they left off the evening before. Several videos were posted by the very fine iPhone photographer Annet de Graf (love her collection of photos of Covid-era quiet Amsterdam) showing the Zionist hooligans fighting and raising Cain in front of Central Station and later gathering on Spui square. At a given moment, a number of Moroccan Amsterdammers, apparently friends and colleagues of the aforementioned cabbie, turned up to administer some “rough justice”, resulting in several of the hooligans taking unplanned swims in the canals. Although I don’t blithely condone such street violence, words and deeds do have consequences; that immortal phrase FAFO comes to mind.
These videos went viral and were cited by mainstream media in various countries as evidence of “unprovoked” antisemitic attacks on innocent Israelis. Annet called a number of them out of this, and in due time rectifications were made, but it was another one of those moments that brings to mind that old saying: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still tying its shoes”.
None of this will come as a surprise to readers here. We all know how Zionist propaganda works, how instantly, over and over again, any kind of misdeed or inconvenient fact that emanates from that depraved and deluded society is immediately obfuscated by the playing of the “antisemitism” card. When we in the West hear this particular tune on the mighty Wurlizter we react in Palovian fashion, shutting down any capacity for critical thinking. But while the Zionist hasabara system worked exceedingly well in earlier times, it’s increasingly less effect in the age of social media, where centralized, top-down control of narratives no longer works. Moreover, propaganda built on lies doesn’t endure, the truth eventually comes out. Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Assad gassing his own people. Hamas beheading babies… we now know better, right? In the past it may have taken weeks or months, even years, for the truth to be known, today can be a matter of hours, as we saw this week with this story. The mainstream legacy media undermines and destroys its credibility with every lie it gives credence to; they are digging their own graves, as are the politicians who dumbly, uncritically follow what they are led to believe is the party line.
If you’d like to read more about the affair, here are various other commentaries on Substack which I can recommend:
Thanks, Colin, I was hoping you'd weigh in. The Israeli football hooligans are a contemptible lot. Their media shills are just as bad.
They were not FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS, I bet you they were Mossad and IDF.
Now remember they were playing AJAX ... coincidence ?.....
"History. In 1955, football enthusiast Daryl Cohen proposed the formation of a new club composed of Jewish people. After several months of discussions, the Associated Judaean Athletic Clubs (AJAX) was formally established in January 1957 and admitted into the VAFA the same year."
The only thing I can get to at the moment, is that the globalist parasitical scum want serious social disorder ... and then their plan of "out of chaos comes order" is implemented.
Just my view.