Source: CounterPunch
by Michael Leonardi
“The ridiculous and twisted western government and media propaganda that is painting the zionist, ethnonationalist, racist and terroristic (many IDF soldiers and reservists and even mossad agents) Maccabi Tel Aviv football hooligans as somehow victims of antisemitic attacks is beyond the pale of hasbara manipulations of an ever increasingly ignorant and reactionary populace in both the United States and western Europe. … These so-called ‘fans’ rampaged through the streets of Amsterdam shouting and singing racist slogans and violently attacking local citizens. Eyewitness and video accounts demonstrate that they destroyed property across the historic center …. They ripped Palestinian flags from buildings and chanted and sang ‘Death to all Arabs,’ ‘Fuck Palestine,’ and ‘There are no schools in Gaza because all the kids are dead,’ as they terrorised the central canal district of this historic port city.” (11/13/24)