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How coverage of the Amsterdam soccer violence exposed the media's 'antisemitism' fiction | Mondoweiss |

The media's censorship of the facts of the Amsterdam soccer hooligan violence was more than just bad reporting. It was yet another example of the ideological fiction that Jewish actions can never be blamed for the violence they cause.

Initially, Dutch media provided detailed coverage of the events, including footage showing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans tearing down a Palestinian flag from an Amsterdam home, chanting "Let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs" and "Death to Arabs," disrupting a minute's silence for Valencia flood victims, and attacking a local taxi driver of Moroccan descent. But soon coverage by major outlets stripped these details, presenting instead a narrative focused solely on supposed antisemitic violence against Israeli fans.

The New York Times reportedly killed their own story about the incident, and revised stories by Sky News and other major outlets removed all references to the Israeli fans' provocative actions, presenting instead a simplified narrative of Israeli fans being attacked in what was characterized as purely antisemitic violence. Benjamin Netanyahu compared the anti-Israeli violence in Amsterdam to Kristallnacht, "an attack on Jews just for being Jews," and this quickly became reflected in coverage by describing the violence as a "pogrom," with references from European politicians and the worldwide media to dark events in the Jewish past, although some academics disputed this ideological framing.

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