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Main points on November 9th
- Israeli forces killed at least 44 people in Gaza on Saturday, including two Palestinians sheltering in the grounds of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah and two journalists at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
- In Lebanon, the Health Ministry says a series of Israeli attacks on eastern and southern parts of the country killed at least 31 people, including six rescue workers.
- Qatar says its mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas are suspended until all parties show a “willingness and seriousness” to end the war.
- A UN-backed assessment warns that famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza amid increased hostilities and a near-halt to the entry of food aid.
- The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza sounded the alarm over the worsening humanitarian crisis at the hospital, describing the situation as “catastrophic”.
- Thousands of people rallied in cities across Israel, including Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government sign a deal to secure the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza.
UN rapporteur slams media coverage of clashes between Israeli football fans, locals in Amsterdam
UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese says selective media coverage of clashes between Israeli football fans and locals in Amsterdam reinforces the need for Western media to be “investigated for the role they are playing in obscuring Israel’s atrocities”.
“In other contexts, international tribunals have found media figures responsible for complicity, incitement, and other international crimes,” the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory said in a post on X.
Hundreds of fans of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv took to the streets before and after a Europa League football match earlier this week.
In one video, Israeli supporters were heard singing: “Let the [Israeli army] win, and f*** the Arabs!,” referring to the Israeli army’s offensive on Gaza. However, some major Western media outlets focused on attacks on Israeli fans while minimising or omitting reports on how the Israeli fans acted.
I haven't seen one Western article look at the background of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Some do put a footnote in the article like the BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgv4mdr9y8o
The attacks overnight into Friday followed some tensions between Maccabi fans and people in Amsterdam over previous days, officials said. On Wednesday Maccabi fans attacked a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag, police chief Holla said. There were further clashes in Dam Square overnight into Thursday but police were mostly able to keep the groups separate.
Some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have previously been involved in racist incidents in Israel, including cursing at the team’s Palestinian and Arab players and reportedly applying pressure on the team to oust them. Fans of the team have also previously attacked protesters demonstrating against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Asked about video footage appearing to show Maccabi fans in Amsterdam chanting offensive slogans, Mayor Halsema said: "What happened last night has nothing to do with protest. There is no excuse for what happened."
Only at the bottom of a long article about the Israeli victims, and no interviews with those who were vandalized nor any of the Palestine supporters.
But now it makes sense why taxi drivers were involved. You don't mess with Amsterdam taxi drivers, they stick up for each other. Once my boss was a bit argumentative with a taxi driver after dropping us off at the next bar. He wanted a ride further home, taxi driver wanted us all out. Within minutes backup arrived and we quickly departed into the bar. You don't mess with taxis in Amsterdam.
Any other country would have apologized for the chaos caused by their hooligan citizens. Not Netanyahu, he went so far as comparing it to Kristallnacht.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/israel-soccer-fans-attacked-amsterdam-intl-hnk/index.html
Maccabi is a known openly racist club, dunno why UEFA lets them play at all.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/no-there-were-no-antisemitic-pogroms-in-amsterdam-heres-what-really-happened/
The coverage of events in Amsterdam reveals a troubling, but transparent and tired pattern: it serves as a rhetorical tool to justify violence against Arabs and Muslims, whether in Gaza or within the streets of Europe.
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The claims and experiences of Palestinians, of Arabs and Muslims, might be tragic but we must always consider Jewish suffering and trauma first and foremost – that is what must always be protected, always at the helm of our outrage.
The coverage of the anti-racist counter-attacks in Amsterdam exemplified that: on the same day Western leaders flocked to condemn a non-existent pogrom against Jews, the UN Office on Human Rights released a report indicating that 70% of those killed in Gaza are women and children – mainly children, between the ages of 5 and 9. And the lack of condemnation, of outrage – even acknowledgement – of that from Western leaders and newsrooms, who are culpable in that 70%, is why there is condemnation of a pogrom that never happened.
That piece sums it all up with tons of links, very well sourced.
