Israeli citizens told to avoid visits abroad after Amsterdam violence
Israel told its citizens to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving Israel in the coming week in the wake of clashes between Israeli football fans and people in the Netherlands.
A statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel allegedly had intelligence that pro-Palestinian groups abroad intended to harm Israelis in cities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and others.
Authorities in Amsterdam imposed a three-day ban on protests on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting team Maccabi Tel Aviv and host team Ajax Amsterdam.
Good, stay the fuck away. Don't want your racist crap in my birthplace nor anywhere else.
Amsterdam violence: ‘A very typical mainstream Israeli reaction’
An Israeli academic says that the Israeli football fans who became embroiled in street brawls in Amsterdam were most likely ignorant about how their country is viewed in the world over the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
“They think what they watch on TV is the same reality globally,” said Menachem Klein, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University. “Others, perhaps, want to teach, as they call it, the ‘anti-Semite Europeans’ a lesson, to show them who is the boss in their own home.”
He called the behaviour of the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans “self-centric” and reflective of “victimhood”.
“It’s a very typical mainstream Israeli reaction, what happened in Amsterdam, to world concerns about what’s happening in Gaza,” Klein told Al Jazeera.
Racist slurs are never OK. Victims don't go around vandalizing homes, attacking people and taxis. I guess this Israeli academic proves his own point, ignorant about what actually happened in Amsterdam.
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