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Amsterdam Clashes: Media Ignored Israelis Chanting ‘Death to Arabs’
Zachary Foster, a historian of Palestine, joins the show to break down the last week of attacks in Amsterdam and debunk the widespread narrative in mainstream media of antisemitic "pogroms." Foster explains how the media twisted the unfolding events by omitting the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab violence and threats from Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans that instigated the clashes – provocations seen in widely-shared video online.
What the fuck happened to my birth country
Victims of Dutch police violence speak out
“I would never have imagined in my life that this would happen in the Netherlands.” Middle East Eye speaks to Janneke de Lange and Mohamed Elbastawisy, who were beaten by Dutch riot police in Amsterdam following a pro-Palestine protest on Wednesday.
I would not believe this story if it wasn't all caught on camera, unbelievable.
At least the police are investigating themselves, where have we seen that before...
https://nos.nl/artikel/2544416-politie-onderzoekt-geweld-me-na-verplaatsen-demonstranten-in-amsterdam
Francesca Albanese Calls Out David Lammy On Gaza
This is (should be) well known by now, but doesn't hurt to repeat
Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza
In the acclaimed new book _Gaza Faces History_, historian Enzo Traverso challenges Western attitudes toward Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza by reckoning with the larger historical context of the Holocaust and the Nakba.
Traverso details how memorializing the Holocaust became a sort of "civil religion" that honored human rights and the values of Western liberal democracies after the Second World War. However, in recent decades, Traverso warns, "the memory of the Holocaust experienced a paradoxical metamorphosis, and it was weaponized by Israel and by most Western powers in order to become a policy of an unconditional support of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories."
Witnessing this distortion of history, "I was shocked by the way in which many words, many concepts had been abused and misunderstood," says Traverso. "Now we are facing a paradoxical situation in which the perpetrator is Hamas and the Palestinians, and the victims are the Israelis. And this is a reversal of reality."
What stands out to me is that every video that mentions the holocaust now gets a blue banner on You Tube with a link to Wikepedia explaining the Holocaust. It's only for the Holocaust, never seen these banners for anything else. No banner nor explanation for the Nakba of course.







