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Randahl Fink

My hero today is Dutch photographer Annet de Graaf, who has taken on the entire mainstream media for abusing her video footage to spread fake news about the Israeli hooligan attacks in Amsterdam.

What an amazing person!

youtu.be/ZjoQkPXA_us?si=CcrUJl

@randahl Ah, good to see Mehdi Hasan has continued on his own news channel.

@randahl As for me, I'm proud to call her a friend!

@randahl

Thanks for sharing this!

From the start I was unspeakingly amazed and angered how this was fully twisted in Dutch news and especially in right wing politics with and his poisenous rethoric being in the news. And with the displayed inability of our prime minister to react and the Israely politics capturing the moment. Shameless!

We have a problem with right wing populsime and with racism and it is not antisemitism in this case.

I haven't followed much of the media about this; my own newspaper (NRC, widely regarded as the most objective and balanced Dutch newspaper) has always reported both sides, as well as the fact that the government seemed to be ignoring one side.

The Dutch government (which is very right-wing and includes Geert Wilders' anti-islam party) immediately seemed to embrace this as an opportunity to demonize muslims and fan the flames of antisemitism, completely ignoring the fact that Maccabi fans were shouting racist slogans, attacked people, picked a fight with a Moroccan taxi driver, and even tried to force their way into the home of a random citizen with a "free Palestine" poster in their window.

The violence against them shouldn't be excused, but the violence they initiated shouldn't be either.

@randahl : a 16 year old Dutch boy, Benjamin Buit, also played a significant role by reporting how Maccabi hooligans behaved, see his video in youtube.com/watch?v=ySHIOYyJ95 (subtitles in English).

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