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The Owen Jones Podcast

Amsterdam Mayor: I Regret Claiming Pogrom And Not Denouncing Tel Aviv Thugs' Violence

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

I promise you that I wasn't going to let this go, and I'm not going to. I'm going to discuss the

0:04.3

latest developments in terms of what actually happened on the streets of Amsterdam on the 7th and 8th of November,

0:10.7

involving both Maccabee-Telavie football fans and local Dutch residents following a Europa League game

0:16.6

against Ajax. This was widely described, you will recall, as a straightforward pogrom against

0:22.6

Jewish people, an exceptionally serious accusation indeed. Now, in a series of videos, I've looked

0:28.5

at how this narrative was riddled with deceit, not least because we had the erasure of racist

0:34.9

violence by Tel Aviv-McCabee hooligans before anything else had happened,

0:38.4

including as an Israeli newspaper of all media outlets revealed, there were mobs, Tel Aviv,

0:45.2

Maccabee fans, trying to hunt down Palestinians to beat up on the streets of Amsterdam.

0:49.8

There was the targeting of cab drivers.

0:52.4

There was attacks on local residents.

0:55.8

There were tearing down of Palestinian flags from private homes and then burning them.

1:00.1

There was objects thrown at private homes.

1:03.5

There were Maccabee fans tooling up with iron bars, masking up and rampaging through the streets.

1:08.0

And of course, the chanting and singing of genocidal

1:11.2

bile in support of the extermination of Arabs and relishing the slaughter of Palestinian children.

1:17.2

Now, I interviewed a Dutch photographer who filmed Maccabee hooligans attacking Dutch residents,

1:21.6

which several Western media outlets then took that coverage and used it to claim it was

1:26.0

the other way around.

1:26.8

They presented that

1:28.1

footage, which was actually Maccabee aggression against people who were Dutch, as evidence of

1:33.9

a pogrom against Jewish people. As I also said, that's not to say, there is no evidence of

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