Why Troubling News:

This article represents the events in Amsterdam as one-sided aggression towards the Israeli soccer fans, failing to mention that those soccer fans were the group that started confrontations and creating tensions days prior, having chanted anti-Palestine slogans that bordered on genocidal rhetoric ("Why are there no schools in Gaza, because there are no kids in Gaza"), assaulted a taxi driver, and teared down Palestinian flags inside the houses of locals. Given these provocations from visitors, it's no surprise that there was a response from locals, including pro-Palestine ones. The characterization of this clash as a "pogrom" or "purely anti-Semitic" ignores the existing situation on the ground, and how the Israeli soccer fans' actions and misconduct while abroad produced such a response. Simply put, it is misinformation to characterize this fight as a result of anti-Semitism, when the disruptive and at time violent behavior of the Maccabi fans were what started the situation. The violence is correctly condemned, but pretending that the Maccabi fans did not provoke anyone is simply false.