Why Troubling News:

This article about the violence in Amsterdam is once again portraying the Israeli soccer fans as innocent victims, completely stripping the event off context in order to push the false idea that this was "an anti-Semitic rampage" purely a result of anti-Semitism. In fact, it directly disputes evidence of the misconduct and escalation that the Israelis committed while in the Dutch city, while accusing authorities of doing nothing to protect them. The full picture of this event must include the facts of how the Israelis conducted themselves in Amsterdam, including physical attacks on Pro-Palestinian and Dutch-Arab citizens, tearing down Palestinian flags from private homes, vandalizing taxis, chanting slogans that cheered on death in Gaza, and more, while police did nothing to intervene. By the actual facts on the ground, it was the Israelis that incited this. It is complete misinformation to characterize what happened as a one-sided assault on Israeli fans, when those fans have been assaulting locals for days before. Also important, the vast majority of arrests were locals. Not the visitors that caused so much disorder. This article gives a heavily pro-Israeli biased account of what happened, denying the widespread misconduct and violence inflicted and started by the Israelis, which ended up leading to this clash as a response.