so the violence around the makab Tel Aviv ax Amsterdam game has been sort of universally portrayed around the world as being a anti-semitic program in fact what it is is an absolutely case study a text study in disinformation now let's make our Focus here a very specific bit of footage if you watch certainly the initial reports from the BBC the Guardians CNN and other outlets they all rely very heavily on a specific a bit of footage of individuals in the street being attacked by a mob of hooded men crowds of people assaulted Israeli fans after
Thursday night's match Israel said that Israeli supporters were attacked in a very violent incident as they left the ground vicious attacks upon people purely because they're Israelis and Jews this was continuously used to illustrate the violence that makabe Tel Aviv supporters had suffered the times of India used anet's footage and even went so far as to refer to it as is Israeli Nationals abducted in Hamas style attack now that footage was shot by a local citizen journalist called Anette deph who I've spoken to quite a bit over the last few days her footage does not
show Israeli fans being attacked at all in fact it shows the precise opposite the mobs of hooded figures we see in that footage are makabe Tel Aviv fans if you look very carefully at anette's footage you can see that a number of individuals are wearing blue and yellow which are the macabe colors the people they are attacking are individual Dutch citizens and that goes online actually says no hang on hang on the footage doesn't show that it shows the exact opposite she is ignored she starts having to interact with various news agencies pleading with them
to change the way they are using her own footage firstly Reuters terribly important because Reuters provides footage to other news organizations around the world with the footage what Ro distributes as a thing called a dope sheet this is a basic explanation to their clients of what they're looking at what this footage is now Annette spoke to Reuters at enormous length very early in the morning on the Friday the day after the violence and explained to them gave them chapter and verse told them exactly what this was the following evening they rang rang back they clearly
went terribly satisfied with this and and quizzed her again and she was absolutely emphatic the people committing the violence here are makabe Tel Aviv fans now I've obtained a copy of the reuter's dope sheet for this one it begins clashes broke out outside Amsterdam Central Station in the early hours of Friday November the 8th in what Israeli authorities said was an attack targeting Israeli citizens their opening line despite what Anna has told them continues to frame it with the makabe fans as being the victims here it then does address what Anette had told them an
eyewitness at the scene claims these people are fans of makabe Tel Aviv however writter cannot independently verify this claim now that is quite extraordinary she's not an eyewitness at the scene she is the originator of the material and she's not guessing she had been following this this mob of hooligans for quarter of an hour she knows damn well who they are so what they've done here is an absolute classic bit of obfuscation they've got a bit of footage that they're Distributing to the world's media which shows Israeli football holigans attacking Dutch citizens and they are
presenting it to the world's media as hey who knows it could be this it could be that even more astonishing example of this totally dishonest obfuscation is Sky News Anette does a live interview on Sky News on the Friday evening she tells me she was absolutely crystal clear about it she made it very clear to them what they were looking at was hooliganism by Israeli football fans the next morning something very interesting happens a woman called Alice Porter a reporter for Sky News produces a very unusual report it absolutely stands out from all the other
reporting not because it's an exceptional bit of Journalism it's a bog standard bit of Journalism it's an accurate description of what had happened in Amsterdam and within hours it was taken down and Sky re-edited it and put it up again with a note saying the previous version did not meet their standards for balance and impartiality and the most striking bit is they continue to use anet's footage in her original piece Alice Porter had said MC fans were seen attacking local pools as a police car can be seen driving by by the time you get to
the re-edited version that script line has become a video posted on social media shows a large group of hooded men dressed in black running down the street and striking people at random what has happened there Sky News who know perfectly well what this footage shows and had originally accurately reported it is now pretending that it doesn't know basically to lie to their viewers and it's rather sad actually to see that Alice Porter was prepared to revoice this you know here you have the one journalist who'd done a bit of honest competent professional journalism on the
Saturday morning and by the Sunday she's clearly been bullied into revoicing it important context here of course is that the Sky News presenter Bella Donati rather aggressively interviewed an Israeli representative quite early in the war in Gaza and immediately disappeared from Sky News screens so that will be something that would have been hanging over Alice Porter's head no doubt but it's rather sad that she did feel prepared to read that new script line Anette wrote to Reuters but they declined to change the wording on the dope sheet Anette wrote to Sky including an email to
the reporter Alice Porter and they didn't even respond to her this misrepresentation of anette's footage is all the more startling because there was a second journalist in the same place at the same time who puts the main news organ izations to shame it's a young Dutch boy he has even more extensive footage than Anette you can quite clearly see in his footage that these are makabe supporters they have the colors on you see them arming themselves you see them rampaging through the streets and then you actually see them threatening him and telling him to stop
[Music] filming you're media for you for your this footage was widely available it was widely viewed Reuters will have been aware of this Sky News will have been aware of this which makes it all the more disgraceful the fact that they obfuscated what anette's footage actually showed it's striking that the only two people who actually did their job were anet legra a citizen journalist and a teenage Dutch boy and then of course poor Alice Porter for Sky who immediately paid a price for her honestly makab Tel aviv's supporters have a reputation for racism and political
violence in the past meab T Aviv fans have attacked anti- Netanyahu protesters with battens and broken bottles in March this year they were filmed beating an Arab man unconscious on the streets of Athens and on the rare occasions in the past where makab Tel Aviv has signed Arab players their supporters have actually booed their own players the last time makab Tel Aviv fans were in Amsterdam they sang A notorious song about their Rivals which actually refers to raping people [Applause] [Music] what happens in amsterd Dam his large numbers of them turn up attack locals they
threw beer at me and they uh spit it at me in the dump strats but it was like a very aggressive T over here like there was someone uh who was pulled off the bike and we walked to there to just see what happened and at that point a glass bottle was thrown at us from the the crowd of macabi supporters not only attacking people from Amsterdam but even throwing metal pipes at the police the Dutch police say they were tearing down Palestinian Flags burning pal Flags they also attacked and destroyed a taxi large numbers
of them were filmed singing Let the IDF win and the Arabs this is a song which ends with the line why is there no school in Gaza because there are no children when they arrived back in Israel the victims of this supposed pogram were filmed once again singing [Applause] this is at the end of a year when upwards of 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed by the Israeli Army in Gaza during the game there is a minute silence for the victims of the flooding in Spain Spain is unpopular in Israel because it's perceived as being
sympathetic to the Palestinians and so they sort of Boo and whistle and Jer through the minutes silence then after the game there are clashes between makab Tel Aviv supporters and local Dutch people in the streets of Amsterdam if you actually look at it carefully and look at the footage and read the reports carefully I have to say as someone who attended English football matches throughout the the 1980s if this was Spurs Arsenal in 1985 this would have been about two column inches on the inside pages of the evening standard I mean this really wasn't extensive
violence but yet immediately this is headline news around the world the guardian the BBC and others actually start a live news feed about it in the early reporting certainly no context is provided at all it's simply presented as mobs of anti-sites attacking Israeli football fans this is a disturbing story Charlie Israel condemning what is being described as a Jew hunt a horror story out of the Netherlands avoid movements in the street and lock yourself in your hotel hotel rooms the Israeli military says it's preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission to the Netherlands and uh
indeed there's even another unconfirmed report that there could be a hostage situation now taking place and what is extraordinary is is virtually all of the western world's major political leaders who have remained virtually silent for a year in the face of Massacre after Massacre after Massacre of children in the Gaza Strip weigh in condemning the violence and portraying it as a pogri there are even ludicrous comparisons of it with Crystal NE those Jewish people there were remembering Crystal which was a pogram that happened before World War II where Jews were targeted of course um you
can understand how upset how angry how afraid they are that this happened in their own country in modern times I thought for the anrank trust and other Holocaust Memorial organizations to come out in defense of people who had marched through the streets of Amsterdam singing the Arabs there are no children in Gaza Etc was quite obscene the Dutch have been shamed and shocked by a Jew hunt by Muslims in the streets of Amsterdam I mean Amsterdam the city where a Jewish girl Anna Frank wrote a famous diary while the family hid from the Nazis until
they were betrayed and most of them killed I there is a case study in the misuse of the term anti anti-Semitism this must be pretty much the only example in history where gangs of racist football Hooligans have found the entirety of the western media and political establishment leaping to their defense and portraying them as victims you just have to imagine Russian supporters descending on a town perhaps full of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and marching through the streets singing the ukrainians celebr a in the slaughter of Ukrainian children and then just imagine how this story would
be being covered in Western press stories like this are profoundly discrediting the political and media class you have to be very careful the new labor government here in Britain and governments and other places are talking about cracking down on the internet and cracking down on what they call disinformation there is disinformation on the internet but you have to be very careful that what they're actually worried about is accurate information that they don't want to be out there now in the game itself makabe Tel Aviv lost five nil but the real losers here is the political
and media class of Europe and North America who appalling hypocracy and moral double standards and moral dishonesty were again exposed and really the issue we ought to be wrestling with in the wake of this is why on Earth clubs which represent a genocidal aparte country clubs whose supporters clearly see football matches as an opportunity to import the thuggery of the Israeli Army and bear in mind many of these makabe supporters would be reservists in the Israeli army they clearly see it as an opportunity to import the thuggery of the Israeli Army onto the streets of
Europe why on Earth are these clubs still welcome in FIFA and UEFA competitions bear in mind of course that the Russians have been barred from playing International football ever since they invaded Ukraine and you do find yourself asking where is the duty of care where is the sense of responsibility to their own citizens governments and City authorities are prepared to invite these gangs of racist islamophobic Hooligans onto their streets and when local people are attacked it is these foreign Hooligans who will be presented as the victims where is the sense of responsibility the duty of
care to their own citizens and particularly their own Muslim citizens and it does rather raise the question of whether they they don't actually really regard them as Citizens there has never been an example of disinformation quite as crude and as see-through as this one and once again it shows more than ever the need for Independent Media the need for Outlets like Double Down News and I would urge you to support Double Down News through Patron
