It should surprise none of us. Why would anyone of sound mind who is paying attention expect the political and media classes who’ve spent three years knowingly deceiving us on the war in Ukraine, and thirteen months lending material and moral aid to a genocide, to suddenly grow a conscience over events in Amsterdam on Thursday night/early Friday, when racist thugs – many of them IDF conscripts – who support Maccabi Tel Aviv followed a five nil drubbing at the hands of home team Ajax with a racist, hate-drenched and terrifying rampage?
Why would we expect them to condemn human rubbish filmed while slithering up the walls of private dwellings to rip down Palestinian flags, or trashing a taxi whose driver looked Arabic? Why would we think a supine media would call for a newfound appetite for criminalising “hate” to be used against a mob – an Israeli mob – promising to kill Arabs, rape women and hang all communists while chanting an anthem with the chorus line, “why no schools in Gaza? Because there are no children any more!”
A mob which, earlier in the Ajax stadium, had jeered, whistled and set off flares during a minute of silence for the Valencia dead …
… seemingly because Spain has been slightly less reticent about calling a genocide a genocide, and along with Ireland and Norway has formally recognised a Palestinian state.
And yet …
When students of tomorrow study the most egregious single-event lies by media unable, for reasons given here and here and here, to speak truth to power on matters of core concern to said power – such as a racist, genocidal and slyly expansionist state whose goals align with those of Western elites – they will be spoilt for choice, of course. The BBC’s inversion of its own footage at the Battle of Orgreave, to convince millions that police violence was in response to stone throwing miners when precisely the opposite was true, will feature.
But Goebbelsian Gold will surely go to the standing on its head of the truth – as captured on a thousand citizen phonecams – of what happened in Amsterdam last week. As Western leaders from Biden and Netanyahu to Starmer and Von der Leyen – and from the Mayor of Amsterdam and King of Netherlands to its openly Islamophobic prime minister – condemned “antisemitic attacks” in the city of Anne Frank where Arab cabbies led an impromptu resistance, the media went into overdrive.
It was simply a matter of time, hours not days, before this idiotic meme did the rounds on social media:
True, I did cover these things in my previous post, and Owen Jones’s forensic takedown is a hard act to follow. At his best the lad’s uncommon good at combining barely suppressed rage and contempt with icy command of the salient facts – and this was indeed Owen at his best.
That said, and though the tone is more dialled down, this analysis from Double Down News adds more than enough additional detail to make it a highly recommended view. Over to you, Peter Jukes:
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