Hamas/Israel conflict: news and discussion

[ID47]

Maybe they wouldn’t have got their asses kicked if the hadn’t been singing Hebrew anti Arab songs.
Humility is a good thing to practice at sporting events if you are coming from a country engaging in genocide.
Or do you not think football hooligans are scum if they are Israeli?

There's far worse them them. The filth of the Earth:

 

[cloudyday]

Athens earlier this year

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240308-israeli-football-fans-assault-man-with-palestinian-flag-in-athens/amp/

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

How many other countries fly rendition flights for hooligans? With the foreign minister saying they were frightened by terrorist (Palestinian flags) propaganda.

Jeez, I even posted the lame watered down sky news link rather than the Al Jazeera link where I read it originally, so you wouldn’t get triggered so early in the morning.

Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam

Details of incidents unclear, but Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters damaged Palestinian flags in city before match.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[HeAthen]

Athens earlier this year

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240308-israeli-football-fans-assault-man-with-palestinian-flag-in-athens/amp/

What a delightful bunch

 

[mojo pixy]

newly returned 'anti-semite witchfinder general'

Newly returned? I take regular breaks and always have, I never actually leave.

As I've acknowledged before, I'm in a minority of one on this and that's fine. Someone has to.

Football hooligans are indeed scum. Anyone cunting off the Dutch antisemites? Nah didn't think so.

 

[agricola]

Newly returned? I take regular breaks and always have, I never actually leave.

As I've acknowledged before, I'm in a minority of one on this and that's fine. Someone has to.

Football hooligans are indeed scum. Anyone cunting off the Dutch antisemites? Nah didn't think so.

It’s fairly common and long established that there are fights between opposing fans, especially when the away fans trash the place they are visiting or otherwise disrespect it.

Labeling them (the Dutch hooligans) as antisemites can do nothing else but strip all of the context out of why what happened last night happened. It’s saying they are attacked because they were Jews, not because of the behaviour of the Maccabi fans the day before, during the day of the match or at the ground. I think the latter provided much more of an influence here than the former.

 

[Rob Ray]

As I've acknowledged before, I'm in a minority of one on this and that's fine. Someone has to.

Whether or not you're always right, I think you often have a valuable role in reminding people not to extend their rightful anger with racist/murderous Israeli State decisions (and that section of the Israeli public making those decisions possible) into dodgy territory. I also think the defensive hostility frequently makes your own case better than it makes theirs. My tuppence anyway.

 

[The39thStep]

It’s fairly common and long established that there are fights between opposing fans, especially when the away fans trash the place they are visiting or otherwise disrespect it.

Labeling them (the Dutch hooligans) as antisemites can do nothing else but strip all of the context out of why what happened last night happened. It’s saying they are attacked because they were Jews, not because of the behaviour of the Maccabi fans the day before, during the day of the match or at the ground. I think the latter provided much more of an influence here than the former.

Some more context

 

[tony.c]

How many other countries fly rendition flights for hooligans? With the foreign minister saying they were frightened by terrorist (Palestinian flags) propaganda.

The Maccabi supporters will be serving or reservist IDF soldiers so used to flying on Israeli airforce planes.