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The Israeli military said on Friday it was preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of the Dutch government.

“The mission will be deployed using cargo aircraft and include medical and rescue teams,” the military said.

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s all over Instagram; Israeli fans disrupted remembrance, shouted shit about Gazans and when they lost the football match - they started to riot.

  1. Israeli fans shouting Racist things (Instagram)
  2. Israeli fans causing chaos in Amsterdam (Instagram)
  3. Israeli fans chaotic chaos 2 (Instagram)
  4. More evidence of Israeli behavior
[–] solo@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 week ago

Ban Apartheid Israel from Sports

Palestinian players and athletes are routinely attacked, imprisoned and killed. Athletes are denied freedom of movement to attend their own matches, competitions and trainings. Palestinian stadiums and sports infrastructures have been bombed and destroyed. Israel even prevents sports equipment from being imported and sports facilities from being developed.

Racism against Palestinians is institutionalized in Israeli sports – from segregated youth football leagues to anti-Palestinian hate from fan clubs that goes routinely unpunished.

In addition, Israeli football and basketball clubs based in illegal settlements are allowed to compete in official Israeli leagues, making international governing bodies FIFA and FIBA complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.

Despite all this, Western dominated sports bodies have looked the other way, refusing to take action. More than 300 Palestinian sports clubs and dozens of civil society organizations are calling to #BanIsrael from the Olympics. Join us as we seek to ban Israel from international sports forums, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA, until it ends its grave crimes against Palestinians and its attacks on Palestinian sports.

[–] MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The only stories about this I’ve seen on Lemmy take a very pro-Israel perspective. Have the Israelis started doing to Lemmy what they’ve done to Reddit?

NBC’s coverage, as an alternative, says this immediately after it’s opening statement:

Videos circulating on social media showed violence in the city’s streets, with one video geolocated by NBC News to near Amsterdam's central station appearing to show people chasing others and physically assaulting them. Separate video geolocated by NBC News showed Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. We will f*** the Arabs,” as well as tearing down a Palestinian flag.

…which clarifies that the attack was the people of Europe showing that unlike their governments, they do not tolerate genocidal apartheid supporters.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Two points

Firstly the people of Europe are not a united front in anything and there is a plurality of opinions and positions on just about everything, including the current conflict escalation between Israel and Palestine.

Second I think it's of utmost importance to differentiate between people of a nation and the government of a nation. Im this case the people of the nations were behaving like assholes, true. But Israelis as a whole are individuals with individual opinions. Like all inhabitants of all states.

People seem to forget this in times like these. I know of people that were scared they were going to be attacked (and they did get attacked sometimes) for looking Asian in the first months of corona. Now I almost never hear Russian on the streets in my city. And if I do, people are looking.

I feel bad about this development.

[–] MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your balanced and measured response. What you said is completely correct. I oversimplified quite a bit in my comment.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the people of Europe showing that unlike their governments, they do not tolerate genocidal apartheid supporters

I don't know the details for each country, but as a Western European, it seems to me that apart from Germany, European governments are generally trying to distance themselves from Israel more and more, so there's that. I can't tell what each country does in details and in facts, but it's the impression I'm getting. I know France has taken a couple punishing actions like banning them from an important military sales show and calling for a ban on weapon sales. Anyone knows if other countries have done similar things or the opposite?

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

It would be interesting to know more detail on the attacks. I've seen other sources talking about groups of Haifa fans collecting to chant about killing arabs, pulling down locals' Palestine flags and a video of them physically assaulting an Arab man outside Central Station.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

They didn't have return tickets of their own?