Just days after Israeli football hooligans’ racist romp in Amsterdam, they took part in violence in Paris too. Not to shy away from where their support lied, some of the thugs were even wearing tees with the IDF logo on them.
Israeli football hooligans rampage in France
Israel played France in a match with low attendance, partly due to some boycotts of the game relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Some brought up the word pogrom ironically, in relation to the ridiculous Western framing of the violence in Amsterdam, to refer to Israeli fans’ actions.
New pogrom just dropped https://t.co/wt2McVXHXv
— Eyup Lovely (@eyuplovely) November 14, 2024
The violence happened despite a large police mobilisation in Paris. And with one Israeli genocide apologist praising the police, officers faced accusations of actually arresting the victims of Israeli violence rather than the apparent perpetrators.
Another video where French fans explain to the police, with video for proof, that the Israel supporters started the fight and that they arrested the French victims.https://t.co/yU8TYJSi6w
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) November 15, 2024
Reportedly, French authorities banned anything Palestinian from the match. However, in a now-expected case of double standards, Israeli thugs could parade the IDF logo around without recourse:
JUST IN:
🇮🇱🇫🇷 The Mainstream media now continues once again with the victimization of the Israeli hooligans who beat a woman at the stadium in Paris
The 24-hour news channel BFMTV has just interviewed an Israeli supporter wearing a t-shirt of the ISRAELI ARMED FORCES “IDF”.… pic.twitter.com/nxv9VuAf6N
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) November 14, 2024
Amsterdam propaganda enabled this
As in Amsterdam, it looked like Israeli football hooligans had been preparing for violence before the game.
Violent far-right Zionist org Betar posts, then deletes, photos of members in Paris armed with clubs for #NationsLeague match between France and Israel. @FIFAcom‘s failure to #BanIsrael over its #GazaGenocide, apartheid regime and violent racist fans, only brings more violence. pic.twitter.com/mlXAQ1REO6
— PACBI – BDS movement (@PACBI) November 14, 2024
Entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand insisted that Israeli violence in France was an:
Absolutely perfect illustration of what we enable with the way the media and the Western political class framed what happened in Amsterdam.
Absolutely perfect illustration of what we enable with the way the media and the Western political class framed what happened in Amsterdam.
There was a football match between Israel and France yesterday and this 👇 happened at the beginning of the match: a horde of Israeli… pic.twitter.com/tFvTxNZgJj
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) November 15, 2024
A week after the events in Amsterdam, the reality of what happened is clear for most people who don’t consume establishment propaganda. Filmmaker Richard Sanders, for example, brilliantly summed up the awfulness of the Western media coverage of the violence involving Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans:
EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam @pularjs pic.twitter.com/wrXwwC6WXz
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) November 15, 2024
As the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement explained on 14 November:
Israel has killed 344 Palestinian footballers… with FIFA’s complicity
It added:
Palestinians are calling for peaceful disruption of FIFA matches until it ends complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
The right thing to do during a genocide would be for FIFA to ban the perpetrator’s teams. And we must continue to demand action until FIFA listens.
Featured image via screengrab
