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Dutch police arrested dozens of protesters who held a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration in Amsterdam on Sunday, defying a ban ordered days after clashes provoked by Israeli football fans took place in the city.

Earlier in the day, the Amsterdam District Court put in place a three-day ban on protests following unrest between Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans and Dutch youth.

On Wednesday and Thursday, travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans stirred trouble in different parts of the Dutch capital by chanting racist anti-Arab slogans ahead of their Uefa Europa League match against Amsterdam club Ajax.

Hooligans were also seen removing at least two Palestinian flags from what appeared to be residential buildings the night before the match. On match day, Israeli fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were heard shouting “Let the IDF [Israeli army] fuck the Arabs”, according to footage shared on social media. They also refused to participate in a minute of silence before kick-off for at least 200 people who died in the Valencia floods.

Amid the provocations against Arabs in the city, clashes erupted between the Israeli hooligans and a number of Dutch youths before and after the match and late into the night.

In one video posted by news site Bender, a large group of Maccabi supporters were seen arming themselves with sticks, pipes and rocks and twice clashing with opponents when they marched into the city.

Mayor Femke Halsema on Friday said the attacks were carried out by "antisemitic hit-and-run squads", a narrative widely slammed on social media, and announced a protest ban and emergency measures to stay in place until Monday morning.

On Sunday afternoon, however, hundreds of peaceful protesters gathered in Dam Square, in the city centre, amid heavy police presence.

The protesters chanted slogans and carried placards including one that read: "We can fight anti-Semitism and genocidal Zionism at the same time."

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Democracy is antisemitic

[–] StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

And how many of those Israeli bastards who instigated the violence did they arrest? Racist ass Europe.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The article mentions that Israeli fans are at fault for all of this and that the arrests happened because a court ordered ban on all protests.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Clearly, this could all have been avoided if the court had ordered a ban on Israeli hate crimes. It's shameful that they haven't!

Is this sarcasm? I honestly don't know myself any more.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Bruh what. Are you american or why do you don't understand how laws work?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 2 weeks ago

They should've arrested all of them and held them until they could work out which ones are war criminals that can be referred to the Hague.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Maccabi Tel Aviv shouldn’t be in UEFA. Getting the boot from AFC might not have been fair in the 70’s but if your fans can’t travel to fucking Ajax, just don’t play international football.

[–] evilkevin22@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to give some context here.

Due to due hightend situation and the risk of further violence, the mayor of Amsterdam forbid all protests until Thursday.

The protest right in the Netherlands can be revoked temporarily (like a couple of days most) in very specific circumstances. It’s also only applicable to that city.

Believe me when i say, people protest their ass of here. Unions, farmers, climate activists and for stuff like the housing crisis for example.

And yeah our current federal government coalition is more pro Israel but they don’t have the power to just suddenly cancel our protest rights. That is up to local politicians and mayors.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

All protests or just pro-Palestine protests? There's a huge difference between the two.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Once again proving that football fans are the lowest form of organism on this planet.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There were IDF soldiers among them, also Mossad operatives. This wasn't just football fans doing football things.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More like fans of any sport, mirite?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps it's because football is the biggest sport internationally, but football attract the worst kind of fans.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

With Israel's mask off, other nations need to start allowing these protesters so long as they don't actually turn violent.

We don't need to pretend that Israel is the "good guys" anymore; they've straight-up told us told us that they aren't.