Israel are going to start WWIII

Anti-Semtism has been on the up for years

hatred of isreal has been on the up for the last 13 months

anyone any idea why ?

anyway, hopefully they are left into no more European competitions, in anything.

That's terrible. If only they could have come up with some reasonable civilised chants about Israeli kids that were killed instead.

Or am I getting confused here. Can you give us some guidelines as to which kids it's ok to gloat over being killed? Is it something like it being only ok to gloat once there is a threshold of 10k reached? It's difficult to keep up with what is ok and what isn't. It's almost as if it changes constantly to suit your own "team".

What are you on about? Honestly!

If the claim is that racism was on display in Amsterdam last night, then who is to say that the Maccabi supporters weren't also being racist towards Muslims? It takes two to tango.

Palestine "issues"? You mean mass expulsion, murder and theft of land?

Israel commits these crimes and then wonders why there is an ever increasing amount of anger.

As you are deliberately being obtuse, I will explain it to you. Hooligan's running amok in the Netherlands got a few slaps for being obnoxious pricks.

But in relation to your attempted strawman, can you tell us again what specific times collective punishment will be acceptable, and what times it won be acceptable, over the next few weeks? Do you have a schedule, or do you just flip flip depending on the victims?

As I said, I would condemn those chants.

But equally one should condemn the targeted assaults against Israelis and Jews.

Just because you act the magot, does not give carte blanche to the locals to targetting everyone of the same race and religion.

It should not be that hard

I don't condone violence.

I do, however, have a question.

If Israeli fans were asked where they were from, rather than if they were Jewish, is that still defined as antisemitism?

A quick search reveals there is a community of 15,000 Jews in Amsterdam.

These jews were not attacked, apparently. So, how does attacking only the Isrealis constitute antisemitism?

As I said, I don't condone violence. Nor do I condone mass punishment, where that is in Amsterdam, or in Gaza....

On the other hand, if some of the Israeli fans were being thugs, and THOSE fans ended up getting a few slaps, then I have absolutely no sympathy for them whatsoever.

It is ironic you call me obtuse when you are in denial of reality, and even when I share links with you about what the Dutch authorities say about the matter you want to create your own little reality as the actual facts don't conform to your worldview.

It's like reality offends you and you want to create your own make-believe world.

Here is the Amsterdam Mayor describing the events.
Reality eh?

Israeli football fans go on the rampage targeting Palestinians / people who support Palestinians in Amsterdam and get a response and cry is antisemitism…..

It should never have even come to that as Israeli football teams should have been banned from football competitions ages ago.

Again…

The Dutch Authorities agree with that cry of anti-semitism.

There seems to be a cohort of people who are in denial of reality here. I guess the Nazis weren't Anti-Semitic either..

This is why I would be very reluctant to class this as a "racist" incident. There have been innumerable violent clashes between football supporters from different countries for many decades, sometimes even resulting in fatalities. It's not helpful at all to describe this latest one as "racism" or a "pogrom".

Maccabi fans were attacked after the game for their actions before and during the game

I doubt every single Maccabi fans are Jewish or maybe they are

Lesson to be learned don't go to another city causing trouble and not expect a response from the locals

I’d say a few pants were filled when the israelis realised that the Dutch could hit back.

Political correctness gone mad. Any clubs involved in a war should be banned, simple as that. But no, due to political correctness everyone else is forced to deal with the fallout (in a sporting sense).