#Israel / Coverage of 'Amsterdam Pogrom' Was a Farce Reflecting Hysteria and Narrative Manipulation"

[...] News channels ignored footage of Maccabi fans aggressively shouting "We'll [f***] the Arabs!" and tearing down Palestinian flags before being violently attacked in #Amsterdam. They chose to cover the event with nationalistic victimhood while trivializing the #Holocaust.

[...] From yesterday morning through the evening broadcasts, the studios aired a festival of victimhood about worldwide hatred of Israelis - with the chosen people transformed into the persecuted, forced to hide in hotels, seasoned with references to Anne Frank's hiding place. The main losers were Amalia Duek and Ofer Hadad who had circled like eagles over antisemitism abroad all year, yet were absent when this mini-drama erupted in Europe.

[...] The gap between coverage on social media versus news channels reminded us that it's not only Netanyahu's office busy trying to deliberately establish a self-serving narrative. The studios also downplayed what "didn't look good for them" and ignored videos showing a herd of fans who felt like lords of the continent screaming "We'll [f***] the Arabs!" alongside "Let the IDF win" as if they were in Huwara and not a European capital. When Haim Etgar and Maayan Adam on Channel 12 finally showed images from the video where fans were singing - they muted the sound. They let panelists Noam Adri and Naama Sikuler ramble instead. The coverage was a display of complete and deliberate consciousness engineering.

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/television/tv-review/2024-11-09/ty-article/.highlight/00000193-0fd2-d3a2-a3d7-4fd3f06e0000 or https://archive.ph/wm9L7

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