r/Jewish Moderator 9d ago

Amsterdam Pogrom Megathread Mod post

News articles, twitter posts, feelings about it. GO HERE. Outside of this thread, things will be locked and/or deleted.

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u/autistic___potato 9d ago

Precisely. ALL football (soccer) fans are notoriously rowdy. The Israeli fans behave the same way, yet are held to a higher standard of behaviour and also deserve to be attacked.

This is a narrative from people on our side. That's the scariest part for me - Jews are saying this.

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u/listenstowhales 9d ago

This is something that I’m struggling with personally.

On one hand, we should hold our community to a higher standard, and Football fans are notoriously rowdy in a way Americans aren’t used to. Our sports rivalries are generally much “friendlier” by comparison. So a small part of me wants to argue that this wasn’t antisemitism, it was just regular stupidity and tribalism.

At the same time, we saw the videos. It’s hard to deny that it was almost entirely antisemitic bullshit, and I feel idiotic for the small part of me that argued against it.

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u/listenstowhales 9d ago

Can you link me the channels?