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Unrest broke out before and after the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match in Amsterdam on November 7. In the following days, international media coverage of the riots was criticised. Many outlets focused on anti-Semitic attacks, while overlooking anti-Arab or anti-Muslim behaviour by Maccabi supporters. Part of this was because a video filmed by Dutch photographer Annet de Graaf was widely circulated and often misrepresented. Our guest in this edition of Scoop is professor and disinformation expert Marc Owen Jones.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Astounding. A basic fact check of the colors the hooligans wore wearing was enough.

But it was very deliberate. All the big newspapers left the fake headlines up for multiple days despite people even contacting them to correct it.

News outlets Sky News initially aired correct articles as they got their information straight from Annet. But then they changed their story to remove accusations against Israel.

Israel has in effect proven they own all the western newspapers.

[โ€“] Mihies 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not surprised by this behavior, but still, wtf, media? Actually, wtf entire west, when did we become Israelis enablers and lackeys? Are we the baddies?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Always have been

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Many outlets focused on anti-Semitic attacks, while overlooking anti-Arab or anti-Muslim behaviour by Maccabi supporters.

The term semitic people includes arab people. It's not a synonym for jewish people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Be that as it may, antisemitism is the word for hatred against Jews. Any discussion about this is irrelevant.