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@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Since Maccabi Tel Aviv is trending, come and get to know its soccer/football fans who ignited anti-Arab hate and violence in Amsterdam, leading to reprisals from Arabs who were attacked (and who are universally being smeared as antisemites engaging in pogroms). 🧵

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Here is a report from an Israeli agency, who sent observers to every match to find 190 incidents of racist chants, calling 2022-2023 "the most racist and violent" soccer season in Israel's history. Including routinely chanting "monkey" at Black players. 2 https://www.nif.org/stories/shared-society-combating-racism/reporting-on-racism-in-soccer/

Reporting on Racism in Soccer | New Israel Fund (NIF) NIF’s Kick it Out published a report documenting the most racist and violent soccer season in Israel’s recorded history. nif.org

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

This predominant fan culture in Israeli soccer isn't only home calling foreign team bigoted things, but also veers into going after each other. The study found 20 matches where fans would call for "Shoah" of the opposing Israeli team. 3

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Soccer fans violence isn't new, but it's exploding according to the Israeli report, which calls the fans a "mirror" of Israel's society. In 2012, 300 Beitar Jerusalem fans stormed a mall to attack Palestinian and other Arab workers. @Mondoweiss 4 https://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/hundreds-of-soccer-fans-crowd-jerusalem-mall-death-to-arabs/

Hundreds of soccer fans crowd Jerusalem mall: ‘Death to Arabs!’ Sports explosion: a massive anti Arab hatefest that took place in Israel last week. mondoweiss.net

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

And as far back as 2003, an Israeli report found that Maccabi Tel Aviv, with Beitar Jerusalem, were composed of the two most racist fanbases. 5 https://www.haaretz.com/2003-06-11/ty-article/betar-maccabi-ta-and-haifa-fans-are-most-racist/0000017f-f3f5-d497-a1ff-f3f5ae2a0000

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans hold second place only because Beitar Jerusalem fans take it to another stratosphere. For example, openly celebrating being the only club that has never had an Arab player. One player, an African who came from Maccabis, returned to them after being violently mobbed by Beitar. Then, fled Maccabis to return to Nigeria. 6 https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/6/55/63433/Sports/World/Israeli-soccer-clubs-fans-object-to-adding-Muslim-.aspx

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

In 2018, David Zirin (@EdgeofSports) wrote in @thenation about how Beitar Jerusalem renamed themselves to... Donald Trump. 7 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/israels-most-racist-soccer-club-renames-itself-after-donald-trump/

Israel’s Most Racist Soccer Club Renames Itself After Donald Trump The Nation Magazine thenation.com

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Back to today, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and The Netherlands "pogroms". The news and politicians being paid by AIPAC, and backed by the hate group, ADL and @JGreenblattADL are simply lying to you. By erasing these fans' role in manufacturing antisemitism. 8 https://t.co/4ocmek0YMW

@ASE - AHMED | أحمد

The reason the media is deliberately not reporting the fact that Israeli ⚽️ hooligans marched thru Amsterdam, provoking & beating passers, chanting death to Arabs and other genocidal slurs, vandalizing peoples homes & removing Palestinian flags is precisely so that pundits & politicians can frame Israel as a victim in need of defense 🤦🏽‍♂️

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The situation with Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam escalated due to their violent behavior. Instead of addressing the context of their actions, some are drawing inappropriate parallels to historical atrocities against Jews. The fans engaged in aggressive acts, including attacking people and making offensive chants related to the conflict in Gaza. This behavior reflects the racism present in Israeli society and has been previously documented, such as an incident in Athens where they assaulted a Palestinian man. UEFA bears responsibility for allowing such groups to participate in international football despite their history of violence and racism. The framing of this incident is troubling and diminishes the significance of historical suffering.

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Speaker 0: The incident with the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam is only getting more insane because last night, they were targeted after their horrendous behavior. And instead of maybe considering why UEFA let a country which is currently committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians and whose football league is filled with racist teams who pride themselves on not employing Arabs. Well, instead of dealing with that, of course, Zionists and Western media are pretending that this is somehow similar to the extermination of Jewish people in Europe in the 19 thirties forties. And I am sorry. This is ridiculous. And it diminishes the legacy of these horrors because these people were not targeted on the basis of their Jewishness. They were targeted because Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are violent hooligans who were rampaging through the streets of Amsterdam, attacking people, tearing down flags, chanting about there being no children and schools left in Gaza, saying let the IOF win so they can fuck the Arabs and other just horrors. These people need to be banned from international football. The blame is squarely with UEFA. This isn't some anti Semitic outburst against Jewish people that came from nowhere. This comes from the racism which permeates Israeli society and the way in which this spills over whenever Israelis travel to other countries. And as I say, UEFA is to blame because this isn't even the first incident with Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. In March this year, they beat a Palestinian man unconscious in Athens before their game with Olympiacos. And yet instead of dealing with them, UEFA lets this group of people who celebrate genocide and violently attack those who oppose it, Continue going around Europe to do more celebration and then expect people not to react. This is farcical and ridiculous. And the way in which it is being framed, as I say, is just disgusting.

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

They're engaging in theater of "victimhood", supporting a historically violent, racist fanbase who came to Netherlands to assault and incite violence against Arabs, then flipping it to claim the reprisals and anger in return are simply targeting Jews. 9 https://t.co/VHwPWy5Trn

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

It didn't even start in the Netherlands, it also occurred this Spring in Athens, Greece, where Maccabi Tel Aviv FC beat an Arab. 10 https://t.co/2RRmOd6HtI

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

And tonight, as the fans return to Israel, having sparked a manufactured story of antisemitism and pogroms in Netherlands, have reset their sights on Palestinians, barely getting off the plane to chant about bombing Palestinian school children. 11/11 https://t.co/1m48ArebfZ

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

Finally, in order to truly understand the energy of Israeli soccer clubs like Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem, you have to witness them with your own eyes and ears. Then tell me who, who from history they remind you of? https://t.co/NSTMDzVi8e

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

This is Rasha. A Palestinian citizen of Israel. She’s a beauty shop owner in very north of Israel who couldn’t be further from Gaza in Majd al-Krum. Her crime? A social media post expressing sadness and solidarity with Palestinians in Rafah after the tent massacre. Via @ShusterNoam + hrebat IG

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

While many of us support any/all actions that save lives, this so called ceasefire statement is mired in politician weasel words, racism so casual that they don't even notice it & utter inhumanity that history will not be kind to. And it needs an entire thread to break down 🧵

@bradhoylman - Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal

NEW: Our joint statement from progressive New York Jewish elected officials on Israel/Gaza and the hostage release/ceasefire deal https://t.co/zHGSfMO1tW

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

The statement begins w "we care deeply about Israel, and are strongly committed to its Jewish and democratic future". A gift to ethnonationalists who don't believe in a multifaith, multiracial democracy, borrowing very much from Israel's new, racist Nation State law. 2/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Imagine, for one second, saying you support a United States "Christian and democratic future". We don't, because it's racist. And if it's racist here, it's racist anywhere. 3/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Just when u need to step away from making this conflict a holy war (it's about real estate), it cites "prophets of Israel" from Israel's declaration of independence. Imagine for one second, saying "manifest destiny" in the US. Progressives don't, because it's racist. 4/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Now it does some career politician weasel words. After feeding the right wingers, it throws in "complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race..." but never mentioning the Nation State law which undid that promise. 5/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Then it throws another with "establishment of an independent Palestinian state". But the question is, why are American Jews deciding something that should be decided in a democracy overseas? You claim to want equal democracy, but only after removing the majority of voters. 6/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"We continue to demand that the hostages be returned to their loved ones immediately." Nothing about Israel's prisoners, which include poets, journalists, doctors, political leaders and... children in military courts and jail. Nothing about Gaza itself being 2M+ hostages. 7/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"Hamas broke a ceasefire agreement on October 7th, we understand that it's difficult for Israelis to trust that they wouldn't do that again" Even Israeli scholars admit that Israel has routinely broken almost every so called ceasefire. Yet here we are. 8/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Further, when you view peace as peace for one side, it's not peace, it's supremacy. Israel is routinely "mowing the lawn" with bombs in Gaza, expanding settlements in West Bank, and keeping it under siege for 18 years. Ceasefire is sure doing a lot of work here. 9/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"Israel has the need and the right under international law..." This is profoundly infuriating as Israel is breaking international law every day, and has been for 75 years. 10/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"to seek to rescue the hostages" This promotes the obvious lie, a view shared by devastated families of Israeli hostages, that this was never about hostages. You don't bomb hostages you're saving. You don't gag former hostages from speaking. 11/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"eliminate Hamas' terror infrastructure" On one hand they routinely say Hamas is using civilian infrastructure, then on the other saying this civilian infrastructure must be eliminated. There is one word for this. Genocide. 12/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

They add " eliminate Hamas' terror infrastructure in order to keep its citizens safe." This has never worked. Anywhere. The only thing that works is removing injustices at the root. Hamas was created by bombs (and Israeli funding). Adding bombs creates more violence. 13/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Imagine saying, in the US, that the potential of violent riots of people terrorized daily by state violence, must be solved by adding terror through state violence instead of resolving the systemic social and economic roots of the issue. They don't, cause it's racist. 14/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"The siege, and the shutoff of food, water, electricity, and medical supplies have created a disastrous humanitarian emergency." Here they are pretending the siege began on Oct 7. The siege of Gaza is 18 years old. 15/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"We want to support the Israeli government's approach," Just a month ago, the Israeli streets were filled with millions of Israelis calling their own gov a racist, homophobic far right government. But we really WANT TO SUPPORT YOU. Disgusting. 16/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

A lot of this was ugly but this one takes a medal. "civilian protection measures to be put in place to curb unacceptable levels of civilian death and suffering" These so called progressives are ADMITTING there is an acceptable level of civilian death and suffering. Wow. 17/ https://t.co/1ix9NbU4O6

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Here they illegally join right wingers in normalizing tying humanitarian aid to Hamas aka collective punishment. A war crime. "release could change the trajectory of the conflict...toward...longer-term humanitarian assistance" 18/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, of self-determination for both peoples," Once again, separate but equal. One of the racist foundations of a stage of Jim Crow in the United States. The Americans have decided, the fate of two peoples. 19/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"Deadly settler violence and displacement is allowed to rampage in the West Bank" Nice words, yet each of these signers OPPOSED a legislation here in NY that would outlaw New York non profits directly funding that violence aka #NotOnOurDime. Some called it antisemitic. 20/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"Ultimately, there is no military solution to the conflict." They're throwing NY Times liberals a bone to quote, after advocating for tying humanitarian aid as collective punishment and accepting "acceptable" civilian mass murder. 21/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"need to be negotiation and political compromise, between Israelis and Palestinians" A compromise they're already hard at work rigging. Demanding that Israel come to table with maximalist offer, and Palestinians negotiate away most of their rights before negotiations. 22/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

"As city and state elected officials, our legislative work is not on this war. " It actually is in many ways, including defending the non profits in NY who are the primary funders of violent, ethnic cleansing in settlements. 23/

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Please give a raise to whoever wrote the ending of this horrific statement. It's the only humane, logical and non implicitly racist thing written. 24/24 #CeasefireNow https://t.co/bVTgnkWEIk

@rafaelshimunov - Rafael Shimunov

Massive crowd of Jewish New Yorkers assembling to refuse US backed Israeli attacks on Gaza. Not in our name! No #GazaGenocide