Wave of violence targeting Israeli soccer fans followed calls to hunt them down on popular messaging apps

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPM
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    You’ve missed the thread. It’s clear now that the ones doing the violence and assaulting people were not looking for the hooligans who were being offensive. They were just looking for any Jews they could find.

    You wouldn’t defend this for any group of people other than Jews.

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      Ripping a Palestinian flag down while shouting to kill all Arabs isn’t someone “being offensive,” it’s doing violence. It’s no surprise that violence was met with more.

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        Once again, you’ve missed the thread as well. The people doing the violence were not trying to find those specific people. They were hunting any Jews they could find.

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          I have no idea what the article says, because it’s paywalled. All I can read is that someone with a group of Israeli soccer fans was attacked.

          This is not surprising, as Jewish soccer fans were chanted for the death of Arabs and violently ripped down other peoples property, which you called “being offensive.”

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          But they weren’t attacking them for their religion right? So then it’s not antisemitism? /s

          Scary to see this kind of propaganda on Lemmy extend to the real world. People hunting various Jews in the streets and those actions get a pass from users here.

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      I think that is a bit disingenuous. They apparently asked for passports to find Israelis not just any Jews. As deplorable as this still is, it’s different from “any Jews”.

      Also: If russian hools started to openly endorse the war against Ukraine in a region where a lot of Ukrainian refugees are located I would absolutely advise caution for every russian visitor in that region no matter their stance and especially if they want to express their fandom to the same football team as those hools.

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      I don’t get how it is so hard for people to admit that some number of the “Pro Palestine” people are motivated by antisemitism just the same way Hamas is. Not everyone, but some, and the rest turn a blind eye to it.