Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv played Dutch team Ajax. Pro Palestinian orgs wanted to protest outside of the stadium but that was banned by the Amsterdam major.
A true big brain move as instead of having a single, controllable protest you now have everyone free roaming the city.
Tensions started a day before the match with Maccabi fans already in the city. Some flag burning on their side happened as well as chanting racist shit against arabs. The day of the match was pretty quiet.
After the match though shit seems to have hit the fan with multiple Maccabi fans being beaten up throughout the city by activists. Some dude was even thrown into one of the canals lmao.
Throwing colons into a canal seems a necessity