Dozens of supporters lynched, beaten to the ground, even hit by cars… After the football match on Thursday, November 7 between Israeli Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Dutch Ajax, scenes of great violence broke out in the stadiums. streets of the capital of the Netherlands. The victims? Supporters of Israeli club who, from the final whistle, were chased through the streets of Amsterdam. Police announced they had arrested 62 individuals, while Israeli and Dutch leaders expressed their fear and denounced anti-Semitic attacks. The Dutch Prime Minister, Dick Schoof, thus condemned “completely unacceptable anti-Semitic attacks against Israelis”.
In France, the Insoumis deputy — and triple S file — Raphaël Arnault also quickly spoke out about this night of violence. Visibly marked by the images of the attacks, he made a point of vigorously denouncing on X… the supporters of the Israeli club, who were, according to him, not “did not come to Amsterdam to pick daffodils” (sic).
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“When you follow football, Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters are renowned for harboring the biggest fringes of far-right, racist and violent hooligans,” thus writes the deputy from Avignon, while several dozen injured among Israeli supporters have been recorded.
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But the “anti-fascist” activist did not intend to stop there in his victimizing reversal. A few minutes later, he published a second tweet, where he explicitly accused the Israelis of being at the origin of the violence to which they were victims. “These famous “supporters” remained mobilized until late after the match to be able to fight”thus affirms the MP, who has never hidden his support for Palestine.
However, nothing seems to confirm the words of the elected Insoumis. Worse, the videos massively distributed on social networks all show the complete lynching of isolated and frightened Israeli supporters. On several of them, we can see supporters lying on the ground, unconscious, hit several times by hooded individuals. Others show a man thrown into a canal, forced to scream « free Palestine ». “It probably didn’t end well for these hooligans”Raphaël Arnault calmly blurts out about these ultra-violent scenes.
“The problematic MP Raphaël Arnault is justifying the lynching of Israeli supporters »
Comments which aroused indignation. “What we saw last night in Amsterdam was a pogrom […]. Reflex of the far left: victim inversion, justification »wrote the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard on X, citing Raphaël Arnault's tweet. MP Hervé de Lépînau also reacted to the comments of his colleague Insoumis. “The problematic MP Raphaël Arnault is in the process of justifying […] the lynching of Israeli supporters, also criticized X, the elected representative of the National Rally. LFI is a powerful vector of anti-Semitism. »
In order to illustrate his remarks about Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters, Raphaël Arnault published a photo of fans of… Beitar Jerusalem. A totally different club, but which also displays the color yellow as its emblem. This, it seems, was enough to mislead the deputy for Rhône. After all, “when you follow football a little”…
