Israeli hooligans tearing down a Palestinian flag hanging on an Amsterdam building in solidarity with the Palestinian people being massacred in Gaza by the occupation entity of "Israel." Photo: X/@hel7endy.
The Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement commented on the events that took place in the streets of Amsterdam and the reactions of the racist Dutch regime that targeted Arab and progressive youth and supporters of Palestine. These repressive attacks continue to target the free revolutionary voices that defend Palestinian rights and reject the Zionist war of extermination in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, instead of the Netherlands preventing the entry of racist hooligan fans of Zionist football clubs and holding them accountable for their assaults on the population. These racist football hooligans participate directly in the crimes of the Zionist enemy and consider themselves an integral part of the ranks of the Zionist army; they form armed colonial militias and carry out daily attacks on our people in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank and call for the displacement of the Palestinian people and desecration of Islamic and Christian holy sites.
The Masar Badil Movement salutes the Arab and progressive youth and supporters of Palestine in Amsterdam who stood up for justice and the Palestinian people, confronting the racist Zionist crowd that tore up the Palestinian flag, provoking popular sentiment and the supporters of justice and humanity as they chanted in support of the genocide waged by the Zionist occupation army against our people in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip.
The fans of the Zionist clubs, especially “Maccabi Tel Aviv”, essentially form a militia affiliated with the Zionist army in Palestine, routinely incite against the Palestinian people and openly call for the killing of Palestinian athletes. This time, their fascist nature was revealed in the streets of Amsterdam.
Accordingly, we call to confront every attempt to whitewash the crimes of the Zionist regime under the banner of “sports.” We also call for ending the relationship with Zionist sports clubs, boycotting them, and preventing them from participating in the stadiums and arenas of Europe, as sports fans did by confronting South Africa during the apartheid regime.
We call on our Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communities and all forces of solidarity with our people in the Netherlands and other European countries to confront the so-called “fans of Israeli teams” and to confront their racist activities — led by Israeli security teams and Mossad members inside the embassies of the Zionist entity — that promote genocide and mobilize the Zionist football hooligans in order to divert attention from the Zionist-U.S. war crimes that they are committing continually in the Gaza Strip.
We call on fans of European sports teams to declare their position rejecting racism, fascism and the ongoing Zionist aggression against Palestine and Lebanon.
Together towards boycotting Zionist sports teams and confronting the genocide in Palestine and Lebanon!
No place for Zionism, racism and fascism in the squares and stadiums of Europe!
Immediate freedom for the detained supporters of Palestine in Dutch prisons!
