{"id":6105,"date":"2024-11-13T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2024-11-13T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:04:33","slug":"media-lying-amsterdam-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2024-11-13\/media-lying-amsterdam-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The media’s role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker"},"content":{"rendered":"

News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\"\"\n

The media’s role in peddling disinformation over last week’s violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker.<\/p>\n

Owen Jones has interviewed a Dutch woman who shot the footage used by major outlets \u2013 from Sky News and the BBC to the Guardian and New York Times \u2013 to suggest that locals in Amsterdam carried out “antisemitic attacks” on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans.<\/p>\n

In fact, as she has noted on social media, her footage shows the exact reverse: Israeli fans attacking local Dutch residents.<\/p>\n

As I noted<\/a> in my article yesterday, despite her efforts to get these outlets to correct their mistake and issue apologies, none has done so, apart from a German news programme, Taggeschau.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 interview offers insights as to why.<\/p>\n

We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News\u2019 reporter was one of the only ones to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism.<\/p>\n

But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn’t “balanced”. The channel then heavily re-edited the segment and issued a new version that presented the footage \u2013 quite wrongly \u2013 as evidence of Dutch locals attacking Israeli fans.<\/p>\n

That was crucial to shoring up the false \u201cantisemitism\u201d and \u201cpogrom\u201d narratives spread by western politicians and the establishment media.<\/p>\n

Here’s where it gets even more disturbing. The Dutch photographer interviewed by Jones says she was interviewed by Sky News about her footage before the second, re-edited report was aired.<\/p>\n