🧵🚨1/ This is nuts. After mysteriously deleting a package covering the Amsterdam protests, Sky News have put up a new version. The new version completely changes the thrust to emphasise that the violence was antisemitic. See the opening screenshot change below
2/Even the tweet accompanying the video has changed. It has explicitly shifted from mentioning anti-Arab slogans to removing the phrase "anti-Arab" and using antisemitism. It also removes mention of vandalism by Israeli fans. An extremely clear editorial shift!
3/ They have also inserted into the video, right after the opening footage of Dutch Prime Minister condemning antisemitsm. This was not in the original video.
4/In the new video they've also added an impact narrative /vox pops but ONLY from a maccabi fan - not an Amsterdam resident. In it he says the attacks reminded him of October 7th....Nothing from the "other side"
5/ As if it couldn't get any worse - the original report ends with the reporter saying that while politicians had called it a pogrom, "their statements failed to mention the assaults by Israeli hooligans against Dutch citizens" . This bit was DELETED. I've included it below
This was Sky News' justification. I should add that while the new video does include examples of Maccabi violence - the overall edit is blatantly designed to downplay anti-Arab violence (as i hope this thread has shown)
nb: Here are both videos for posterity
Here's my write up of what preceded this Sky News debacle in the media https://x.com/marcowenjones/st... #Amsterdam
Update: The voiceover over @iAnnetnl 's footage was changed to anonymise Maccabi violence. It has changed from 'Maccabi hooligans chasing people down a street’, to 'a group of hooded men can be seen chasing people down a street'.
You can submit a complaint to Ofcom https://x.com/marcowenjones/st...
@marcowenjones Probably down to the same people at the top of Sky News who got rid of Belle Donati for nothing.
@marcowenjones Let us see if @DavidLammy has any principles? He must correct his statement or he is complicit with Israel. He is the only person who can and must do this.
@marcowenjones They got scolded by Israel obviously.
@marcowenjones Makes you wonder who controls what? We`re all being played.
@marcowenjones They (Isrealis) can do no wrong.
@marcowenjones @mehdirhasan You guys are the ones that caused Islamaphobia all over the world and ruined a potentially legitimate religion, by telling everybody that the people dying in wars are innocent people when they’re actually terrorists.
@marcowenjones The 62 arrests is not correct. Nobody was arrested as a result of the violence https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuw...
@marcowenjones Note the use of the word ‘slogans’ rather than the more accurate word ‘slurs.’ Manufacturing narrative and consent.
@marcowenjones The Macabi Haifa fans threatened to attack local Jewish community groups putting on commemoration events.
@marcowenjones Meanwhile: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/wo...
@marcowenjones What the fuck. Do they really think people are this stupid? This is straight up orwellian shit. #FUCK_ISRAEL
@marcowenjones Well... Arabs ARE SEMITIC... 🤷♂️ ZIONISM = ANTISEMITISM = FASCISM
@marcowenjones @threadreaderapp unroll
@marcowenjones @RobertMackey When Israel bombs Lebanon Israel is the victim.When Israel bombs Palestinian civilians israel is the victim.when facist hooligans attack civilians and their property in Amsterdam Israel is the victim. This is the actual narrative by Western media and their governments since '48
@marcowenjones Again, the internet is so epic. it never forgets. #MacabbiTelAviv #AmsterdamAttack #ajaxmaccabi
@marcowenjones I know pulling flags down is really really bad as you’ll agree ripping down the faces of captive Israelis is nowhere near as provocative
@marcowenjones Medhi endorses Muslims use of physical violence against jews when they are offended by speech. But cried like a bitch when someone joked about a pager.