This Video Shows Maccabi Supporters Starting a Fight with a Dutchman, Not Muslims Hunting Jews

Misbar investigated the viral claim and found it to be misleading. Testimonies from Dutch people who witnessed the incident discredit the claim.

Maccabi Supporters Started The Fight

Misbar's team found testimonies and other pieces of footage of the incident that show that the viral claim cannot be true.

The photographer who recorded the video said that the video depicts a group of Maccabi supporters starting a fight and beating a Dutchman.

She replied to a tweet of this claim published by Eyal Yakoby, a Jewish student seen in several interviews with Fox News, saying that Maccabi supporters started the fight and confirming that she was the one who shot the video.

The photographer also provided an extended version of the video showing what happened clearly on her account, captioning the post, “Fight in front of Amsterdam Central Station.”

Misbar’s analysis of the video aligns with the photographer's testimony. Maccabi supporters could be identified in the video from their yellow and navy blue clothes, as they were starting a fight.

One person wearing a yellow blouse can be seen with those who started the fight at the end of the clip.

The yellow and navy blue are the colors of the Maccabi Tel Aviv club, which suggests that the people starting the fight in the viral clip are most probably Maccabi supporters.

Amsterdam’s Police Chief’s statement as well as a city councilor’s statement confirm our analysis.

Peter Holla, the police chief, said that the clashes started after Maccabi fans tore down a Palestinian flag from the facade of a building in the city center and shouted insulting words directed at Palestine, confirming that Maccabi fans were the ones who initiated the riots.

He then said that Maccabi supporters had vandalized a taxi as well.

Jazie Velhuyezen, a city councilor, said that the riots in Amsterdam started on Wednesday night by Maccabi supporters a day before the Maccabi-Ajax match. The councilor said Maccabi hooligans were armed with weapons and started attacking pro-Palestinian people from Amsterdam.

On the following day, the day of the match, Maccabi supporters were walking the streets of Amsterdam, singing loudly for the Israeli army while chanting insulting words to Arabs. According to the councilor, the song included a line that says, “There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left.” Accordingly, people from Amsterdam tried to protest but were confronted by the police.

Upon Defying the Ban, Pro-Palestinians Detained in Netherlands for Protesting for Palestine

The police in the Netherlands detained more than one hundred pro-Palestinian protesters upon demonstrating in Amsterdam to defy a ban on public protests.

Protesters defying the ban were calling for an end to the war in Gaza. They argued that they should be free to voice their disapproval of Israel's actions in Gaza and the actions of the Maccabi supporters.

The protesters saw that the charge of antisemitism was being weaponized to suppress Palestinian resistance and rejected this weaponization.

The mayor of Amsterdam temporarily banned protesting following clashes between Israeli football fans and pro-Palestinians after a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.

The ban was supposed to last at least until the end of the weekend, deeming the city a “high-risk security area.”

The protest came after the Israeli embassy in the Netherlands warned Israelis in Amsterdam to avoid Dam Square where the protest was held, anticipating that it would flare up into violence. Israel’s National Security Council warned Israelis to avoid anything “that could identify you as Israeli/Jewish.”

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