State media in The Netherlands is reporting extensively on casualties in Israel and about Iranian casualties they just write: Iranian state media is not reporting the amount of casualties in Iran
And then they write how Israel is only targeting military facilities.
Is there a place where I can see actual updates on Iranian casualties?
In The Netherlands the tide regarding Palestine is changing a bit (slowly though). Several cities are calling the genocide by its name and pressuring the government to stop supporting Israel. Also in a few cities student encampments have been set up again and this time more universities didn’t react by immediately calling the cops and are actually doing tiny concessions. The concessions are obviously not enough and purely symbolic but it’s a noticeable difference compared to last year where they didn’t engage in any conversation and implied that the protests are purely antisemitic.
The Iran explosion made me think of this: I’ve heard Lebanese people say the Beirut explosion is rumoured to be done by Israel, is there anything written about that possibility?
I find the sexualisation of trans people on blahaj uncomfortable, and when I still was on there I saw a lot of unmoderated sexism and ableism.
The 196 community in general has weird vibes, I’ve heard that the 196 subreddit has many vaush fans and vaush himself is just a really weird dude who normalises fetishising trans people and drawn child sexual assault material. The lemmy 196 community is a spinoff of the subreddit and the largest community on blahaj (last time I checked). I’ve had discussions with people there who linked to vaush videos as ‘source’ for why it’s ok to behave like a jerk be ableist. I think vaush is a horrible guy and his community is toxic, and some of the main posters and mods on blahaj are part of that toxic community which explains why a lot of the problematic stuff doesn’t get removed.
CW: SA and transphobia
A 17 year old trans girl named Alice Serova from Russia who sought asylum in The Netherlands was killed by neglect after she was sexually assaulted at an asylum center. The assault happened in October 2023 and she received no support or help afterwards. On this March 27 she died of an overdose at a shelter for adults. People who lived at the shelter had warned about her being in danger but the agents that checked up on her refused to call an ambulance even though she was barely breathing.
This horrific event calls attention to the dangerous situations asylum seekers in The Netherlands are put in due to neglect and underfunding from the government.
They really can’t deal with Luigi’s hotness making him look like the hero in every picture they orchestrate for him.
Since the Amsterdam maccabi hooligan event, Israel has been trying really hard to influence the narrative put out by media and politicians. The ministry of Diaspora has put out a document detailing supposed ties between Palestinian liberation activist groups and Hamas (lol). They also claim that these liberation groups preplanned the attacks on hooligans, and their proof is literally just a call for people to come join their protest during the match.
These ‘allegations’ would be funny if we did not have a right extremist government that is receptive to them.
Here is Minister Amichai Chikli outlining these conspiracies himself: https://x.com/amichaichikli/status/1856397777548284273
A large protest against budget cuts in higher education in The Netherlands that was planned for tomorrow in Utrecht has been cancelled due to (paraphrasing:) ‘threats of violence by pro Palestine protesters who planned to hijack the protest.’
This can not be seen without the context of the unrest in Amsterdam last week. Dutch media and politicians have been trying really hard this past week to paint anti genocide protesters in a very bad light, and this situation is no different. Several pro Palestine organisations have stated that they stand wholeheartedly behind the protests against the budget cuts and were joining to show their support. People are speculating that this support is being framed as hijacking now by the mayor of Utrecht and the police.
Police hasn’t arrested anyone related to Thursday night attacks on hooligans (all arestees were protesters), they have a team looking at footage and witness accounts first now. I’m a bit afraid this guy will get arrested but I don’t know how much proof there is against him. Police did say that they might try to charge for terrorism as well as and antisemitism which would be wild if they succeeded.
Maccabi hooligans in Tel Aviv airport
They’re singing the same song as in Amsterdam and now I finally have a good source on the translation:
Let the IDF win and fuck the arabs
Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there.
I made a list compiling the events from a few sources including cestmocro and plant.eenolijfboom on instagram:
Edit: added some more details on Thursday evening from the video linked.
Some additional notes from myself on how media is reacting:
Note how the police only ever acted to arrest/remove pro Palestine protesters and did not act when protestors were attacked, flags were destroyed, or racist chants were yelled by Maccabi supporters. They’re also calling the protesters ‘rioters’ in their official reports to media and didn’t use a single bad word like ‘hooligan’ or ‘rioter’ for the Maccabi supporters. The one sidedness of the mayor and police is very apparent and people are angry. Amnesty NL is calling the events unacceptable (going with the narrative of the police) and losing credibility as are almost all ‘left’ political parties.
All large Dutch new outlets yesterday were only reporting on the poor IOF nazis getting beaten up with no word about all the events that came before. This obviously angered people even more and now media are slowly publishing ‘recap’ articles are that mention at least some of the racism and provocation but still go fully with police narrative.
Antizionist jewish organisations that are speaking out about the hypocrisy are getting completely ignored by media outlets while zionist jews will get exclusive interviews about how afraid they were for weeks to come.
How big is this result? I can imagine that it was a huge bottom up fight from the workers and I wonder about the implications since it’s the largest US union.