Pro-Palestinian protesters face Dutch police while taking part in a non-authorized protest in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 10, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Anthony Deutsch

The Palestinian Authority (PA) reports on what happened in Amsterdam totally rewrite history, turning an organized vicious attack of Arabs and Muslims against Israelis into an Israeli attack on Muslims and Arabs.

There is no mention of the attacks by Arabs on the Israelis, or the videos of those injured and beaten in the streets that were posted on social media.

Instead, Palestinians read about the “deplorable incitement to violence, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia” by the Israelis on the Palestinian Football Association’s Facebook page [Nov. 8, 2024].

The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry similarly, “condemned the [Israeli] calls against Arabs and the barbaric acts that the fans of one of the racist Israeli football teams carried out in Amsterdam for three consecutive days.”

According to the WAFA report:

This included harming the symbolism of the Palestinian flag, and its removal from a number of places symbolizing support for the Palestinian right against the occupation’s [i.e., Israel’s] crimes and the ongoing annihilation in the Gaza Strip. The ministry called on the Dutch government to investigate the [Israeli] hooligans and defend the Palestinians and Arabs in the Netherlands from these Israeli settlers and soldiers, who came to the Netherlands in order to transfer their racist ideas and their crimes to the European capitals. It emphasized its opposition to all forms of violence.

[WAFA, official PA news agency, Nov. 8, 2024]

One Palestinian Authority source said that the attacks on Jews proves that “the world is sick of the Jews”:

Fatah Revolutionary Council member Tayseer Nasrallah: “What happened in the Netherlands two or three days ago is the best proof that the world is sick of the Jews-”

Official PA TV host: “Right.”

Tayseer Nasrallah: “And is sick of the Israeli arrogance and cannot stand this huge amount of hatred towards people.”

[Official PA TV, Nov. 10, 2024]

Finally, without mentioning the pogrom, The Information and Culture Commission of Fatah, the PA’s ruling party posted a cartoon celebrated the attack on the Jews:

Headline: “Amsterdam”

The cartoon shows a green five-pointed star puncturing a football featuring blue Stars of David. The caption reads, “Amsterdam: A greater act than all the noise that was heard.”

Itamar Marcus is Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.