Security personnel walk outside the venue for the Cop29 UN Climate Summit,, November 9, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan
DUTCH Prime Minister c has pulled out of the Cop29 talks beginning tomorrow in Amsterdam, citing violence involving the clashes between Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans and residents last week.
Far-right supporters of the Israeli football team rampaged through Amsterdam on Thursday night, tearing down Palestinian flags and chanting racist slogans including “Death to Arabs” and “Why are there no schools in Gaza? Because there are no children left.”
Local youths and taxi drivers, many of them Muslim, brawled with groups of the fans in response in what authorities say were anti-semitic attacks.
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
