A misleading video has gone viral on social media, supposedly showing a brawl in Amsterdam during the trouble that took place in the Dutch capital before and after a football match.
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00:00A misleading video has gone viral on social media, supposedly showing a brawl in Amsterdam
00:13during the trouble that took place in the Dutch capital after a football match.
00:18The video, which has a watermark of the Telegram channel MASH, has been re-shared on other
00:25social media, including YouTube and X, using hashtags like Erub, Ajax and Zionists.
00:32The post claims to show a 28-second video of a brawl between Israeli football fans and
00:39pro-Palestine demonstrators.
00:42However, that is not the case.
00:45The video actually shows an incident that occurred in Russia outside of Locking Room's
00:51nightclub in November 2021.
00:54On closer inspection, we can identify with the help of reverse image search that the
00:59video takes place on Tverskaya Street in Moscow.
01:04Local media reported that the fight lasted between 15 and 20 minutes, with two people
01:09being killed during the clash.
01:22As misinformation circulated around last week's clashes, European leaders labeled the attacks
01:29on Israeli supporters as anti-Semitic.
01:33Local police also reported tensions first started when Maccabi supporters set a Palestinian
01:39flag on fire in Dam Square and ripped other flags off the walls of residential homes.
01:46This incident threatens to escalate the already simmering polarization between the two communities.