Thread by @marcowenjones

🧵🚨1/ This is nuts. After mysteriously deleting a package covering the Amsterdam protests, Sky News have put up a new version. The new version completely changes the thrust to emphasise that the violence was antisemitic. See the opening screenshot change below

2/Even the tweet accompanying the video has changed. It has explicitly shifted from mentioning anti-Arab slogans to removing the phrase "anti-Arab" and using antisemitism. It also removes mention of vandalism by Israeli fans. An extremely clear editorial shift!

3/ They have also inserted into the video, right after the opening footage of Dutch Prime Minister condemning antisemitsm. This was not in the original video.

4/In the new video they've also added an impact narrative /vox pops but ONLY from a maccabi fan - not an Amsterdam resident. In it he says the attacks reminded him of October 7th....Nothing from the "other side"

5/ As if it couldn't get any worse - the original report ends with the reporter saying that while politicians had called it a pogrom, "their statements failed to mention the assaults by Israeli hooligans against Dutch citizens" . This bit was DELETED. I've included it below

This was Sky News' justification. I should add that while the new video does include examples of Maccabi violence - the overall edit is blatantly designed to downplay anti-Arab violence (as i hope this thread has shown)

nb: Here are both videos for posterity

Here's my write up of what preceded this Sky News debacle in the media #Amsterdam

Update: The voiceover over @iAnnetnl 's footage was changed to anonymise Maccabi violence. It has changed from 'Maccabi hooligans chasing people down a street’, to 'a group of hooded men can be seen chasing people down a street'.

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