Amsterdamned:
Manufacturing the Pogrom That Wasn't
In Conversation with
Sana Saeed & Mouin Rabbani
Hosted by:
Bassam Haddad & Laila Al-Arian
Thursday 14 November 2024
4:00 PM EST | 11:00 PM Palestine
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Why/How Did the Media Lie?
Contrary to all footage available, mainstream media’s portrayal obfuscated the sequence of events and eschewed how matters were instigated by supporters of the Israeli football club. Further, any causative relationship to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and its club’s hooligans was simply eliminated from the narrative.
The media were determined to amplify the claims of the political class that the events in Amsterdam were solely the product of a purported Antisemitic culture by MENA immigrants. Contrary to all footage available, mainstream media’s portrayal obfuscated the sequence of events and eschewed how matters were instigated by supporters of the Israeli football club. Any causative relationship to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and its club’s hooligans was simply eliminated from the narrative.
Join us tomorrow at 4pm EST to address "AMSTERDAMNED: Manufacturing The Pogrom that Wasn't." In this conversation our speakers, Sana Saeed and Mouin Rabbani, address how the media were determined to amplify the claims of the political class that the events in Amsterdam were solely the product of a purported Antisemitic culture by MENA immigrants.
Featuring
Sana Saeed is a media critic, former correspondent at AJ+ and host of the series Backspace, and The Israeli Occupation Style Guide.
Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.
Laila Al-Arian (co-moderator) is a Washington DC-based journalist and the executive producer of Fault Lines, an award-winning current affairs program on Al Jazeera English. She has produced documentaries on subjects ranging from the Trump administration's Muslim ban to the impact of the heroin epidemic on children and an investigation into factory conditions producing garments for Walmart and Gap in Bangladesh.
Bassam Haddad (co-moderator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute.