On Thursday, scenes of Europe’s ugly past seemed to have returned with a full-scale pogrom by pro-Palestinian thugs chasing and beating fans of an Israeli soccer team through the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, ABC’s Good Morning America saw no reason to cover these horrifying acts of violence that resulted in rescue planes being dispatched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rescue them.
The Israelis were in the Dutch capital to support Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., a team in the Israeli Premier League facing off against AFC Ajax Amsterdam in UEFA Europa League competition.
NBC’s Today had a different idea by leading each of their two hours with this. Co-host Savannah Guthrie didn’t mince words in the first tease, calling it “a shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe” and “ambush” of “Israeli soccer…
