Sky News Re-Edit Fiasco. Sky News Alters Amsterdam Coverage to Highlight Antisemitism, Downplay Anti-Arab Violence
Sky News’ revised report reshapes the Amsterdam protests narrative, focusing on antisemitism while minimizing earlier mentions of anti-Arab sentiments and Israeli fan actions.
🧵🚨 This is unbelievable. After mysteriously removing their original coverage yesterday of the Amsterdam protests, Sky News has now released a revised version. In this new report, the narrative takes a major shift, with a strong emphasis on antisemitic violence, downplaying earlier references to anti-Arab slogans and vandalism by Israeli fans. Check out the change in the opening screenshot below for a side-by-side comparison.
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!
Sky have also inserted into the video, right after the opening footage of Dutch Prime Minister condemning antisemitism. This was not in the original video.
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"
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.
In one sequence, the voiceover has changed to anonymise Maccabi violence. It has changed from 'Maccabi hooligans chasing people down a steeet’, to 'a group of hooded men can be seen chasing people down a street'.
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)
Here are both videos for posterity and comparison
Thanks for flagging SkyNews's shameful cave to pro-Israel political pressures. It wasn't alone in that failure. As Zeteo reported yesterday, a host of other major western news outlets, including the New York Times, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the BBC, headlined what they called "antisemitic" attacks on the Israeli soccer fans, and played down the anti-Arab violence and hooliganism of the Israeli fans the day before the match. It's more evidence of the western media's mendacious reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict, in which rightful anger directed at Israel is branded as "antisemitism." We can only learn the full horrors of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza and its brutal, illegal occupation of the West Bank - international war crimes in which the US and British governments are especially complicit - from reporting by independent news platforms like this one, and by courageous Palestinian journalists.
How does she allow herself to be the face and bearer of blatant “this”-information?