Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema talks about why she regrets the language she used after the violence in Amsterdam between Israeli football fans and Dutch supporters of Palestinians.
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Toting the line…then pivoting when she feels the sharp backlash… Typical
And highly dangerous!! Divide and Rule the people 😢
Just like the word ‘genocide’.
A genocide is actually happening though. This was just a lie. An attempt to play the victim card
Nope. Explain in your own words why Srebrenica WAS a genocide and Gaza is not, Adolf.
We know who they are we just don’t know what influence they have on you or what carrot they using
Please Don’t ask my master didn’t allow it
Just when there are videos she acts like this. The damage is done we know how it is
This Women Is Disgraceful Disgusting For Its Own People’s
Do not forget the pogroms of Azeris against Armenians.
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Done the damage – too late
The word was used by you to falsely assert that the violent actions of the Maccabi supporters was perpetrated by Dutch Palestinians
Femke Halsema ❤
Domdomdom kutwijf
The damage has been done, me dear. The same type of damage done on. October 7th filled with lies. The world sees now what they never saw before, which was hidden from the public. The zionists state lies to mislead the world and people on the grand prepared to spread it. This is what happened.
Liar.
BOYCOTT ALL THE ZIONISTS OR ANYTHING TO DO WITH isreali PRODUCTS or companies
Lady please. You said it and you meant it. I can only imagine how your constituents felt. Horrible. Why are you still on that job. Disgrace. We know what you are now and nothing you say can fix it.
She’s still on that job because she has the support of the vast majority of the city council, who are the representatives of the citizens of Amsterdam. We know what she said, and why she said that because we watched her speak instead of however media and others twisted it.
Now she is trying to get away!
She was wrong in the first place,but corrected the record.She deserves some credit for that.
Corrected ?
She only said the word was used politically by others, she didn’t say it was not a pogrom.
And we do not hear excuses.
Nope, she did not. She still pretends she was right using the word.
Kh-kh-kh-kq, what a language😅
A politician misuses the word pogrom and then claims she did not think it would be misused… ??? This woman is beyond dim
She just thinks that the public is dim. Besides she already achieved what she aimed to do and framed the incident the way she wanted. She is currently issuing an apology to cover herself. It’s just like the lies they spread when everything started last year .
Leer mevrouw Halsema om tot 10 te leren tellen, voordat je reageert op gebeurtenissen
Too late, lady… Harm is already done… You should have known. These special people are always on the hunt of playing the victim.
Oh ze weet dus niet wat zegt…
She didn’t know???? Right.
Sach herr
Shamelez
She should be FIRED for prioritizing the lives of foreigners over Amsterdammers, the same people that put her in power. Shameful and disgraceful is what she is. Acting like she doesn’t know the meaning of words and their impact.
Girl, you cannot walk back your bullShyt. It was on international display for all to see. Shame!
The damage has already been done
Is she trying to say she used the word pogrom without a shred of evidence to prove it on account of political pressure from The Hague and elsewhere ? Why doesn’t she simply say » I made a very big mistake « ?
Femke Halsema, she was an icon of green left party. She reminds me of Tony Blair. I don’t trust the European left anymore.
Is this her idea of an apology? She called people correcting the record in real time antisemetic. She jumped to the wrong conclusion and used it to blame her own citizens.
Caught with real evidence she is eating humble pie. But a dim wit politician probably funded by Jewish lobby.
‘If I had known’? 🙄 She is disgraceful
Scream the lie mumble the truth
A pogrom really..five injured and released from hospital.
Esta mujer esta al servicio de Netanjahu y Galland. Su grito “progrom antisemita” es otro intento de desacreditar al movimiento por la libertad de Palestina culpandolos de ser la causa de la guerra. Pero la hora de la libertad ha llegado para los palestinos y ella no podra evitarlo. El burdo intento ha quedado al descubierto y ella trata de salvar su pellejo con excusas que nadie le cree.
She should be fired! A puppet of mossad and the Israeli regime
What did your ancestors do in east Indies ?
You lied the first time you used that word and you’re lying a second time explaining how you used that word. There should be no excuse to allow any type of violence towards any minority group. If you had listened to the complaints days before the match, you would not have allowed three thousand football hooligans in your city. Now you have a crisis on your hands and instead of owning up to your mistakes you are back pedaling a mile a minute. You didn’t keep your citizens safe. You should be ashamed of your misjudgment.
Shame of You
Never has that word been used in NZ before. News written by outsiders with an agenda. Blatant… Just like those two “leaked” documents with that slight skew. They treat us like we’re sheep, easily fooled by the Judas goat.
She immediately took the side of the aggressors who were attacking the people of Amsterdam. I would suggest, as the mayor, that she would have more faith in the citizens that she’s supposed to represent and come to their defence! She should do the decent thing and resign!
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I have watched the whole interview she also said while it was happening middle in the night she got pressured international and national she said while it was happening Nethanyahu was already on the phone pressuring her like the right wing Dutch government she also said i got wrong information about the racist zionist hooligans they told her no worries there is no risk of riots
Al Jazeera denies holocaust
Washing hands
It’s literally happened in Europe and again.
Amsterdam will have to choose it’s new mayor get rid of fakes
The damage already has been done
Too late, what an irresponsibility or hypocrisy
75% of Dutch Jews, mostly given over by the Dutch to the Germans in the Holocaust ( sorry war) were butchered and this woman has the effrontery to try to whitewash what happened in Amsterdam 80 years later!!! Unbelievable
What iss pogroms is it possible that Israel Zionist could be using them against the people if Gaza, pr it it only Jewish people who can be a victim of a progrom
😔🤲☝️
Next one to lose an election after Harris 😂
she is slowly waking up. in the parliament someone (caroline vd plas) has exposed a report send to all parliament members, with a blacklist of people and moslim organisations as ‘potential terrorists to keep an eye on’.. but there were normal people in that list, not terrorists. so the fact that they publcly distant themselves from this report means that the real connection behind the scenes with the israelian secret service .. is now breaking. the netherlands is a small country and they just use the intelligence of other western countries. but now the coin drops finally that they cant use israelian intelligence anymore now that they turned beserk. when they killed hamas leaders with the exploding phones everyone was ok so now the war is finished, you have what you wanted. so ever since they went in and on even attackung UN and other countries etc. so fnally only now it dawns to them that they should leave the sinking ship.
but the taxidriver that is seriously injured in hospital doesnt dare to press charges out of fear to be called “terrorist” and losing his texi lisense. so people are askung this mayor and other politicians who are so into non-discrimination… why dont you stand up for the moslms here. why is your loyalty not with your own citizins and taxpayers but with outsiders?
She knew very well what would happen when she intentionally used that word. 👎
Just trying to cover her own self with the cloak of virtue. Nuh uh lady.
She knew
She’s not apologizing because she was wrong. She’s apologizing because the public called her out about lying.
More lies and cutting a sorry figure! Why jump to a conclusion and shame a community if you don’t know the facts!! Which is highly unlikely… if being the mayor, she doesn’t have the information about her city until a day after and needs youtubers to show them, but uses these words then she should find another job!
Apparently she is not good quality politician, specifically for Amsterdam and the Netherlands scale. She should immediately resign and never back to politics again.