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The media portrayal of these events as an unprovoked antisemitic attack on peaceful football supporters does not reflect the full context. The visiting fans engaged in provocative behavior, destroying private property, intimidating passerby’s, carrying flares, gathering in the city center, and directing inflammatory racist and violent chants at locals. Many were recently discharged soldiers, active in the genocide in Gaza. Their conduct at the football match itself was also more than controversial, as they refused to observe the minute of silence for Valencia flood victims. One cannot engage in violent and disruptive actions and then cry ‘antisemitism’ to avoid accountability. Our identities do not exist to absolve our actions. We find this weaponization of Jewish safety incredibly alarming.