Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Attacks in Amsterdam on the visiting fans of an Israeli football club have spiralled into a diplomatic incident. Five people were taken to hospital and 62 detained in the Dutch capital on Thursday night after…
Tallow Ra’s obsession with wheelchair basketball runs deep; it’s all he can talk about. Earlier this year he even begged to stay home from a family holiday so he could keep training. The 12-year-old plays for the Hills Hornets in Sydney, after being introduced to the sport two years ago. “I think it’s just the…
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman on Friday vowed to pull his Pershing Square firm from the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam after sick soccer thugs ran amok to target Israeli fans in a string on anti-Semitic attacks in the Netherlands. Jew-hating agitators violently assaulted supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Dutch city before and…
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Jayson Tatum doesn’t want to hear anyone else’s thoughts on the matter. The Celtics star, famously glued to the bench during Team USA’s run to the gold medal in Paris over the summer, shook off the idea of Wednesday’s loss to the Warriors — helmed by Olympic coach Steve Kerr — as a revenge game….
From July-August last year, I was in Australia and New Zealand covering Spain’s Women’s World Cup win — and the scandal that followed when the country’s now-disgraced federation president Luis Rubiales gave striker Jenni Hermoso an unsolicited kiss. From months before the tournament to returning to my home in Barcelona, the experience was surreal. A…
Israeli soccer fans were targeted in what have been described as antisemitic attacks in the Netherlands after a match on Thursday. Following the Europa League game between Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam on Thursday night, videos of Israeli fans being attacked circulated on social media, although Newsweek is unable to…
EPA An Israeli football fan has described being attacked by several men in overnight violence that Amsterdam police say involved youths on scooters carrying out “hit-and-run” attacks that were hard to prevent. Adi Reuben, a 24yr-old Maccabi Tel Aviv fan who was visiting Amsterdam for the club’s Europa League match with Ajax, told the BBC…
Pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam Friday, November 8th 2024 – 09:22 UTC The Israeli fans were to be evacuated through rescue flights shortly Israeli football fans were ambushed and some of them went missing Thursday evening in Amsterdam in the aftermath of a match between FC Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv….
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam police said Friday that five people were hospitalized and 62 arrested after what authorities described as systematic violence by antisemitic rioters targeting Israeli fans following a soccer match. The Dutch and Israeli leaders denounced the violence, and condemnation poured in from Jewish groups. Israel’s foreign minister left on an urgent diplomatic…
