The antisemites who led last week’s attack on Jewish soccer fans in Amsterdam had called for an organized “Jew hunt” in the city in the hours leading up to the mass assault, officials and witnesses said. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said Thursday night’s violence was sparked by people discussing “going on Jew hunts” on the…
EXPLAINER Tensions in the capital of the Netherlands had been brewing after Maccabi football fans took down a Palestine flag. The Dutch capital of Amsterdam is under strict security measures after clashes erupted this week between pro-Palestine supporters and fans of an Israeli football club before a UEFA Europa League match. Tensions first escalated when…
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…
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…
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…
Amsterdam — Antisemitic rioters “actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them” after a soccer match in Amsterdam, authorities in the Netherlands said Friday, with police reporting five people hospitalized and 62 detained after a night of violence between. The police did not mention the nationality of any of those injured or arrested…
Israeli soccer fans were ambushed and brutally assaulted in Amsterdam overnight Thursday by a mob shouting “Free Palestine,” leading the Jewish state’s government to send planes to evacuate its citizens, officials said. Hundreds of fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer club were targeted as they walked out of the stadium following a Europa League…
