Amsterdam is reflecting on a dark chapter in its history after violent ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks on Israeli football fans, the city’s mayor said today, with questions mounting over how the situation was able to spiral so far out of control.
The Dutch King Willem-Alexander shared his ‘deep horror and shock’ over the events in a call with Isaac Herzog, telling the Israeli president: ‘We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War Two, and last night we failed again.’
Hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were reportedly ‘ambushed and attacked’ in the Dutch capital as they left Ajax’s stadium following a Europa League match between the two sides.
Shocking videos flooded social media showing Israeli fans being chased and beaten on the streets late last night, with reports that some assailants shouted ‘free Palestine‘.
Israelis were reportedly injured in ‘hit and run’ attacks by ‘scooter gangs’ according to Mayor Femke Halsema, with the attackers largely able to evade around…
