Maccabi Tel Aviv FC supporters had been reportedly the goal of violence in Amsterdam Thursday earlier than and in the course of the soccer group’s match in opposition to Ajax.
Movies posted on social media appeared to indicate a number of fights in streets.
Spanish media reported earlier within the week anti-Israel agitators would protest exterior the stadium the place the match was being performed, concentrating on the membership and its followers.
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Israeli followers with flags within the stands. (Reuters/Jennifer Lorenzini)
Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, gave an unique assertion to Fox Information Digital on Thursday evening.
“We’re seeing a pogrom in opposition to Jews and Israelis unfold in Amsterdam,” Danon stated. “In 2024. This should cease. ‘Globalize the intifada’ was not only a slogan for these terrorist supporters. I urge the Dutch authorities to assist all Israelis and Jewish individuals instantly. It’s time to reply with drive in opposition to these barbaric rioters.”
Danon additionally elaborated and posted a video on X
“We’re receiving very disturbing stories of maximum violence in opposition to Israelis and Jews on the streets of Holland,” he wrote. “There’s a pogrom presently going down in Europe in 2024. These are the true faces of the supporters of the novel terrorism we’re preventing. The western world must get up now!!
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“That is the time when the UN ought to instantly and clearly condemn the violence of the Palestinians and their supporters. The Dutch authorities should take decisive motion in opposition to terrorism now.”
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett known as on Dutch authorities to behave.
The Embassy of Israel to the U.S. additionally posted a graphic video of the violence.
“A whole bunch of followers of the @MaccabiTLVFC soccer group had been ambushed and attacked in Amsterdam tonight as they left the stadium following a recreation in opposition to @AFCAjax. The mob who focused these harmless Israelis has proudly shared their violent acts on social media.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., condemned the violence as effectively.
“The hysterical and hyperbolic demonization of Israel has led to a worldwide outbreak of antisemitic vitriol, vandalism, and violence,” he wrote on X. “The only most monstrous manifestation of antisemitism is a pogrom that’s presently unfolding in opposition to tons of of Jews who had been cheering on the Tel Aviv Soccer Membership in Amsterdam.
“These inciting antisemitism now have the blood of a Twenty first-century pogrom on their arms. The scenario is so dire that the Israeli authorities is dispatching rescue groups for Jews in peril. I’m sick to my abdomen {that a} pogrom is occurring within the Twenty first century.”
Dozens of arrests had been made Thursday evening, most earlier than the match, the Netherlands’ RTL reported.
“There have been disturbances, together with on the Dam,” a Dutch nationwide police spokesperson informed the outlet. “We can’t point out who belongs to whom. The teams usually are not simple to differentiate from one another, virtually all of them are carrying darkish garments.”
Maccabi Tel Aviv gamers heat up earlier than a match. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
The incidents occurred 13 months after Hamas launched a terrorist assault on Israel, killing and kidnapping tons of.
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The Jerusalem Put up famous the assaults got here hours after the Netherlands commemorated the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Fox Information’ Ben Evansky contributed to this report.
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