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At least five people have been hospitalized and 62 others were detained after a night of violence targeting Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam on Thursday, authorities said. The Israeli National ...
Footage of Israeli fans being escorted to the metro by police after the match showed them singing anti-Arab songs. [72] A video, geolocated by Sky News to the Amsterdam city centre after dark on 7 November, showed Israeli supporters pulling down another Palestinian flag from a building, accompanied by chants of "Olé, olé" and "fuck you". [72]
Rioters "actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack" after a football match in Amsterdam, authorities have said – as Israel said it was sending planes to the Dutch capital to fly fans home.
Israel's government sent two rescue planes to Amsterdam to evacuate its citizens who were injured in an outbreak of violence linked to a soccer game. Israeli soccer fans attacked in incident ...
Another Israeli fan, Alyia Cohen, said upon arriving back in Israel that he would go back to Amsterdam for future matches. “We are not afraid of anything, ours is the people of Israel.” Five people were treated in the hospital and released, while some 20 to 30 people suffered light injuries, police said.
The attacks on Israeli fans were widely condemned as criminal and antisemitic [18] [19] by Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema [20], Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof [21], King Willem-Alexander [22], and international leaders [23] [24]. The attacks and other acts by Israeli fans were also criticized for anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. A ...
La Familia is an ultras group which supports the Israeli Premier League club Beitar Jerusalem. [1] The group primarily consists of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish descendants of the Jewish exodus from Arab countries and is known for its far-right, nationalist extremism and anti-Arab racism.
Amsterdam has banned demonstrations for three days after Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in the city overnight, which Dutch authorities condemned Friday as antisemitic.