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On 7 November 2024, following a UEFA Europa League football match in Amsterdam between Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch club AFC Ajax, tensions over the Israel–Hamas war escalated to violence. The Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attacked an Arab taxi driver, [3] and pro-Palestinian protesters. [2] They were also targeted.
After the game, violence erupted in several areas of Amsterdam. [2] According to the Dutch police, Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were ambushed and attacked in various locations throughout the city. [2] Rioting broke out when several groups chanting pro-Palestinian slogans confronted Israeli fans in the city's Dam Square. [10]
An Amsterdam District Court on Tuesday imposed sentences of up to six months against five men who were involved in violence which erupted around a Uefa Europa League football match between the ...
Amsterdam had already seen protests and tensions because of the war in the Middle East, and local Rabbi Lody van de Kamp believes it was like a tinderbox: "If you put 2,000 [Israeli] football ...
As incidents of both antisemitic and Islamaphobic abuse surge across Europe, a soccer match between Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax of Amsterdam sparked violence in the Dutch capital and a ...
The Amsterdam district court found them guilty of a range of crimes from kicking fans of the team Maccabi Tel Aviv in the street to inciting violence in chat groups.
Although instances of football crowd violence and disorder have been a feature of association football throughout its history [13] (e.g. Millwall's ground was reportedly closed in 1920, 1934 and 1950 after crowd disturbances), the phenomenon only started to gain the media's attention in the late 1950s due to the re-emergence of violence in ...
In a 12-page letter released days after the riots, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said that the violence, which injured around 25 to 35 Israeli soccer fans, had stemmed “from a toxic combination ...