Clashes which provoke strong reactions, in Europe as in Israel. This Thursday, November 7, in Amsterdam, on the sidelines ofa football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Avivviolence broke out. In videos relayed on social networks, Israeli supporters were beaten. The Israeli authorities go so far as to speak of “anti-Semitic pogroms”. Around sixty people were arrested by the Dutch authorities.
In reality, tensions had started before the match. In a video, we see Israeli supporters entering a metro station. chanting insulting slogans against Arabs.
The match then takes place at the Ajax stadium. Back in the center of Amsterdam, this is confirmed by the Dutch police, a Palestinian flag is torn from the facade of a house.
The origin of the clashes remains unclear
We don't know what is at the origin of the clashesbut a shopkeeper, who witnessed the scene, told RTL that she saw “a group of Israeli supporters with weapons, chains, sticks”.
Once again, we do not know how the clashes began, but several videos shared, notably by a former Israeli Prime Minister, then show hooded individuals chasing other people, therefore presented as supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv, sometimes chased to their hotel. “Some are beaten to the ground,” continues the shopkeeper.
The attackers are often hooded. Some throw insults in Arabic. In yet another video, we see a young man wearing an Israeli club jacket, backed against a door.
He is forced to say “liberate Palestine”. According to the Dutch police, at least five people were hospitalized and the Israeli authorities claim to still have no news from several people.
Israeli authorities denounce a “pogrom”
In Israel, the government chartered additional flights, including free flights, to repatriate everyone. At the same time, Israeli nationals who do not plan to travel to the airport immediately are asked to rstay in their hotel room for safety reasons.
The Israeli authorities speak of a “pogrom”, which historically refers to the massacre, the pillaging of Jews by the rest of the population. The Israeli press emphasizes that lynching, another term used, took place the day before the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9.
The President Herzog wrote on X that he had hoped not to see such shocking images since the massacres of October 7, those of an anti-Semitic pogrom. And then still on X, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced “a very serious and probably premeditated anti-Semitic attack”.
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