Dutch police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Amsterdam on Sunday, November 10, who had gathered despite a ban on gatherings in the city. These arrests come following the confirmation by the Dutch courts of the ban, requested by the mayor of the city, of this demonstration planned on Dam Square, in the city center.
Police in riot gear intervened as demonstrators chanted slogans and waved signs, three days after violence on the sidelines of a football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
“The mayor rightly decided that there would be a ban on demonstrations this weekend in the city”the Amsterdam court announced on X, adding that a request to overturn the ban had been “rejected”. Dutch activist Frank van der Linde announced that he wanted to demonstrate at Dam Square against the “genocide in Gaza, but also because [le] right to demonstrate has been withdrawn »he said, quoted by the Dutch national agency ANP.
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“This demonstration has nothing to do with anti-Semitism”said a participant in the rally to AFP. She is “against the Israeli hooligans who were destroying our city”he added. The Israeli embassy in The Hague advised in a statement on Sunday “Israelis and Jews staying in Amsterdam (…) to stay away from demonstrations ».
During the night from Thursday to Friday, supporters of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel-Aviv were violently attacked by groups of individuals in the streets of Amsterdam. This violence has sparked outrage around the world, with US President Joe Biden describing it as violence “anti-Semites” et “despicable”. Five Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were briefly hospitalized. Around sixty people were arrested.
