Dutch police are investigating reports that Amsterdam taxi drivers played a major role in a wave of antisemitic attacks against Israeli football fans in the capital last night, using ride apps to track down their victims.
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At least ten supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club were injured and five hospitalised after violence flared following a match with Amsterdam’s Ajax team.
Israeli and Dutch leaders have denounced the violence and likened it to a pogrom. Police in Amsterdam noted that pro-Palestinian rioters “actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack them”.
Chanan Hertzberger, the chairman of the Central Jewish Council in the Netherlands, compared the violence to the Kristallnacht persecutions in Nazi Germany. The riots flared as he and others were marking the 86th anniversary of the 1938 attacks last night.
“Our capital was the scene of a pogrom that would not have been out of place in Nazi Germany, albeit the contemporary version: the antisemitic gangs who, under the guise of anti-Zionism, have been trying to make life impossible for Jews in the Netherlands for some time now,” he said.
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