Israeli ministers have hit out at Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema who has backtracked on her use of the word pogrom when ...

Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber has refused to work with the former spokesperson for Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. The spokesperson had been appointed to fill a vacancy on Faber’s team, but the ...

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has walked back her use of the term “massacre” to describe violent clashes between Israeli fans and Dutch fans of Moroccan descent that occurred earlier this month. In a ...

The post FM Sa’ar slams Amsterdam mayor for backtracking on use of word ‘pogrom’ to describe antisemitic violence appeared ...

The application of the term "pogrom" was not an Israeli invention. It was used by Dutch politicians who recognized the severity and antisemitic nature of the incident," Sa'ar said.

Femke Halsema said the word ‘pogrom’ in relation to violence involving Israeli fans had been used by politicians to target ...

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has said she would not again use the word “pogrom” when talking about the violence surrounding ...

If Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema could repeat the press conference on the day after the Ajax vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match, she ...

Ex-undersecretary Nora Achahbar, who was born in Morocco, quit after right-wing pol Geert Wilders called for the deportation ...

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema on Sunday appeared to retract her use of the word “pogrom” in connection with the mass assaults by Arabs on Israelis in her city on Nov. 7. Halsema, a former leader of ...

There are concerns the unrest has damaged community relations and tensions have spilled over into politics too.