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 ...

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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 ...

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.

A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a "Jew hunt" in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what ...

The altercation came a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli club team’s visit.

Hard-right Dutch political leader Geert Wilders on Wednesday blamed “Moroccans” for attacks on Israeli soccer fans in ...

As incidents of both antisemitic and Islamaphobic abuse surge across Europe, a soccer match between Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv ...

The warning comes after the city extended a ban on protests through Thursday. Additional protests occurred Monday anyways, when dozens of people armed with sticks and firecrackers set a tram on fire.