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    Jewish and Israeli leaders condemn anti-Semitic attacks in the Netherlands

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    Israeli leaders and international Jewish figures have reacted with horror to the scenes of violent anti-Semitism that unfolded in Amsterdam on Thursday evening after a football match between Maccabi TLV and Ajax.

    The pogrom against Israeli fans, which resulted in several injuries and three missing, is now apparently under control, Dutch officials said.

    The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) called the attacks on Israeli football fans “a new Kristallnacht.”

    “Exactly 86 years after Kristallnacht, when the Nazis, together with ordinary Germans, hunted Jews through the streets of Europe, we see their ideological heirs once again rampaging through the streets of Amsterdam in search of Jewish blood,” said CEO of CAM Sacha Roytman Dratwa.

    “Thousands of Islamists, who are today’s neo-Nazis in ideology and action, targeted Jews in a clearly premeditated and organized manner in what feels to many like a resounding echo of history.”

    Dratwa emphasized a difference between 1939 and today: the state of Israel.

    Pro-Palestinians demonstrate at Anton de Komplein in Amsterdam ahead of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on November 7, 2024. (credit: JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

    “The Jews will no longer wait as they did in ’39,” Dratwa added. “They will leave and you will have to deal with the extremism that has been allowed to fester.”

    Jews first, then West

    Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir expressed a similar sentiment, writing: “This is not only an injury to Jews and Israelis, but a warning signal to all European countries against radical Muslim violence. Those who turn a blind eye to Islamic terrorism in the Middle East will encounter it at home in Europe and the West.”

    “Today the victims were Israelis; tomorrow you will be Europeans.”

    United Haztalah President Eli Beer said: “This is what happens when terrorists enter Europe.”

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    “Tonight in the center of Amsterdam, young Jews were attacked by Palestinians, who faced an attempted lynching. The police were absent or arrived late. This is happening in the heart of Europe, and it is just the beginning. In Israel we are confronted with this every day, but now it is spreading to Europe.”

    Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon discussed the situation and called on the UN to condemn the pogrom.

    “These are the true faces of the supporters of the radical terrorism we are fighting,” he wrote.

    “The Western world must wake up now!! This is the moment when the UN must immediately and clearly condemn the violence of the Palestinians and their supporters. The Dutch authorities must now take decisive action against terrorism.”

    Former War Cabinet Secretary Benny Gantz said the pogrom “penetrates the soul of every Jew, with difficult images that remind us of dark and painful days.”

    He asked the Dutch government to do everything it could to protect the Israelis against anti-Semitic terrorists by all available means.

    “These shocking anti-Semitic attacks on the streets of a European city should be a wake-up call to Dutch and European authorities about what uncontrolled anti-Israel demonstrations lead to,” said European Jewish Congress President Dr. Ariel Musician.

    “We are deeply shocked that such a pogrom could take place on the streets of Europe, with the Israelis apparently offering little protection, but we are fully aware that these attacks are not taking place in a vacuum and against a backdrop of large-scale expressions of anti-religion take place. Jewish and Israeli hatred on the streets of European capitals, following the Hamas pogrom of Israelis on October 7 last year,” Muzicant said.

    Shir Perets contributed to this report.



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