The attacks against Israeli fans after a football match in Amsterdam last week was a “poisonous cocktail” of anti-Semitism and hooligan behaviour, the city’s mayor said, AFP reports.
“The incident was a poisonous cocktail of anti-Semitism and hooliganism,” Femke Halsema said, adding that “injustice has been done to both Jews in our city as well as people of minorities who sympathise with the Palestinians.”
Halsema was speaking at an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council days after the Dutch capital was rocked by violence between Israeli football fans and men on scooters in several areas of the city.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has described the men as “with a migration background”.
