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The Guardian // World // Europe

What happened in Amsterdam involving Israeli football fans?

Monday 11th November 2024, 3:20PM

Here is what we know so far about the violence surrounding Maccabi Tel Aviv’s match against Ajax last weekViolence in Amsterdam around a Europa League football match between local team Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv sparked global horror, against a backdrop of soaring antisemitic and Islamophobic abuse and attacks across Europe fuelled by the Middle East conflict.The Amsterdam mayor, Femke Halsema, has said she had not been told the match was high risk. Earlier last week, however, the Turkish club Beşiktaş moved their 28 November match against Maccabi Tel Aviv to a neutral country for fear of “provocative actions”. Continue reading...

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