Amsterdam nonetheless in shock after an evening of “Jew hunting” | EUROtoday

“ OWe didn’t think this could happen to us in Amsterdam. It’s a shock,” Tevel Caro, 18, confides on the cellphone. The motive for his astonishment leaves little room for doubt, assures this younger Israeli, future conscript into the ranks of the Tsahal, the Israeli military: “We were not attacked because we are football supporters but because that we are Israelis, Jews. » On November 7, after the defeat of Maccabi Tel-Aviv on the pitch of Ajax Amsterdam (5-0), many nationals of the Hebrew state were attacked in the city center of the Dutch city .

Scenes of rare violence, which sparked a wave of indignation. Israeli President Isaac Herzog denounced an “anti-Semitic pogrom”. “A dark night and a dark day”, was…