November 2024 Amsterdam riots
| November 2024 Amsterdam riots | ||||
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| Part of anti-Palestinianism during the Gaza war, antisemitism during the Gaza war, and violent incidents in reaction to the Gaza war | ||||
Amsterdam's Dam Square, where some of the clashes occurred | ||||
| Date | 6–7 November 2024 | |||
| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||
| Methods | Riots, ambush | |||
| Resulted in | "Emergency measures" in Amsterdam | |||
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| Casualties | ||||
| Injuries | 7 hospitalized, 20–30 injured | |||
On 6 and 7 November 2024, before and after a UEFA Europa League football match in Amsterdam between Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. and Dutch club AFC Ajax, tensions over the Gaza war escalated to violence. Targets of the violence included an Arab taxi driver, Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and pro-Palestinian protesters. Seven people, including five Israelis, were sent to hospital and 20–30 people sustained light injuries.
The evening before the match, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were filmed pulling Palestinian flags from houses, making racist anti-Arab chants, assaulting people, and vandalising local property. Plans to attack Israeli fans were subsequently shared through messaging apps with one chat calling for a "Jew hunt". After the match, Maccabi fans were ambushed and assaulted across the city centre, while a group of Maccabi fans around Damrak was recorded assaulting people and vandalising local property.
The attacks on Israeli fans were condemned as antisemitic by Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof, King Willem-Alexander, and several international leaders. The failure to condemn the Israeli fans' attacks, and the characterisation of such condemnation as "antisemitic", was also described as being one-sided.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry, Palestinian Football Association, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres were among those condemning the attacks and other actions of the Israeli fans as anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. Four days after the November 2024 Amsterdam riots, Halsema published a report compiled with the chief prosecutor and chief of police which said the events were caused by a "toxic combination of antisemitism, hooliganism, and anger about the conflicts in ... the Middle East", and condemned racist violence against "all minority groups".