Two days after violence in Amsterdam following a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, residents and Jewish citizens voiced shock at the events which the mayor said had “deeply damaged” the city.
In the Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter, members of the community were keeping a low profile Saturday, but one T-shirt seller at a local market said he felt “terrible” about the violence in his home city.
Five Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were briefly hospitalised in attacks that sparked outrage around the world. The clashes came amid a rise in anti-Semitism globally since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
“It’s painful it’s frightening and it’s a shame,” said the 58-year-old, who declined to give his name for security reasons.
“I feel also the shame which every Amsterdammer has to feel because again as if history is repeating itself, Jews are attacked just because of the fact they …