An alleged "Jew hunt" was announced well in advance in the messaging app Telegram, prompting rioters to travel from far outside Amsterdam to attack Israelis.
The Mossad issued a warning to security agencies in Israel and the Netherlands, requesting an immediate increase in security for Israelis attending the match and in the city.
El Al permitted to fly on Shabbat • New Israeli FM flies to Netherlands • IDF soldiers prohibited from flying to Netherlands
Phone providers are also offering free roaming packages for Israelis.
The President of United Haztalah, Eli Beer said, "This is what happens when terrorists are allowed into Europe."
"In terrible historical irony, this is happening two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich."
We now see, dramatically, that antisemitism was underground, waiting to erupt.
'Jews were hunted on horseback through the streets of Urga, lynched in their homes, tortured for amusement.'
‘People are uninformed regarding Jewish indigeneity to the Middle East,’ say organizers Carole Basri and Aurora Cassirer.
As many as 4,000 Jews were brutally murdered in the Lisbon massacre between April 19 and 21, 1506.
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