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Amsterdam barred protests over the weekend after attacks on Israeli football fans in the Dutch capital left five people in hospital and four in custody. Benjamin Netanyahu compared Thursday’s violence to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jewish people in 1938, while the Dutch prime minister said the attacks were carried out by “antisemitic hit-and-run squads”. There were reports of people being thrown into canals and Israeli fans being asked if they were Jewish. Amsterdam’s police chief, Peter Holla, said there had been “incidents on both sides”, beginning before the game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax when Maccabi supporters set fire to a Palestinian flag, vandalised a taxi and chanted “let the IDF win, fuck the Arabs”. On Sunday, dozens of pro-Palestinian protestors were arrested after defying the city-wide ban on demonstrations.
