A tram has been set on fire, and at least one man attacked in the streets, as pro-Palestinian “youths” have taken to the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands days after prior antisemitic violence.
Groups of masked people dressed in black descended on the Plein area on Monday, November 11, and began rioting and setting off fireworks. In one case, which was caught in video, a tram had its windows smashed and was set on fire. A man on a bicycle was also attacked in the area as the rioters chanted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans.
North African and Arab criminals devastate Amsterdam. We have war in Europe, many still don’t know it or pretend not to know it. MEGA. pic.twitter.com/yJjcRP0Sw4
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) November 11, 2024
Local police say that the violence started at around 7:15 PM and that a large group of people took part in the violence. Several arrests were made, but it is unclear how many people were arrested.
The violence comes just days after antisemitic mobs carried out attacks on Jews and supporters of the Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer club. At least 62 people were arrested following that violence, which caused at least five people to be injured and was described as a “pogrom” by Dutch anti-Islamist populist leader Geert Wilders.
Five more people were arrested in neighboring Belgium in the city of Antwerp on Sunday, November 10, as authorities discovered a social media group of men trying to organize further violence against Jews.
Messages on the social media platform Snapchat indicated that people in the group wanted to take “action” against Jews in Antwerp. Anyone seen in the city’s Jewish neighborhood wearing balaclavas or carrying Palestinian flags was preemptively arrested.
