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‘A new Kristallnacht’: Jewish, Israeli figures express horror over Amsterdam pogrom

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Israeli leaders and international Jewish figures have reacted with horror to the scenes of violent antisemitism that unfolded in Amsterdam on Thursday night following a Maccabi TLV-Ajax soccer match.

The pogrom against Israeli fans, which resulted in multiple wounded and three missing, is now apparently under control, according to Dutch officials.

Yaakov Hagoel, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, said once again, ‘we are forced to witness as Jewish blood is once again shed with impunity.’

‘I call, in the strongest and most unequivocal terms, on the leaders of the world: the responsibility for the safety of Jews in your countries is yours alone.’

The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) called the attacks on Israeli soccer fans ‘a new Kristallnacht.’

‘Exactly 86 years after Kristallnacht, when Nazis, along with ordinary Germans hunted Jews through the streets of Europe, we see their ideological heirs rampaging through the streets of Amsterdam once again seeking to spill Jewish blood,’ said CEO of CAM Sacha Roytman Dratwa…”

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