Some Maccabi supporters engaged in repugnant hooliganism, but Deborah Lipstadt gets it right here:

>> “People are now saying the crowd was rowdy, the Israelis were saying, ‘Let’s kill the Arabs,’” Lipstadt noted. “I don’t care what they were saying, that doesn’t give you the right to kick someone when they’re down on the ground and make people say ‘I’m not a Jew’ in order to escape safely.” <<

The pogrom in Amsterdam reflects a troubling trend of antisemitism – The Forward

https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/looking-forward/673240/amsterdam-pogrom-violence-maccabi-tel-aviv-soccer-antisemitism-antizionism-netherlands-adl/

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How the Amsterdam pogrom is—and isn't—like Europe in the 1930s

The attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam crossed the line from fair criticism of Israel to violence against Jews and Israelis

The Forward