Last week, Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets, Palestinian flags ripped off walls and antisemitic slurs yelled during riots.
But the timeline of how tensions ignited in Amsterdam is different depending on which community you ask.
“It’s really so, so manipulative… It only makes everything worse,” Jaïr Stranders, a local theater director and a board member of the Liberal Jewish Community of Amsterdam told CNN.
But in Amsterdam, many local Jewish officials as well as the mayor have urged against using that description.
“They are Dutch youth,” he noted, adding that Amsterdam is a city of many nationalities and many values that can peacefully coexist.
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