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☆ Amsterdam soccer riots: Five men sentenced for their involvement
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-24 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A Dutch court sentenced five men on Tuesday for charges related to violence that broke out after a soccer match in Amsterdam last month. After the match, Maccabi fans were violently attacked in the streets. Of the men sentenced on Tuesday, three were found guilty of committing violence and two were found guilty of aiding and abetting violence, a statement from the Dutch court said. The men were sentenced to a month and 10 weeks in prison, respectively. The five men are the first to be tried and sentenced in connection with the riots.

Persons: Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, Geert Wilders, René de Beukelaer Organizations: CNN, Israel’s Maccabi Tel, Amsterdam’s Ajax, Maccabi, Amsterdam Mayor, NOS Locations: Amsterdam, Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Dutch, Netherlands

☆ Amsterdam soccer riots: How a toxic mix of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia culminated in violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

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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☆ Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Matthew Mulligan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Video geolocated by NBC News also showed Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. "In several places in the city, supporters were attacked," the mayoral office said. Officials said police had to intervene several times and escort Israeli fans to their hotels. Several Israeli citizens remain unaccounted for in Amsterdam following the overnight violence, an Israeli official told NBC News. Police escort Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters to the metro in Amsterdam on Thursday night.

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☆ Why sex workers are protesting in Amsterdam
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Jessie Gretener | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The reduced hours come amid an ongoing campaign by the city council to move sex workers into an “erotic center” outside the heart of the city. She also spoke about welfare concerns for all sex workers, explaining how it could impact their ability to get home safely. A protest organized by sex workers interrupted a city council meeting on Thursday that was discussing location options for the proposed erotic center. Sex workers disagree, with Red Light United arguing that the erotic center could create an environment for more crime and “shady” behavior. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty ImagesRestrictions for sex workers is just one bullet point on Amsterdam’s re-branding attempt.

But a new survey suggests a “disturbing” lack of awareness about the Holocaust in the Netherlands, where she and her family hid for years before being discovered and deported to a Nazi concentration camp. Equally disturbing is the trend toward Holocaust denial and distortion,” Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor said in a press release accompanying the survey. Some of them, a small part, do not even know about the Holocaust,” Dutch Holocaust survivor Max Arpels Lezer, 86, told NBC News by video call from his home in Amsterdam. A memorial at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, where Dutch Jews were kept before being sent to concentration camps. In 1961, Lezer married Sofia, now 86, who as a child had been hidden by a Dutch family during the war.

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