On the night of Thursday, Nov. 7, the Dutch capital of Amsterdam witnessed Europe’s first pogrom since 1945. Around 3,000 Israeli Jews were in town to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv play a UEFA league match against the Dutch team Ajax. Between midnight and dawn, local Muslims and Arabs launched what they called a “Jew hunt.”
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