Outrage Over Measly Sentences for Attackers Behind Post-Soccer Match ‘Jew Hunt’ in Amsterdam

The weightiest sentence of three months was doled out to one of the central organizers behind the attack who offered up locations of Israeli fans to a 1,000-member Whatsapp group.

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In this image taken from video, police escort Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters to the metro station leading them to the Ajax stadium, after pro-Palestinian supporters marched near the stadium, at Amsterdam, the Netherlands November 7, 2024. AP

A Dutch criminal court on Wednesday sentenced four men behind the “Jew hunt” attack against Israeli soccer fans that rocked Amsterdam last November, though the lenient prison terms are drawing outrage from the Jewish community in Europe. 

“The prison terms of the sentences are so mild that the Dutch legal system actually incentivizes the ‘Jew hunters’ for another round of hunting,” an Israeli-dutch parliamentarian, Gidi Markuszower, said in response to the sentences. “It’s very clear that mainstream media and mainly politicians from the left are more comfortable providing cover for their fellow antisemites than protecting the Jews here in the Netherlands.”

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