If Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema could repeat the press conference on the day after the Ajax vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match, she ...

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has said she would not again use the word “pogrom” when talking about the violence surrounding ...

Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber has refused to work with the former spokesperson for Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. The spokesperson had been appointed to fill a vacancy on Faber’s team, but the ...

The post FM Sa’ar slams Amsterdam mayor for backtracking on use of word ‘pogrom’ to describe antisemitic violence appeared ...

The application of the term "pogrom" was not an Israeli invention. It was used by Dutch politicians who recognized the severity and antisemitic nature of the incident," Sa'ar said.

Mayor Femke Halsema was speaking at an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council days after the Dutch capital was ...

Ex-undersecretary Nora Achahbar, who was born in Morocco, quit after right-wing pol Geert Wilders called for the deportation ...

A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a "Jew hunt" in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what ...

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has walked back her use of the term “massacre” to describe violent clashes between Israeli fans and Dutch fans of Moroccan descent that occurred earlier this month. In a ...

There are concerns the unrest has damaged community relations and tensions have spilled over into politics too.

City officials say 10 Israelis were arrested ahead of Thursday's soccer match; Dutch police warn of fresh calls for rioting ...

Five more people have been arrested after Israeli football supporters were attacked in Amsterdam in an incident that has been ...