Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said in an interview that the Israeli government referred to the attacks on Israeli soccer fans in her city as a pogrom to 'incriminate Muslim Moroccans.'

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Amsterdam mayor says pogrom targeting Israelis was not a pogrom

Femke Halsema said the term became political propaganda after violence between Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters sparked heated debate

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Amsterdam mayor regrets calling attack on Israeli soccer fans a pogrom

Femka Halsema accused the Israeli government and Dutch politicians of using the term 'pogrom' as propaganda to attack the Muslim community.

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Femke Halsema used the term to describe the violence which followed a football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local Ajax football club.

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Amsterdam mayor says she regrets use of word 'pogrom'

Politicians in Israel commented on the words of Femka Alsama, who claimed that she regrets having immediately and without reservation adopted the claim that the pogrom in Amsterdam was an attack on anti-Semitic grounds

פוליטיקאים בישראל התייחסו לדבריה של פמקה האלסמה, שטענה כי היא מתחרטת שאימצה באופן מידי וללא סייגים את הטענה לפיה הפוגרום באמסטרדם היה מתקפה על רקע אנטישמי

ראש עיריית אמסטרדם טענה שזה לא היה פוגרום - ואז הגיעו התגובות הקשות

Maariv Online

The mayor of Amsterdam claimed that it was not a pogrom - and then came the harsh reactions

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'Pogrom - Israeli propaganda': Amsterdam Mayor makes outrageous statement

Amsterdam mayor says “pogrom” is being used as propaganda

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Amsterdam mayor says "pogrom" is being used as propaganda - DutchNews.nl

Amsterdam's mayor, Femke Halsema, has backtracked on her previous use of the word "pogrom" to describe violence in the city between Israeli football hooligans and local young people mostly of Moroccan and other Arab descent. She told the Dutch television programme Nieuwsuur (News Hour) on Sunday that if she could have repeated a press conference she gave the day after the match between Dutch side Ajax and Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv, she would not…

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Amsterdam mayor regrets using 'pogrom' to describe violence

Mayor says term used by Israeli government is 'propaganda'; Says she was under international pressure immediately following the attacks on Israeli soccer fans and 'spoke before we had data about the conduct of the Israelis'

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Amsterdam mayor says violence against Israeli soccer fans was not 'pogrom'

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema on Sunday appeared to retract her use of the word “pogrom” in connection with the mass assaults by Arabs on Israelis in her city on Nov. 7.
Halsema, a former leader of the left-wing D66 party, said during a panel discussion on the NOS broadcaster that the term in the context of the attacks had become too politically loaded and a propaganda tool.
Her remarks are part of a broader narrative shift in the Netherlands ab…

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Amsterdam mayor walks back ‘pogrom’ label for assaults

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema on Sunday appeared to retract her use of the word “pogrom” in connection with the mass assaults by Arabs on Israelis in her city on Nov. 7.
Halsema, a former leader of the left-wing D66 party, said during a panel discussion on the NOS broadcaster that the term in the context of the attacks had become too politically loaded and a propaganda tool.
Her remarks are part of a broader narrative shift in the Netherlands ab…

Amsterdam mayor walks back ‘pogrom’ label for assaults

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