Femke Halsema, the mayor of Amsterdam, may have touched off a diplomatic incident last week when she said on a Dutch ...

The mayor’s 180-degree turn about the violence that happened in her city speaks volumes about how the left in Europe enables ...

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

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.

Femke Halsema said the word ‘pogrom’ in relation to violence involving Israeli fans had been used by politicians to target ...

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

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 ...

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

French MP Raphaël Arnault has accused Israeli fans of deliberately inciting trouble during their team’s match against France.

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 ...

Last November, a month after the Israel-Gaza war began, far-right populist Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV) won the most ...