The Chief Executive Officer for soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv said on Friday that he believes his team's fans were attacked "because of their Jewishness" as the team arrived back in Israel.

Dutch police have made 62 arrests and confirmed five people have been injured after Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were attacked in Amsterdam following their Europa League tie with Ajax on Thursday. Riot police had to intervene after Maccabi supporters were “attacked,

Israeli soccer fans on Friday recounted their terror when mobs of antisemitic rioters targeted and beat up Israelis Thursday, and said the police failed to protect them, in what was described as a twenty-first century “pogrom.