Violence that erupted overnight in Amsterdam following a Europa League football match between host team Ajax and Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv represents an "explosion" of anti-Semitism that has "not been seen in a long time," says the city's mayor Femke Halsema.
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00:00Anti-Semitism was never far away.
00:04The war in the Middle East now threatens the peace in our city.
00:09Yesterday, there was an outbreak of anti-Semitism...
00:12...which we no longer hoped to see in Amsterdam.
00:18I am angry and on behalf of the city council and the Triangle...
00:24...express the strongest condemnation of the violence that took place.
00:31Among our Jewish Amsterdammers there is fear, outrage, anger, disbelief.