Europe's Jews are living in fear, reveals SUE REID in a shocking dispatch from Amsterdam. Why locals say they dread Sharia law and baying mobs with 'no tolerance for Jews, women, gays or anyone but themselves'

On a Sunday successful March this year, Amsterdam's Jews went to the opening of Holland's archetypal National Holocaust Museum. It was adjacent a four-storey location connected the Prinsengracht Canal wherever a young Anne Frank hid from the Nazis for 2 years earlier being sent to her decease successful an extermination camp.

The ceremony, attended by the Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander and Israel's President Isaac Herzog, commemorated 100,000 Jews who similar Anne, were transported by bid from the Dutch superior to the camps during the Second World War.

Disgracefully, however, the museum's opening was marred by pro-Palestinian protesters screaming maltreatment connected the pavement outside. Women successful hijabs shouted anti-Semitic slogans arsenic Left-wing agitators waved posters supporting the panic radical Hamas's penetration of Israel six months earlier, connected October 7, 2023.

A heartbreaking video online shows Rudie Cortissos, 1 of the fewer Amsterdam Jews to past the Holocaust, walking into the depository for the ceremony, hand-in-hand with his great-granddaughter and facing the afloat wrath of the mob baying for their blood.

'Jews were profoundly wounded that the objection was allowed by the Amsterdam authorities that day,' Robert Oudkerk, a starring airy successful the city's Jewish assemblage and a erstwhile societal democrat MP, said this week.

'There were 400 radical astatine the depository opening and we were each shocked by the protestation successful beforehand of the small girl. Some of the guests wrong began crying. The Jews are present frightened successful Amsterdam.

'They are asking themselves: 'Where tin we spell now? We are not harmless present oregon anyplace successful occidental Europe.',' helium added.

'There are immoderate Dutch Muslims, a radical of possibly 10,000 successful this country, who are a information to us. They privation Sharia instrumentality not Western law.'

We met Mr Oudkerk astatine his location connected conditions of strict secrecy astir wherever helium lived. He said Jews person been successful Holland for 3 centuries but present they look virulent anti-Semitism connected European soil.

'In the adjacent fewer weeks – and I anticipation I americium incorrect – I judge a Jew oregon Jews volition beryllium killed,' helium said. 'I americium acrophobic to locomotion successful Amsterdam showing immoderate motion that I americium Jewish. I don't cognize if I volition get a weapon successful my chest. In the past week we reached a tipping point.'

He was referring to the unspeakable sectarian unit connected the streets of Amsterdam conscionable implicit a week agone which shocked the world. It was sparked by a clash betwixt pro-Palestinian agitators (some Muslim, immoderate Left-wing) and Israeli shot fans visiting Amsterdam for a Europa League lucifer betwixt Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, the section team, 10 days ago.

In an echo of Jew hunts successful Amsterdam by the Nazis, societal media messages showed that earlier the lucifer a deliberate program was orchestrated to ambush and onslaught the visiting shot fans.

One connection from a chat radical called Buurthuis, a Dutch connection for assemblage centre, said 24 hours earlier the lucifer connected Thursday November 7: 'Tomorrow, aft the game, astatine nighttime . . . portion 2 of the Jew hunt. We volition enactment connected them.'

On the lucifer time itself, mayhem broke out. Youths said to beryllium of Moroccan and North African practice criss-crossed the Dutch superior connected scooters to motorboat 'hit and run' attacks connected the Tel Aviv fans.

One portion of footage posted online shows a Maccabi instrumentality jumping into a canal and floundering determination to flight his attackers. As helium thrashed astir successful the water, a pursuer shouts: 'Say Free Palestine and we'll fto you go.' It is not known however the unfortunate escaped.

The idiosyncratic who posted the video connected X commented: 'This coward jumped into the canal, acrophobic of being beaten.' It is accompanied by 'crying with laughter' emojis.

A 2nd movie shows a young Israeli shot instrumentality cornered successful a constrictive alleyway wherever helium ends up crouching connected the floor. He begs for mercy, but his assailants sound him retired with a punch connected the head.

Some of the Israelis escaped lone erstwhile section Jews were alerted connected societal media and rapidly moved crossed the metropolis to rescue them from being trapped successful hotels, restaurants, and successful 1 lawsuit a casino, arsenic the mobs waited for them outside.

An Israeli diplomat upped the somesthesia this week by describing the attacks connected the shot fans arsenic a 'pogrom', the Russian word meaning 'demolish violently' that was coined successful the 19th period to picture attacks connected Jews successful non-Jewish nations.

None of this is to accidental that the visiting Maccabi fans, who person a estimation for hooliganism, were wholly innocent. After the violence, they were whisked backmost to Tel Aviv connected rescue flights sent to Holland by the Israeli government.

Worrying footage shows them connected their accomplishment astatine the airdrome chanting maltreatment astir Palestinians arsenic they mill astir waiting to beryllium taken home.

They basal accused by pro-Palestinian activists and the Dutch Muslim assemblage of being hardened by subject work successful the Israeli-Hamas struggle and deliberately stirring up occupation successful Amsterdam.

Some of the fans refused to articulation a play of soundlessness astatine the lucifer itself to people the calamity of the Spanish flood catastrophe (in the content that Spain is anti-Israel and supports Arab nations).

Another accusation is that fans pulled down a Palestinian emblem from the façade of a building, burned it, and shouted 'F*** you Palestine' during the 24-hour physique up to the match.

Social media clips uncover the visiting Israelis mounting disconnected flares and fireworks connected the streets. They are said to person chanted successful Hebrew that determination are nary children near successful Gaza – the distressing accusation being that the Israel Defence Force has bombed them each to decease pursuing the October 7 Hamas raid.

The afloat information of this ghastly episode, played retired successful a European metropolis renowned successful the modern time for its diverseness and for welcoming migrants, whitethorn ne'er beryllium known.

An authoritative study rushed retired by shocked Amsterdam officials this week is cautious not to laic the blasted decisively connected either side. It said that atrocious behaviour by Maccabi fans and Pro-Palestinian activists 'seeking confrontation' had some played a part. During the Amsterdam horrors, a synagogue had received a weaponry threat, said the report, and a ceremonial successful the metropolis marking 1938's Kristallnacht (a important day successful the Jewish calendar, erstwhile the Nazis archetypal moved against Germany's Jews by systematically destroying their homes and businesses) had to beryllium moved to a antithetic date.

Historically, the Netherlands played a shocking relation successful the wide slaughter of Jews successful Europe by Hitler during the war.

During the Nazi concern betwixt 1940 and 1944, Dutch Jews were forced onto trains from Amsterdam to the decease camps of Auschwitz and Sobibor successful Nazi-occupied Poland with the co-operation of section police, who were nether German control.

Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi designer of the deportations, applauded their success. He remarked astatine the time: 'From the opening . . . the trains from the Netherlands were truly rolling. It was wonderful.'

The fewer Jews successful the state to past were children, similar Rudie Cortissos, who were sent into hiding by their families. Others were rescued from an Amsterdam nursery wherever they awaited deportation. They were miraculously whisked to information (even smuggled retired successful laundry baskets) by the Dutch absorption question with the assistance of staff.

No wonderment that Holland's King Willem-Alexander this week decried the caller horrific events successful his country. Alluding to his country's relation successful the Holocaust, helium said: 'Jews indispensable consciousness harmless successful the Netherlands. Everywhere and astatine each times. We enactment our arms astir them, we volition not fto them go. History has taught america however intimidation goes from atrocious to worse.'

Nevertheless, Amsterdam – similar galore different cities successful occidental Europe – is present facing a heavy sectarian rift betwixt Jews and the Muslim assemblage that volition beryllium hard to mend. It has grown since the October 7 onslaught connected Israel arsenic pro-Palestinian protestors march the streets waving Hamas flags and different paraphernalia demanding the extremity of the Jewish state.

Dutch blimpish MP Kevin Kruger has watched the unit with a dense heart. 'There should beryllium much instrumentality and bid successful Amsterdam from present on,' helium told the Mail. 'The aforesaid rules should use to everyone who lives successful the city, immoderate their group, and that is not happening.'

He cites the illustration of a pro-Palestine protestation connected Wednesday nighttime which was, apparently, sanctioned by Amsterdam's Left-wing politician contempt a city-wide exigency prohibition connected each demonstrations pursuing the Maccabi team's visit. It resulted successful the Dutch nationalist paper De Telegraaf saying anarchy was live and good successful Holland. 'We person been tolerant for excessively long,' agreed Mr Kruger.

Annabel Nanninga, a wide blimpish Dutch politician, went further. She said connected Dutch TV: 'I americium appalled by what has happened. It is not close to spell connected a Jew hunt.

'The young men who were progressive are third, 4th procreation Islamic, Moroccan mostly, immigrants. They person inactive not integrated and accepted our mode of life. They person nary tolerance for Jews, women, gays, anyone but themselves.'

She besides warned that anti-Semitic hostility towards Jews had worsened since October 7. 'The Muslim attackers privation to person dominance connected the streets here. They privation america to beryllium terrified. Many Jews are present afraid.'

On Thursday nighttime this week, Israel shot fans returned to Europe, this clip for a shot lucifer successful Paris, arsenic the metropolis braced itself to spot if a replay of Amsterdam would happen.

Thousands of other information unit and anti-terror officers were deployed successful the French superior for the Nations League crippled betwixt France and Israel, arsenic a ringing of alloy was thrown astir the Stade de France.

Outside the stadium, constabulary surrounded pro-Palestinian protestors to support them isolated from Israel fans. Inside, during the match, fans wearing Israeli flags had a little skirmish with supporters of the French side.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau had refused to cancel the match, proclaiming that France would 'not springiness in' to those groups who 'sowed hate'.

It was a brave stance and occupation was held astatine bay connected this occasion. But however agelong tin this concern spell connected earlier Europe is changed irretrievably by the struggle betwixt Israel and Hamas-controlled Palestinians successful Gaza?

In London this week, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism cancelled a objection extracurricular London assemblage amid fears of 'Amsterdam-style violence'.

The Metropolitan Police said it was actively investigating threats posted online successful narration to the planned protestation astatine Queen Mary assemblage successful Mile End, East London, wherever UN peculiar rapporteur Francesca Albanese was speaking to students.

The UN authoritative has said provocatively that supporters of the panic radical Hamas person a 'right to resist' and that Israel is akin to Nazi Germany.

Police advised the protest's cancellation aft a station connected a residents' forum successful Tower Hamlets' borough, wherever determination is simply a ample Muslim population, warned that the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism were going to get the 'welcome they deserved'. One idiosyncratic of the forum suggested that it should beryllium successful 'Amsterdam-style'.

Back successful the Netherlands, Jewish assemblage person Robert Oudkerk, 69, told america however a drawstring of events person besides been cancelled successful Holland since the October 7 penetration successful what helium fears is 'an appeasement' of Jew-haters by the Dutch authorities.

A performer astatine a planned Yiddish jazz lawsuit received a telephone from a theatre manager saying: 'it was not imaginable close now.' A celebrated Jewish cookbook writer from Amsterdam readying to springiness lessons astatine a festival recovered his quality was nary longer required.

Mr Oudkerk's precocious parent Betty was a 17-year-old idiosyncratic astatine the Amsterdam nursery that saved Jewish children from the decease camps. She died successful 2020, the past subsister of the brave unit who had to take which kid to springiness the Dutch Resistance to rescue – and which to permission for the Nazis to deport and snuff out.

He says with certainty: 'People of assorted orientations and backgrounds each unrecorded unneurotic successful our Netherlands. I don't clasp each Muslims [there are an estimated 75,000 successful Holland] liable for what is happening here.

'But the bounds of our endurance is reached. Hunters chasing down the Maccabi fans shouted 'Cancer Jews' and demanded the implicit demolition of the Jewish state.

'These radical bash not respect my identity. They would alternatively person maine dead.'