Dutch police arrest 22 at protest of Amsterdam Hanukkah concert featuring IDF cantor |
Dutch police said they arrested 22 people after clashes with protesters on Sunday outside an Amsterdam concert hall hosting a performance by the Israel Defense Forces’ official cantor.
The next morning, an anti-Israel group shared photos of red-paint graffiti on the walls of the concert hall, claiming credit for the vandalism and threatening other venues “considering platforming Zionists.”
Several hundred people gathered near the famous Concertgebouw hall on Sunday evening to protest a performance by Shai Abramson.
“The police intervened several times to keep the demonstrators at a distance and maintain public order,” the police said in a statement.
Footage circulating online showed the crowd chanting, and several demonstrators breaking through a barricade and clashing with police.
Signs shared on social media included inverted red triangles — a symbol used in Hamas propaganda to indicate a target — as well as comparisons of the Gaza war to the Holocaust, and celebration of the October 7 attack.
Het was een orgie van Jodenhaat, vandaag op het Museumplein en vlak voor de ingang van het #Concertgebouw, waar Holocaustoverlevenden werden uitgescholden voor nazi's. Met instemming van een tokkie in toga.
Dit is racisme, dit zijn de nieuwe nazi's, dit is het pure Kwaad. pic.twitter.com/Ho8DC9dQ4y
— Bart Schut (@bpschut) December 14, 2025
“October 7, 2023: The day indigenous people rose up against their occupier,” read one sign, referring to the Hamas-led terror onslaught — in which terrorists killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians,........