It comes days after Israeli football fans were ambushed, kicked and beaten on the streets of the city by a pro-Palestine mob in an incident described by Geert Wilders, the Dutch hard-Right leader of the Freedom Party, as a “Jew hunt”.
Dutch police said they made five more arrests of those involved in the violence, which followed the Ajax vs Maccabi Tel Aviv football match on Thursday night.
Police made 63 arrests in connection with the clashes. The suspects were all men aged 18 to 37 and from Amsterdam or surrounding cities. Four are still in custody, while a fifth has been released but remains a suspect.
Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s mayor, described it as a “black night and a dark day” for the city as she announced emergency powers for police and banned all demonstrations.
Dick Schoof, the Dutch prime minister, condemned the “anti-Semitic attacks” and said “nothing can justify” violence against Jews.