{"id":824874,"date":"2026-03-14T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/824874\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:34:12","slug":"deliberate-attack-explosion-damages-jewish-school-in-amsterdam-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/824874\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deliberate attack\u2019: explosion damages Jewish school in Amsterdam | Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city\u2019s mayor described as \u201ca deliberate attack against the Jewish community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The explosion at the school in an upmarket residential neighbourhood on the south side of Amsterdam only caused limited damage, the mayor, Femke Halsema, said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Security at synagogues and Jewish institutions in the Dutch capital had already been heightened after an overnight arson attack at a synagogue in the centre of Rotterdam on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In neighbouring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/belgium\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belgium<\/a>, an explosion caused a fire at a synagogue in Liege on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis is a cowardly act of aggression against the Jewish community,\u201d Halsema said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cJewish people in Amsterdam are increasingly confronted with antisemitism. This is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Concerns about possible attacks against Jewish communities around the world have risen following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US and Israeli attacks on Iran<\/a> and a subsequent response from Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city\u2019s mayor described as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-824874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116226612598500717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}