Many of the perpetrators of the Amsterdam pogrom were ride-hailing drivers who used their ride-sharing apps to coordinate attacks against Jewish fans of the Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv who were visiting the Dutch capital, according to multiple reports.

The president of the Central Jewish Council, which is a group of Dutch Jewish organizations, Chanan Hertzberger, saying on Friday that the drivers, who were reportedly of Arab descent, used ride-sharing apps to plan the attacks and ensure “the harassed soccer fans had no way to get to safety” after the violence broke out.

“There even appears to be app traffic showing that they meticulously prepared this pogrom, because that’s what it was,” Hertzberger said. “They moved in groups, cornering their targets.”

Lizzy Savetsky, a pro-Israel activist based in New York, also aware an interview he did with a man he identified as president of the Maccabi World Union, who said that the attackers “used the Uber network… to organize, they created Uber WhatsApp groups and most of the attackers belonged to the Uber network. Uber drivers.”

“It was well organized, it went through the Uber network,” he added.

The London Times information Amsterdam authorities are working with services such as Uber to investigate claims on social media that taxi and ride-sharing drivers helped coordinate the violence.

Investigators are looking into whether the drivers helped the attackers target Israelis by searching for accounts with Israeli numbers on ride-sharing apps.

The support account for Uber saying In X, the company is “shocked to learn of this abhorrent violence.”

“Uber takes a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and, while there have been no reported incidents of violence or anti-Semitism on the Uber app, we actively support authorities as they work to identify offenders,” he added.

After a soccer match between the Israeli team and the Dutch team, Ajax, masked attackers ambushed Israeli fans. Videos shared The attackers, who appeared to be of Arab descent, were shown kicking and punching Israelis on social media. Others showed the attackers lighting fireworks and shooting them at their victims.

The attack left at least 30 Maccabi Tel Aviv fans injured and ten hospitalized. More than 62 people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, called The attack was an “explosion of anti-Semitism,” which occurred while commemorations of the 86th anniversary of Crystal Nightwhich took place on November 9, 1938 in Germany, Austria and parts of what is now the Czech Republic.

“Amsterdam remembers a black night and today remains a dark day. Yesterday and last night, anti-Semitic and hateful rioters and criminals attacked Jewish visitors to our city,” Ms. Halsema said at a news conference on Friday.

He also said the attackers were on “scooters driving around the city looking for Maccabi fans.” He was hit and run. “The football fans were attacked and then the rioters left again.”

Reports too indicated that the attackers searched for Israelis in the hotels where they were believed to be staying.

The King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, referring to how the Dutch notoriously handed over their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis during the German occupation, saying his nation “failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II and last night we failed again.”

Thursday’s violence comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands. The European Jewish Congress reported In November 2023 there was an 818 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.