(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - Rampant anti-Semitism is unacceptable, Pfemier Giorgia Meloni said Friday after attacks on Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans allegedly by Ajax supporters and others in Amsterdam Thursday night.
    "Rampant anti-Semitism is unacceptable and frightening and it is our duty to guarantee full security to citizens of the Jewish religion", Meloni said according to a note from her office at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.
    On the sidelines of the informal European Council in Budapest, the press release continued, Meloni "expressed deep concern to Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof over the attack suffered by Israeli fans in Amsterdam." Maccabi fans were targeted by men on scooters in what observers said recalled Jewish pogroms.
    The Maccabi fans allegedly earlier clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters, burned a Palestinian flag and torched a taxi, allegedly shouting anti-Arab slurs. (ANSA).