Druze Israeli Outwits Muslim Attackers, Saving Maccabi Soccer Fans From Mob

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Melhem Asad, a resident of the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei and a fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team, told Channel 12 news how he yelled in Arabic at a group of Muslim hooligans in Amsterdam to prevent them from attacking Jewish fans of the team.

According to Asad, Maccabi fans were escorted by police to the match against Ajax due to anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrations but after the game “the local police just screwed up.”

“They didn’t guard us, we felt really exposed,” he says.

Asad says that he had nearly made it safely back to his hotel after the brutal attacks started when he encountered a group of Arabic-speaking suspects planning to assault Maccabi fans.

“I told them that no Jews are still here, that they escaped. I did everything to confuse them… I directed them the other way and then ran toward groups of Israelis and warned them that there are immigrants who are looking to hurt them,” he tells the network, explaining that he went around bars and restaurants he told his fellow Maccabi supporters to take off their blue and yellow jerseys so they couldn’t be identified.

Asad says the violence reminded him of Hamas’s October 7 onslaught last year.

“I feel that God sent me at the right time and to the place to save whoever was possible,” he adds.

A Dutch journalist also sheltered some Israelis seeking refuge from the Muslim attackers. She spoke about her efforts on Israel’s Channel 14, stating that “The situation here won’t improve- it will only get worse.”