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With its racist history, can a Jerusalem football team accept an Arab owner?
As Emirati sheikh buys shares in Beitar Jerusalem, the notorious club is confronting its racist ultra-fans in hopes of reviving its competitive edge.
By
Robert Swift
January 4, 2021
How Likud’s Ashkenazi elite became the patron saints of the Mizrahim
Benjamin Netanyahu and his Ashkenazi allies are exploiting Mizrahi resentment in order to delegitimize the current protests.
By
Orly Noy
August 3, 2020
Israel’s sports minister posts video with genocidal chants by fans
At the end of a Facebook video encouraging sportsmanlike conduct by fans from one of Israel’s most notoriously racist soccer clubs, those surrounding Miri Regev break out into chants of ‘burn your village,’ directed at the opposing team — from an Arab city in Israel. It’s not every day that a senior government minister, who a…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 23, 2018
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WATCH: Jerusalem soccer hooligans attack Arabs at shopping center
Last Monday, a mob of Beitar Jerusalem football fans rioted at the Malcha Shopping Center. Notorious for their racism, the fans’ chants often include “MAH-vet l’araVEEM” – death to Arabs; this can be heard in the amateur video below, starting from 2:36. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_dty1oSz4[/youtube] As Haaretz reports, hundreds of Beitar hooligans swarmed into the mall following a game at…
By
Lisa Goldman
March 23, 2012
Pro-Netanyahu daily ‘announces’ end of segregation in spoof
A group of artists have replaced the front page in hundreds of copies of the Israel Hayom daily paper. The new headline declared that the separation regime in occupied Hebron is ending. An anonymous group that identified itself only as “artists for Israel tomorrow” has distributed hundreds of copies of a “utopian” version of Israel Hayom…
By
Noam Sheizaf
February 22, 2012
Justice plays out in the Israeli soccer Premier League
The league’s most racist team is in deep trouble, and two of the league’s top scorers are Arab. What more could a guy ask for? Something very cool is happening in the Israeli Premier League. First of all, two of the league’s top scorers are Arab. As of today, Ahmed Saba, who plays for Maccabi…
By
Ami Kaufman
February 8, 2012
Left-wing U.S. Jew buys Israeli soccer’s bastion of the right
A California Jew, who sits on the board of directors of the Israel Policy Forum, buys the most famous team in Israel, Beitar Jerusalem. Hopefully, he’ll do better in soccer than he did in politics… Running for office with the slogan “Send a mentsch to Congress”? I mean, come on… Could this be the making…
By
Ami Kaufman
July 14, 2011
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