Israel’s Manor Solomon is going to play for England’s most Jewish soccer club
Manor Solomon is expected to join Tottenham Hotspur — a club controversially nicknamed the 'Yids'
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The top league in European soccer has a new 'King Solomon'
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Opinion English Soccer Kicks Off — Minus Israelis
The new English Premier League season will kick off on Saturday without a single Israeli on any of the top league’s 20 teams. It shouldn’t be seen as entirely out of the ordinary for a nation of Israel’s size and resources not to have any representatives in the Premier League. As Joshua Halickman, aka The…
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Opinion Soccer’s Fascists Attack Yid Army in Rome
The Drunken Ship pub in Rome was host to 30 Tottenham Hotspur fans, in town to watch their soccer team’s Europa League encounter with S.S. Lazio last Wednesday night. At approximately 1 a.m. Thursday, Lazio so-called ultras —extremist hooligan fans — turned up at the bar armed with stones, metal bars, and knuckle dusters and…
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Opinion ‘Yid Army’ in Crisis!
Fans of London’s Tottenham Hotspur soccer team have long referred to their club as the “Yid Army”, seizing and transforming a nasty pejorative into a peculiar badge of honour, as a way of pushing back against their abusers and detractors. Not the first time, however, this modern tradition is being called into question, with London’s…
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Breaking News British Soccer Team Faces Music Over ‘Yids’ Chant
London’s Tottenham Hotspur soccer team defended fans who call themselves “Yids,” saying they adopted the term as a defense against anti-Semitic taunting. The Society of Black Lawyers this week threatened to file a complaint with the Metropolitan police by Nov. 20 unless Tottenham Hotspur and the Football Association make greater efforts to end what they…
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