Israel’s Manor Solomon is going to play for England’s most Jewish soccer club
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Fast Forward Tottenham Hotspur fans have long called themselves ‘Yids.’ This week, the British soccer team asked them to stop.
(JTA) — A British soccer team that had previously defended its fans’ self-designation as “yids” has for the first time asked they stop. Tottenham Hotspur, a prominent London team with a sizable Jewish fanbase and a reputation of being Jewish among fans of rival teams, made the request in a statement on its website Thursday….
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Fast Forward Iran Removes National Soccer Team Players For Competing Against Israelis
(JTA) — Iran reportedly has removed two players from its national soccer team after they competed against an Israeli team. Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei play for the Greek soccer club Panionios, which last week competed against Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv team in the Europa League’s third qualifying round second leg held in Greece. The…
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Opinion Unsportsmanlike Conduct: FIFA Ignores Its Rules In Israeli-Palestinian Soccer Dispute
The worlds of politics and football (soccer) clashed again. This time, the location was the Bahraini capital, Manama. The two sides of the conflict were the Palestinian Football Federation and the Israeli Football Federation. At stake in the conflict was a resolution submitted by the Palestinian federation demanding that six Israeli clubs based in exclusive…
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Breaking News Should Israeli Settlement Soccer Teams Move Inside the Green Line?
A human rights group urged soccer’s governing body, FIFA, on Monday to move matches being played by Israeli teams in the occupied West Bank to Israel, saying that playing in Jewish settlements meant they were playing on stolen land. The six clubs named by Human Rights Watch are all minor. But the dispute over their…
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