It is dry, grey and uneven, but to the boys of Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood clinging to a hill behind Jerusalem’s Old City, their pint-sized football pitch, with its cracked surface and simple goalposts, was a precious refuge. Then the cracks began to widen. Two months ago, the football coach and residents decided to close…
Hungarian soccer fans are reportedly being investigated for performing Nazi salutes during a match at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France. Black-shirted Hungary fans were captured making the salutes during their national team’s match with Iceland on Saturday in Marseille, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648911/Now-Ultra-fans-caught-doing-NAZI-salutes-Euro-2016-Hungarian-supporters-sick-gestures-match-saw-fans-battle-stewards-stands.html) “The pictures are clearly very shocking,” a police…
Soccer star Lionel Messi was slammed as “Jewish” and a “Zionist” by Egyptian officials after donating his soccer shoes to a charity in Egypt. Messi, who plays for the Barcelona Football Club, was interviewed last week on the Egyptian television program “Yes, I Am Famous” on the private network MBC Masr. “One of the things…
Bayern Munich apologized to anyone who saw Holocaust imagery in a graphic the German soccer club posted on Twitter. Replying to the original tweet hours after posting it Wednesday, Bayern said it had not meant to “hurt feelings” and was only trying to promote its match later that day against Juventus. The graphic shows train…
Two fans of the Southampton soccer club have been banned from attending English Premier League games for three years for making “fascist salutes” and “racist gestures” at Jewish fans during a recent match. Thomas Flynn, 22, and Michael Haydon, 23, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive and insulting behavior in a religiously-aggravated public order offense,…
Tunisian Jews called on their government to discipline the president of a soccer club who is accused of making an anti-Semitic slur against a Jewish referee. Last week, the Jewish Community of Tunisia, or CJT, published its call and condemnation of Lotfi Abdennadher, head of the main soccer club in the city of Sfax, on…
European soccer body UEFA has upheld its decision to deduct a point from Croatia’s Euro 2016 qualifying tally for a racist incident in June. “UEFA’s Appeals Body has upheld the decision to dock Croatia one point for racist behavior at their qualifying Group H game against Italy,” UEFA said on Friday. “The appeal by the…
The British press thinks it has come up with an explanation for Israel’s surprising draw with Wales in Euro 2016 soccer qualifier on Sunday night – witchcraft! “Call it witchcraft, call it voodoo, call it black magic,” wrote Richard Innes in the Daily Mirror. “Whatever it is, it clearly worked.” Israel’s Tal Ben Haim jinxing…
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