Anti-Semitism in football

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Anti-Semitism or anti-Judaism in football, as a fixed element of right-wing extremist ideologies , is a widespread phenomenon, occurring in parts of the football fan scene at clubs in the lower leagues and expresses itself, during the game and in the vicinity, by means of racist , neo-Nazi slogans on banners, in chants and in physical attacks against the people involved in the event.

Anti-Semitism in German football

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Anti-Semitism in German football, which manifests itself in a wide variety of forms, is the foundation of an inglorious tradition in this sport that has existed since the 1980s and which is often allegedly dependent on the political action of the State of Israel. The Hamburg sports and political scientist Florian Schubert notes on this point that not only neo-Nazis would bring anti-Semitism from outside into the stadium environment, but rather anti-Jewish slogans and everyday racism have existed for a long time and so “young people internalize these slogans in the stadium and return them into society, for example to schools ”.

An example of anti-Semitism in German football is the TuS Makkabi Berlin , a Jewish-German amateur club, which in the past has increasingly fallen victim to racist and anti-Semitic hostility. The club's players were exposed to insults and threats during a game in the district league B against VSR Altglienicke in 2006, which culminated in verbal statements like “we are gassing you” and “we are building a subway to Auschwitz”. Intervening with the referee in charge of the game did not lead to the desired success of reprimanding the opposing spectators. Later, threatened physical violence after the game could be prevented. For singing the song We are building a subway to Auschwitz , two Borussia Dortmund supporters were convicted of sedition by the Hamm Higher Regional Court in February 2016 . It goes back to the “U-Bahn” song of the right-wing rock band Kommando Freisler .

Another problem are anti-Semitic, anti-Western, anti-liberal and anti-Gypsy-oriented so-called “tendency associations”, some of which are deliberately founded as preliminary organizations from other groups in order to bind young migrants through competitions on the football field. Social, ethnic and global political conflicts are increasingly being fought on the football field.

As a result of this and other incidents and the insight that active countermeasures are required in order to curb the anti-Semitism that exists in some areas around football, a variety of measures have been initiated. For example, a project of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , the German Football Association and the German Sports Youth to combat racism and discrimination was launched at the federal level under the motto “Stay on the ball” . In addition, there are various regional events as well as cooperation with affected clubs, teams and players. In this context, the clubs FSV Frankfurt and Makkabi Frankfurt initiated a themed evening entitled “Anti-Semitism in Football” to discuss current problems and find a solution.

Anti-Semitism in Austrian football

1909 was based in Vienna of the Zionist club SC Hakoah Vienna which, although to a successful team, but often quickly became victims of anti-Semitic hostility in the following period. After Austria's annexation (1938), non-Aryan elements were removed from football, player contracts were terminated, and clubs were renamed or dissolved. The SC Hakoah was also smashed, its assets confiscated and the results of the current championship canceled. While many players were able to flee abroad, the rest of them died in the National Socialist concentration camps .

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After the end of the Second World War, great patriotism sprouted again in Austria , which in the following decades and as a result of the numerous defeats between Austrian teams and German teams led to a downright anti-Germanism. However, there are still anti-Semitic riots in the games of Austrian Bundesliga clubs.

Backlash

  • Since 2004, Hertha BSC has been supporting the victims of racist and anti-Semitic attacks in football with the campaign "! Never again - Remembrance Day in German Football".
  • The fan community of the Ajax Amsterdam association avows itself to be Jews as a defense against anti-Semitic tendencies in the fan communities of other clubs without any ethnic or religious reference to Judaism.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ronny Blaschke : Anti-Semitism in football. Clichés in the curve. Deutschlandradio Kultur, January 18, 2015, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ronny Blaschke : hatred of Jews in football. Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 19, 2015, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Nadja Müntsch: Anti-Semitism in football. A visit to TUS Makkabi Berlin. Federal Agency for Civic Education, January 17, 2007, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Peter Ahrens: Anti-Semitism in football. Mild punishment for hatred of Jews. Spiegel Online, December 12, 2006, accessed April 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Thorsten Gerald Schneiders: Incitement of the people in football: BVB fans sentenced to a fine for "Auschwitz" song , Deutschlandfunk , February 3, 2016
  6. ↑ Stefan Behr: Punishment for “U-Bahn to Auschwitz” , Frankfurter Rundschau , August 13, 2014
  7. ↑ Andreas Speit : Anti-Semitic football fans: A question of hate speech , taz, January 10, 2017
  8. ↑ Mona Jaeger: Violence in amateur football: Ein Böser Kreis , faz.net , November 20, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ DFB: DFB and federal government start project against racism. DFB, July 3, 2007, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  10. ^ Morten Freidel: Anti-Semitism in football. The hatred is always available. FAZ, February 9, 2015, accessed April 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Hertha BSC :! Never again - remembrance day in German football. Hertha BSC, January 27, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Tobias Müller: Football in Holland: Stars of David as aerial bombs. Zeit Online, March 22, 2011, accessed April 20, 2017 .