Anti-Semitic messages appeared on the Facebook page of a British soccer club shortly after it hired an Israeli player.
The authors of the anti-Semitic slurs used pejoratives. One comment asked how the team’s Moroccan Muslim midfielder could “live playing alongside a Jew.”
The messages have since been deleted.
A Queens Park Rangers spokesman issued a statement saying, “We are banning all posters who post anti-Semitic comments.”
Ben Haim plays for Israel’s national team. He also has played for several clubs in the English Premier League, including Chelsea, Manchester City and Portsmouth.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/14/3116741/anti-semitic-messages-target-israeli-soccer-player-in-uk#When:11:12:01Z
2 comments:
Why not trace the messages back to see where they came from, or would that lead to the local synagogue?
"would that lead to the local synagogue?"
Lots of them about too. If JTA quotes fro The Sun then it must be the truth and nothing but...
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