Antisemitic mural appears after Dutch soccer star signs with 'Jewish' team Ajax

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After a Dutch soccer star left his team to sign with its rival Ajax, a team with many fans that affectionately call themselves “Jews,” he was drawn into an antisemitic mural in Rotterdam.

The mural, which appeared after 29-year-old soccer player Steven Berghuis signed with Ajax on Monday, contained the text “Jews always run away” and included a portrait of Berghuis with an enlarged nose, a kippah and a concentration camp prison shirt with a yellow Jewish star of the kind Nazis forced Jews to wear.

Ajax’s fanbase has had a high percentage of Jews for decades, and fans often fly Israeli flags at matches. Fans of opposing teams have sometimes chanted antisemitic and otherwise offensive slogans at Ajax players and supporters.

Berghuis, who also plays for the Dutch national team, left Feyenoord to join Ajax. The two clubs are two of the country’s most storied franchises, and bitter rivals.

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Shhhh...don't tell that anti-Semitism is still thriving!

[madaboutharry]

1. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Not much of a surprise.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Sadly, this is true, especially in regards to anti-Semitism.

One would think, by now, people would actually start to take it more seriously, outside of the Jews and our few allies who already do.

[madaboutharry]

3. This is what gets me:

Anti -Semitism in places where there are no Jews, like Japan. What is that about? People being anti -Semitic and saying anti-Semitic things even though they have never even meet a Jewish person in their whole life.

So it all comes down to a need to hate.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. It is like that ALL over!

I am with you; I just don't get it! They literally hate people they have never even met.

Two countries, the United States (51%), and Israel (30%), including the West Bank (2%), account for 81% of those recognised as Jews or of sufficient Jewish ancestry to be eligible for citizenship in Israel under its Law of Return. France (3%), Canada (3%), Russia (3%), the United Kingdom (2%), Argentina (1%), Germany (1%), Ukraine (1%), Brazil (1%), Australia (1%) and Hungary (1%) hold an additional 16%, and the remaining 3% are spread around 98 other countries and territories with less than 0.5% each. With nearly 6.8 million Jews,[7] Israel is the only Jewish-majority and explicitly Jewish state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country

[madaboutharry]

5. I know.