Footballer Denies Gesture Anti-Semitic, but...

Arutz Sheva ^ | 29/12/13

[Eleutheria5]

French footballer Nicolas Anelka denied, Sunday, that a gesture he made during a Saturday match was Anti-Semitic, according to Agence France Presse. Using the Twitter social Website, Anelka argued in his tweets that the gesture - in which he thrust his straightened right arm downwards while tapping his bicep with the other hand - was merely "anti-establishment". adding, "I don't know what religion has to do with it. Of course I'm not an anti-Semite or racist and (I) stand by my gesture."

Anelka did assert that the gesture was a dedication to French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala who has made overtly anti-Jewish remarks in public for years and has been fined seven times for defamation, insult and provocation to hate, and for racial discrimination. Anelka, a 2004 convert to Islam, could face match suspensions if...

[dfwgator]

This is former Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio, a self-confessed "Fascist".

He actually was the coach at Sunderland last season and part of this season before he was fired after Sunderland's slow start.

[GOPJ]

Of all totalitarian groups the world has ever created I believe fascists were the most evil. Why any human would want to be identified with them in any capacity is beyond me...