Posted on 11/12/2024 5:28:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Asoccer team in Germany was reportedly threatened with knives and sticks a few days after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam were attacked.
The two incidents, not even a week apart, have both been described as antisemitic attacks.
According to reports in the local German news outlet Tagesspiegel, there were alleged attacks on the Jewish under-17 soccer players of the Makkabi Berlin football team.
It was reported that the incident occurred at the grounds of the soccer team DJK Schwarz-Weiß Neukölln following a match between the two teams.
A sign reading "Clubhaus Makkabi Berlin" can be seen at the Julius Hirsch sports facility. State security is investigating suspected anti-Semitic abuse and threats against Jewish youth footballers in Berlin. Markus Lenhardt/dpa via AP Alongside reports of threats with knives, it was also alleged that an unknown group insulted the Makkabi players, reportedly making antisemitic statements.
The incident is now reportedly being investigated by state security, and it was reported on Sunday that the police were looking into concerns of a breach of the peace, incitement to hatred and insult ex officio.
Tagesspiegel also wrote that the German Press Agency reported the Berlin Makkabi club was protected by the police at the weekend during its games.
Newsweek has contacted the Berlin police and the Makkabi Berlin football team via email for comment on the alleged attacks.
Alon Meyer, the president of Makkabi Germany, reportedly told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that witnesses confirmed "threats, including chasing people with knives, undoubtedly took place," the Jerusalem Post reported.
After the incident, one social media user, Shlomo Afanasev, who appears to be the father of one of the Berlin players, wrote that his 13-year-old son had been caught up in the incident while playing for the Makkabi team.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
War with Islam. We all know it’s in the future. Now what?
What’s the one word missing from this Newsweek story? What could it be? Oh, I know:
ISLAM
That’s just a distraction. The real war is with the left.
The “progressives” also are antisemitic.
Future?
Let’s get the wokeness never trumpers out of the Voice of America and Radio Marti
Correct.
I’m fed up with the mohammedan rage folks.
Israel plays in the European rather than the Asian division to avoid playing the Muslim countries.
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