Dutch Soccer Fans Chant ‘Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas’
During a match between Amsterdam’s Ajax team and FC Utrecht on Sunday, members of a Utrecht fanbase, known as the Bunnikside and often described as hooligans, began insulting the Amsterdam fans by calling them Jews, in reference to the city’s prominent Jewish population. As the Jewish Daily Forward reported:
During the match, dozens could be seen and heard chanting: “My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews cause Jews burn the best” and “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.” The chanting went on for several minutes, according to The Post Online news website.
FC Utrecht said they would look into the incident, and anti-discrimination activists called on Ajax to publicly condemn such anti-Semitism.
“When will Ajax players walk off the field?” Ronny Naftaniel, the executive director of a Jewish community organization, told the Forward.
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