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Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012
Eldad Beck
Published: 08.08.10, 13:52
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1. Shut them down
richhistory ,   Israel   (08.08.10)
If these Nazi's continue, FIFA must shut football down until the perpetrators submit a written statement denouncing anti-Semetism and even doing something positive to recognize the Jewish Polish history. Harsh response or no football. Period.
2. Evil
Aviva ,   Israel.   (08.08.10)
Hashem has a plan for all evil.
3. similarities
dan ,   jerusalem,il   (08.08.10)
It remind me of something...ah,fans of a famous team in Jerusalem.
4. yeah? and what about Israeli football fans?
Missy   (08.08.10)
they are known to be vehemently racist, but I guess that's alright by you, talkbacker #1.
5. Why ?
Johnny ,   Nazareth   (08.08.10)
The polish people are the nation who suffered the most from the Nazism!! It appears that these lowlife pricks don't know nothing about history!! The Nazis had sent to concentration camps and killed the most educated professors of the University of Warsaw after the bombardments and the conquer of Poland. The Polish Pope, who was a great man, Giovanni Paolo II had fought severely the growing anti-semitism in Poland. These people grow up ignoring their history,manipulated by the anti Israeli propaganda that being conducted in Europe.
6. Same situation in eastern Germany
Richard ,   Leipzig, Germany   (08.08.10)
8. #1 Why? Just because they are expressing them selves?
Peter ,   Vienna-Austria   (08.08.10)
They have every right to express themselves. Even if it doesn't suit you and your buddies in israel. If you don't like it,avoid it. Simple as that.
9. #1 richhistory ignorance
Fredrik-C ,   Europe   (08.08.10)
richhistory your comment proves you either ignorant or anti-football, possibly both. First of all its not FIFA but UEFA to organize the European Championship, so much for ignorance. Second, Europe has like 750 million citizens a huge part of them football fans. richhistory are you serious saying to shut down the tournament just because of some 150 stupid neo-nazis? richhistory, please, next time you post a talkback, think twice, then post.
10. Is it because of the "occupation"?
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (08.08.10)
11. The irony of it: Nazis regarded Poles as sub-humans too
Schreiber   (08.08.10)
Nazis regarded Poles and other Slavs as sub-humans, and therefore subject to slavery. While the Jews were to be systematically murdered, the Slavs were considered one step above and would live to be used as slave labor. Polish neo-Nazism is absurd. They display desperate and pathetic attempts to identify with what they regard as the superior race. In fact, Germans were always Poland's enemies, while Jews never represented any threat. Arab sympathy with the Nazis has been utterly mistaken as well, because had the Nazis won the war, the Arabs too would have been enslaved. But then, anti-Semitism is a mental disease and no amount of reason will do any good. There is no pill to cure it so It has to be fought back the hard way.
12. #8 Why??? you open you mouth again
Israeli ,   U.S.A / Israel   (08.08.10)
Peter I thought you taking a break you remarks was antisemitic, Peter are you one of them , witch party you cheering on nobody want to hear from you . You hatred toward Israel and the Jewish ,please read some books before you open you mouth ..
13. WELL, WELL, WELL, WHAT A SURPRISE!
SETTHERECORDSTRAIGHT   (08.08.10)
FROM POLAND? NAH, Y'DON'T SAY! REALLY?
14. Why do we have to care about what you think?
Peter ,   Vienna-Austria   (08.08.10)
You have your own country and please tell your people living in Europe to leave once and for all to avoid having their feelings hurt.
15. These are not a soccer fans!
Greg ,   Gdynia, Poland   (08.08.10)
First of all the polish football is piss poor. Every regular man here know that this is really not a football but pitful circus. Decision about Euro 2012 in Poland was a stupid joke. Second, these bandits have nothing of the football (or any other sport) fan. They are just criminals, riff-raff, bandits aside regular people. Football is just a excuse. They fight each other They hate everybody - jews, red-heads, police, weak people, strong people, neighbors etc. It's not about ani-semitism - it's about hate of any people and stupidity. Just punishments for these should be stronger.
16. to #3, thanks
Palestinian   (08.08.10)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3808080,00.html
17. Polish - pure hate
Jason Alster ,   Zichron Yacov , Isra   (08.08.10)
With all the dangers in the world and on her borders , Israel needs to evaluate giving up any more land for a peace that isn't ever coming.
18. "Poles were just as much victims of the Nazis as Jews"
Tahl ,   Ashdod   (08.08.10)
is a popular knee-jerk response by Poles, every time the issue of Polish antisemitism comes up - in order to nullify the argument that Poles can be antisemitic and persecute Jews, since both peoples were supposedly "equal victims" of the Nazis in WWII, and that the 3 million deqd Polish Jews were the sole blame of the Nazis. Some Poles even go as far as blaming Jews for "anti-Polonism" and exploiting the memory of the Holocaust for achieving political and economic gains in the present. The shocking incidents described in this report (as well as countless others over the years, which are not mentioned here) clearly prove that the Nazis have had some very cooperative collaborators in Poland, who were more than happy to help the Nazis' "final solution" effort of exterminating the Jews. And while it is true that many Poles have risked their lives hiding Jews during the Holocaust, and while their late president was a true friend of Israel, and while I have personally met some very nice Poles who are very distant from such grotesque antisemitism and racism (and I believe these are the sane majority of Poles) - one still cannot overlook or belittle the overwhelming presence of blatant antisemitism in Poland today, which is effectively represent by the incidents reported here. And it is all the more shocking, given the fact that there are virtually NO JEWS in Poland today! For Poland's own sake, it is time for it to internalize the age-old litmus-test for a country's success and prosperity, versus ending up in the dustbin of history: it is the country's tolerance toward Jews.
19. to #8 you know the states who got almost no
ghostq   (08.08.10)
jews population r the most anti semitic states around, seams like they hate people they never meet, but hating jews won't improve their situation, they r just a bunch of losers with no jobs, that's the reality, expresing themselves is one thing self destruct is another.
20. The Polish Church bears some of the blame
Schreiber   (08.08.10)
It continues to feed anti-Semitism from its pulpit, radio programs and other media. Some of the most outrageous anti-Semitic statements have been made by top ranking Catholic church clergy.
21. 14 - ill tell you peter why
israeli ,   israel   (08.08.10)
you sound like an american that whants the blacks out. the reason there are jews in europe is the roman empire. it was you europeans that have exiled us from our land and spread us around the world. and it was austrians that have joined the germans in trying to finish us off. but we have a very long memory and very long range missiles. so watch your words.
22. #21 Israeli ,Israel #14
Israeli ,   U.S.A / Israel   (08.08.10)
Thank you Israeli you said that very well , Our memory it is very long but our missiles long range all the time they hit the target . I wondering if it is a Israel 1939 never cold happen to our people , my still have my family around me ... Israeli U.S.A/Israel.
23. Germans murdered 3 million Poles in WWII
Joe ,   Los Angeles   (08.08.10)
But still there Polish people who collaborated with Nazis and joined the SS. Some Poles considered USSR more a threat and actually identified with Nazi ideology. Finland also sided with the Nazis only because they were also an enemy of the USSR.
24. #8
David ,   West Palm Beach, FL,   (08.08.10)
So I supposed that if I called you Nazi scum, you would be okay with that? After all, it would be freedom of expression. It's always easier to accept bigotry when it's not directed against you. When it is, it's a different matter altogether, isn't it?
25. Well ,...
split ,   usa   (08.08.10)
you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink , stupid Look at yourself ,...
26. So much for changed Poland.
leo ,   usa   (08.08.10)
27. peter , what would you be without Jews ?
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (08.08.10)
You would still live in the middle ages . You hate Jews and Israel , but without Jews no Blood transfusions , no Penicillin [ A Jew found the way to produce ] , no vitamins , no Salzburger festival , no pill for your wife , no Freud , Einstein , Mahler , no space , no computers , nothing . And don't forget : Hundertwasser , also a Jew .
28. it is not the duty of jews to fight antisemitism
mira ,   israel   (08.08.10)
its the duty of non jews. it will be they who will loss at the end.
29. Globalization of Nazism
random german ,   ger   (08.08.10)
While it never was really a surprise to me, that Nazis (and Nazi-Muslims, that's new) keep doing their things in Ger until this very day, I always wondered, how on earth people living in areas which the Nazis actually devastated with their incasion can possibly be a fanatic of Nazism. What went wrong with them? Don't they know that their Grandpas were regarded as second-class citizens at best, only getting the chance to join certain elite units by the time when things went awfully bad and every single person was needed? Doesn't that thought bother those people, that their races were regarded as inferior? @Peter: Your fellow austrian hero wasn't racially superior, not at all :-)
30. THANKS PETER
LARRY ,   US ARMY RETIRED   (08.08.10)
YOU ARE A TOOL THAT IS GIVING THE YOUNG ISRAELI WHO READS YOUR VIEWS THE KNOWLEGE OF THE PAST A REMINDER OF WHY ISRAEL MUST BE THE LION WHO KEEPS ITS TEETH SHARP HIS AND BODY STRONG. TO DEVESTATE ITS ATTACKER. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB MY LITTLE FOOL. I WOULD TELL YOU TO YOUR FACE AS I HAVE TO A FEW WANT TO BE NAZI CO WORKERS IN MY PAST .AND THEY HATED THE HUMILIATION . OF SHUTTING THERE MOUTH IN FRONT OF MY PRESENCE FOR THEY KNEW IF THEY CROSSED THE BRIDGE THEY WOULD PAY THE PRICE WITH A DISFIGURED FACE TO SHOW THERE WIFES.
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