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February 22, 2019

Antisemitism pervades soccer in the Netherlands.ย  Chants like โ€œHamas, Hamas, Jews to the gasโ€ have entered the public domain.ย The Supreme Court has forbidden this chant, but it can still be heard at matches.ย A song about burning Jews was publicly sung in January 2019 by soccer fans in the streets of Leeuwarden, a Dutch provincial capital.ย Though Jews represent only 0.2% of the Dutch population, in 2017, out of all complaints about punishable discrimination which reached prosecution, 41% concerned antisemitism, and most of those were soccer antisemitism.ย  ย 

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