The Football Community is a Facebook page that describes itself as “the best community of football fans in the world.” With 1.3 million followers, it is certainly one of the largest.
A few days ago, the page published the below post regarding the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a Europa League match in England next month:
Not surprisingly, this blatantly antisemitic post has attracted more of the same in the comments
although some commenters (mostly Israelis, mind you) have taken exception to the post.
But here’s the thing. This kind of thing – antisemitism being propagated on supposedly non-political websites and by social media accounts – has become so casual and commonplace, festering in spaces that should unite people, not divide them. I guess normalized is the more appropriate word.
It is also yet another example of the “anti-Zionist-not-antisemite” phenomenom. These haters can deny it all they want, but invariably their hatred of all things Israel stem from their hatred of Jews.
