(JTA) — A soccer team in Rome that plastered a stadium with stickers showing Anne Frank wearing the uniform of a rival city club has been fined. The Lazio FC team will pay a fine of $61,000, but will not have to play two games without fans as requested by the Italian football federation prosecutor….
In the build-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2018, people will line up to say that we must never forget. But the world has long forgotten. In fact, the world never really remembered. Denial is not peripheral; it is rife. There is firstly outright denial, the received wisdom in many parts of…
PRISTINA, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Two Kosovo men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to planning attacks at a World Cup soccer match in Albania against the visiting Israel team last year. Kosovo police arrested 19 people in November 2016 on suspicion that they had links with the Islamic State militant group and were planning attacks in…
An anti-discrimination soccer network is investigating a Sudanese club after its supporters were seen holding a massive banner of Adolf Hitler and appearing to celebrate the Holocaust, the Mirror reported. FARE, an international network backed by major soccer institutions like FIFA, tweeted early Monday about the supporters of Al Hilal Omdurman, a major Sudanese team….
German police are investigating a series of fan-made stickers of Anne Frank dressed up as a soccer player, the Jewish News reported. The Holocaust victim is shown wearing the jersey of Schalke, the archrival of the alleged creators, who are fans of the Borussia Dortmund club. The stickers come after supporters of Lazio, an Italian…
(JTA) — Stickers showing a doctored photo of Anne Frank wearing a German soccer team’s jersey appeared in Dusseldorf, Germany, a week after a similar incident in Rome. The stickers show the teenage Holocaust diarist in a Schalke team jersey. It is believed that the stickers were created by the Borussia Dortmund soccer team, which…
As a portion of Anne Frank’s diary was read over the loudspeaker at an Italian soccer match Wednesday night, a number of fans chose to turn their backs to the field and sing the Italian anthem, Deadspin reported. The reading and a moment of silence at the game for S.S. Lazio had been planned to…
Announcers at soccer stadiums throughout Italy will read Anne Frank’s diary out loud after fans of one team used her image to mock their rivals. Supporters of Lazio, a club known for having far-right support, printed stickers depicting Frank wearing the jersey of their rival club Roma and messages such as “Roma fans are Jews.”…
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