Fans of a Bosnian soccer team chanted anti-Semitic epithets in Vienna prior to a match with the Bosnia-Herzegovina team.
The some 50 fans wearing team colors were seen in a video on YouTube among several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a central city plaza during a Tuesday protest, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on Friday.
The fans chanted “Kill, kill the Jews,” the newspaper reported.
Australian police are investigating the incident, according to Der Standard.
Jeffrey Wendt White Muslims, they had the upper hand over their Christian and Jewish Bosnian neighbors under the Ottoman Empire. That lasted for over four centuries.
Steven Ben-Off Abrams I was just watching “Dracula Untold” and although it’s schlocky, the non-supernatural part of the plot is concerned with the taking of Christian children as slave Janissaries by the Ottoman rulers.
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Alex Trivunovic I’ve spent years telling americands this, especially jews. Unfortunately the muslims-as-victims narrative is too ingrained. Especially about bosnia.
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Chaim Amalek Let’s put this in perspective. 1. This was a group of just a few dozen men out of perhaps 1.7 million in Vienna at the time. 2. While they may have been calling for the deaths of Jews, it was not in English or, so far as I can tell, even in German. 3. Just words. Contrast their words to the murderous in fact acts of the Crusaders a thousand years ago. Many a Jew was murdered by the Crusading Christian knights of Europe. Which is worse? 4. Why would you expect a Bosnian Muslim to be pro-Israel or pro-Jew? 500 or so years of Ottoman rule had their impact. 5. At least they did not throw any bananas at anyone.
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Alex Trivunovic It was nice of Israel to be on the Serbian side during the war though. It was appreciated.
