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Topic: Beitar Jerusalem

May 28, 2013
8:47 pm

Damage at the office of Beitar Jerusalem soccer club which was set on fire when by a Molotov cocktail was thrown into his office early this morning. February 08, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Two soccer fans convicted over racist arson attack

Beitar Jerusalem ultras torched their own team’s training center after it signed Muslim players

By Stuart Winer

May 23, 2013
10:38 pm

Adam Green with fellow British fans of the English soccer club Chelsea on their way to a match in Amsterdam, May 15, 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Kicking racism out of soccer proves a tough goal

England claims to be a world leader and is giving Israeli activists some training, but it has yet to eliminate anti-Semitism among its own supporters

By Cnaan Liphshiz

May 1, 2013
10:15 am

Passionate Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem fans at a game earlier this season (photo credit: Guy Yitzhaki, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem's website; katamon.co.il)

The little fan-owned, anti-racist soccer team that could

Established six years ago, few thought it would last a season. But with a bit of luck on Friday, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem will enter Israel’s pro leagues

By Mark Weiss

February 19, 2013
5:11 pm

Police bring two suspects arrested for arson at the Beitar Jerusalem football team's office to the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on February 19, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Two arrested for torching Beitar Jerusalem offices

Racial tensions have been running high since the soccer club signed two Muslim players in January

By Asher Zeiger

February 13, 2013
2:36 am

A hooded Beitar Jerusalem fan seen outside the Teddy stadium in Jerusalem ahead of a match on Sunday, February 10 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police arrest 7 for Beitar clubhouse torching

Suspects belong to a group of hardcore fans of the Jerusalem soccer club known as La Familia

By Ron Friedman

February 10, 2013
8:54 pm

Beitar fans at Teddy Stadium Sunday night. (Screenshot: Sport 1)

70 fans kicked out but no major incidents at Beitar match

Amid tight security, and to lots of booing, Chechen Muslim Gabriel Kadiev takes the field for Jerusalem team stained by racism

By Gabe Fisher and Adiv Sterman

February 10, 2013
3:08 pm

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman at the fore

Former foreign minister comes out swinging, and tells the Israeli press that Yair Lapid isn’t taking his ministry

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 10, 2013
9:15 am

Fans of Beitar Jerusalem protest the decision to sign two Chechen Muslim players during training session in Jerusalem, on February 1, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid tight security, Beitar to play Arab team in Jerusalem

‘We need to take this criminal activity, even terrorism, against the team seriously,’ says Jerusalem mayor following clubhouse torching

By Gabe Fisher and Times of Israel staff

February 9, 2013
2:57 am

Former Chechen rebel and current head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Head of Chechnya to attend Beitar’s soccer game Sunday

Leader of Russian republic reportedly coming in light of fans’ racist outrage over club’s signing of two Muslim Chechen players

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

February 8, 2013
8:43 am

Members of the Beitar Jeursalem soccer club inspect the team's administrative offices after unknown arsonists set it on fire. (photo credit: Flash90)

Arsonists set fire to Beitar Jerusalem’s offices

Trophies, memorabilia destroyed; soccer club officials blame extremist fans, angry over signing of two Muslim players in January

By Yoel Goldman

February 7, 2013
10:03 pm

Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium, on Tuesday, Jan. 29 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar fans charged over racist chants as cops vow to crack down

Police announce operation to penetrate an extremist cell within the Jerusalem soccer club’s faithful

By Philip Podolsky

February 6, 2013
6:19 pm

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' on Saturday, Jan 26 (photo credit: Flash90)

AG pledges to eradicate racism from sports fields

Two Chechen soccer players at the center of recent Beitar Jerusalem controversy to be treated to visits from moms

By Adiv Sterman

January 31, 2013
1:46 am

Beitar Jerusalem head coach Eli Cohen, center, flanked by Gabriel Kadiev, left, and Zaur Sadayev at a press conference last month (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem signs first Muslim players

In wake of racist display by some fans, Mayor Nir Barkat says signing is ‘an ethical statement that goes out from Jerusalem to the world’

By Ron Friedman

January 30, 2013
3:09 am

Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium, on Tuesday, Jan. 29 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Buoyed by score, daunted by fines, Beitar faithful play nice

Jerusalem team’s soccer fans defy the grim expectations and refrain from racist rhetoric as the players club Maccabi Umm al-Fahm on the pitch

By Mitch Ginsburg

January 29, 2013
2:54 pm

Beitar Jerusalem fans at a game in 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar to play Arab team in front of fans after all

Police afraid soccer match will devolve into violence; Ehud Olmert withdraws support from Jerusalem team, denounces ‘ignorant vulgarity’ of fans

By Gabe Fisher

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