Monkey Trial: On the Circuit of the Association Prosecutor's Court
The pursuit of Maccabi Tel Aviv in calls to Danny Amos caused the association's prosecutor Nir Reshef to increase the slope of the slippery slope he created, and to prosecute calls that do not violate the regulations.
The result is a demonstration of petty and bizarre discussions that embarrass everyone and especially him
David Rosenthal
28/04/2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 3:00 p.m.
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Last Saturday, I attended the Shlomo Insurance Stadium, in a game between Maccabi Petah Tikva and Hapoel Nof Hagalil.
From the moment the hostess fell behind, a significant group of fans began to sing "Avi Luzon is dead."
This mantra has been around on the pitches for more than 15 years, since the beginning of Luzon's tenure as chairman of the Football Association.
Is it a call for violence? Mention "fact" / "opinion" or the devil knows what to call this disgusting statement. One
way or another, Maccabi Petah Tikva was not prosecuted for these calls. A paradoxical situation in which the cursers win twice - both making their repulsive voice and imposing a fine on the hated Luzon. And even if we took this into account, a simple question arises:
Association prosecutor Nir Reshef has ruled that "Avi Luzon is dead" is not a sufficient criterion to prosecute.
There is a chance beyond probable that they were not brought to his attention at all.
In any case, definitely his right.
He did decide that "Abu Fani from ... sheep" is such an offensive call that an entire club should be brought to the court to explain it.
This too is his right, but what are the semantic differences, if any, between the readings?
Each and his interpretation.
The bottom line is that Reshef is probably very attentive to the voices emanating from Gate 11, whether it is "gay" or whether it is "from ... sheep."
What is the criterion for prosecution?
He also does not know how to explain this.
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In almost every game, Maccabi Petah Tikva fans sing "Avi Luzon is dead."
Is this not a call for violence? (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
In the classic movie "The Monkey Trial," based on a real-life case in 1925, prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady is motivated to convict teacher John Scopes for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of Tennessee state law.
Brady goes out of his way to finally get the conviction, but the media circus, which intensified as the trial progressed and culminated with the verdict, along with the very symbolic punishment Scopes receives, sterilizes the plaintiff's achievement of meaning and turns it into ridicule and defeat and victory into defeat.
Reshef was feverish about Danny Amos and the "gay" chants.
Twice his position was rejected, and he took Maccabi Tel Aviv to a third hearing in which he won.
A fine of NIS 3,000 was finally imposed on the Yellows, an amount that was clear to all that it was nothing more than a silence fee to wave the situation.
Not to be misunderstood, Amos's struggle is important and brave, but the way this "victory" was achieved is not only ridiculous, it also diminishes Amos' own position and worst of all - it is dangerous because it has created an outline where groups can be convicted for non-calls Prohibited under the regulations.
As expected, it did not take too long for Reshef to pave a sharper slope to the slippery slope it created.
The summonses of Yoav Ziv (for the first time in the history of the State of Israel, a man faced Dayan after writing the literature "6" and "2" on a page) and of Maccabi Tel Aviv due to the calls to Abu Fani are a product of the "success" of a busy discussion.
The prosecutor saw that he could reach a conviction, even on a symbolic level, and decided to release the guard.
In the photo: A man is on trial for writing the digits "6" and "2"
There is no point in entering into a discussion as to whether this is a specific persecution of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The plaintiff goes to media cases and rides on the populism that his compass of righteousness carries him to.
Retired referee Amnon Strashnov, who opposed the club's conviction in the Amos case, put it well: "Curses, insults and insults have become a breakthrough vision on our pitches - in Israel as well as abroad, and it is difficult to impossible to prevent them.
I also have a hard time seeing how to put the line between allowed and forbidden calls, as opposed to racist calls and the mention of the Holocaust, as expressed in the disciplinary regulations. "
Not only Strashnov has a hard time. Adv. : "Every game has cries and songs that encourage violence. Whether it is a policeman dying a threat or pushing a policeman to the tracks or a player is dead ... All the cries are inappropriate, but the question is whether every fan call will bring us to court?"
If we are talking about sheep, Maccabi Tel Aviv is not an innocent Xia.
A small tribute to Abu Fani (there is another meeting between the groups, a bouquet of flowers does not cost much) would close the story and send a decisive message to fans who sang the repulsive song, but the chants, as long as they are not enshrined in the rules, should not send the club to a bizarre court hearing.
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So after the NIS 3,000 of the calls to Amos, Yoav Ziv received a fine of NIS 500.
As of this writing, the verdict has not yet been handed down regarding the calls to Abu Fani, and I guess it will be another ridiculous fine.
The impression created is that the tribunal is simply looking to take off the troubles of Reshef, in a segment of "come on, here are financial sanctions, just let us."
After all, if a factor or group is acquitted, the plaintiff will take them to higher courts, until he wins and is free to look for the next curse that does not sound good to him.
Next groups will be prosecuted for chants like "Dumb" and "Son of Belial" and will finally get a radius for one fan comment after "Forgive me, in the motto of you, sit down, you are hiding me".
This is how it will be conducted, until the courtier under the management of Adv. Reshef educates KVLM.
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