You made a promise and therefore you will keep it: Beitar Jerusalem will fight the behavior of the crowd?

In the past, Barak Abramov, the owner of Beitar Jerusalem, announced that he would fight racism "to the end". The attack by his fans on Ramzi Spuri at the beginning of the week is a wonderful opportunity to start this important struggle

Maor Zakaria

03/09/2022

Saturday, September 3, 2022, 12:00

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Barak Abramov at his first press conference as owner of Beitar Jerusalem (photo: Shlomi Gabbai; video editing: Aviad Belili)

In November 2017, Bnei Yehuda went to an away game in Kiryat Shmona.

Ahmed Abed scored for the locals and immediately ran to taunt the visiting crowd, who were not obliged and answered him with full-on curses.

A short time later it was already possible to read all over the web how the owner of Bnei Yehuda, Barak Abramov, condemns the racist chants that were allegedly there.

"I will fight racism to the end, I don't intend to surrender," the human rights knight and sushi later announced to everyone who wanted to hear, and as usual in events of this type, it was everyone.

Of course, the league director, the body that benefited for an entire season from the sponsor Abramov's money, "gathered", because racism is bad for the brand, and "bad" is exactly the opposite of headlines about a "war" on racism.

How did Abramov fight racism "to the end"?

It is not clear.

Here he tried to close the stands, there was a fight with the fans, in the end everyone forgot about it, but the main thing is that he got the headlines.

Almost five years have passed since then, a lot of water has gone down the drain, plastic-flavored teriyaki has been spilled without recognition, and many unfortunates have made combinations with digital currencies, and here is a very similar case: in

August 2022, Beitar Jerusalem hosted Hapoel B.S.

Ramsey Spurry scored for the visitors and immediately ran to tease the host crowd, who did not remain obliging and responded with full-throated curses.

There was no trace of any condemnation of the fighter for minorities, Barak Abramov, now the owner of Beitar, not even a few days later. The league management, in case you were wondering, has not yet "convened" to discuss the matter. Nevertheless, Ba-Raq is a friend , former brother and sponsor.

There is no trace of condemnation.

Ramsey Spori (Photo: Danny Maron)

Personally, I have no problem with fans cursing in the stands, certainly when it comes to a player taunting them.

did you score

great.

Did you go out of your way to tease after you scored?

Sha in the results.

And in general, the range of legitimate curses is very broad in my opinion, within the framework of freedom of speech.

What's more, in the end it's binary, because at the level of cruelty and in the cultural codes of 2022, there really is no difference between "fat" and "black" (shemanophobia is as serious as xenophobia);

between "smelling Yemeni" and "smelling Arab" (both racism);

Between "gay" and "son of a whore" (here there is already a festival of homophobia, chauvinism, misogyny and what not), and so on and so forth.

Anyone who is a true fan of a football team knows that the distance between the jingle that can come out of the mouth during 90 minutes and a systematic subterfuge of racism and/or homophobia and/or misogyny and/or shemanophobia etc. .

And in general, to demand that the football fields behave like pharmacies is a bit absurd in such a violent country.

Perhaps the whole difference is that in football you talk "with your hands", as Ms. Dana Weiss so aptly defined (which, of course, is not racism. Why not), so it's easy to fall for him like that.

But - and there is a huge sadness here - if a man comes, the owner of a group, and announces that he is going to "war on racism" - and not just, but "to the end" (it already sounds really serious) - because some children who traveled from Tel Aviv to Kiryat Shmona They cursed a player of Arab origin who teased them, one can only congratulate that.

And of course, to ask a complete question: why not this time?

Why don't you fight "to the end", Mr. Abramov, also against the racism of Beitar Jerusalem fans? Here is a list of recommendations, which I'm sure you, as a brave man, who pursues justice, truth and peace, know (however, you were hero enough to apply them to my fans Bnei Yehuda):

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Will we not fight to the end this time?

Barak Abramov (Photo: Danny Maron)

First, close the stand to them and move them to another stand.

You're a champion at this, you've done it several times before.

That way you will show them your arm's length and your terrible and terrible power, and they will learn who it is not worth messing with.

Assuming that for some reason they will only get angrier than that and continue to rage (or just send you to the disciplinary court, another stupid institution that has lost its cool), there is no reason not to go to option B: wait for the next home game, and then announce that only the visiting team's fans are entering.

And the Beitar fans, who paid in advance for appointments at the beginning of the season? Will they shout "Come on, come on, Ya Beitar" outside the stadium.

After all, you've already done it before, and as usual you got glowing headlines, so why not again?

And if all this doesn't help?

Start threatening to leave.

like you love.

A magnificent cadre of people who need to fill hours of screen time and broadcast waiting for your mouth, waiting to say "Amen" to every briefing or leak that comes from you.

I am sure, by the way, that the league director will support all these important and legitimate steps.

even though,

Come on Barak, it is important to fight racism and preferably "to the end".

Open a front against the racist faction of Beitar Jerusalem fans as only an enlightened, progressive and justice-seeking person like you knows. Until the end, Barak. Until the end.

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