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The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Scholars believe that sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular society, especially before the mid-20th century in Europe and the United States. [1]
In England, Jewish businessmen helped form the Premier League in 1992. [4] Tottenham Hotspur has a large proportion of Jewish supporters. [5] Their supporters refer to themselves as "Yids", seen as a derogatory term for Jews. The Metropolitan Police have said they will arrest anyone who uses the term Yid. [6] Their previous three chairmen were ...
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (/ ˈ t ɒ t ən ə m /, [2] [3] TOT-ən-əm, / t ɒ t n ə m /, tot-nəm) or Spurs, is a professional football club based in Tottenham, north London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.
Tottenham fans have long used the offensive chant while Chelsea fans currently have their club up against sanctions for using it. Tottenham defends 'Y-word' chant, Chelsea condemns it Skip to main ...
Tottenham is the home of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur. From 1899 until 2017, the club's home ground was White Hart Lane . In 2017, White Hart Lane ground closed and demolition commenced to make way for a new stadium on the same site, known as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium , as part of a wider project for the redevelopment of ...
The support for Tottenham Hotspur traditionally comes from the North London area and the nearby home counties such as Hertfordshire and parts of Essex.An analysis by the Oxford Internet Institute that maps the locations of football fans using tweets about Premier League clubs during the 2012–13 season showed Tottenham to be the most popular on Twitter in 11 London boroughs (mostly in the ...
Judenklub (English: Jew club) is a derogatory, antisemitic term used throughout the Nazi era in Germany and Austria, applied to association football clubs with strong Jewish heritage and connections. [ citation needed ] Some of the most prominent clubs referred to in such a way by the Nazis were FC Bayern München (Munich), FK Austria Wien ...
In 2017, 7% of Jewish adults in the Metro DC Jewish community identified as LGBT and 7% identified as Jews of color or Hispanic/Latino Jews (12,200 people). 9% of Jewish households in the region include a person of color, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. The majority of the DC region's Jews of color, three out of ten, live within Washington, D.C. [20]