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°Dutch Soccer Club
- Wary Of Anti-Semitism

Amsterdam (JTA) — A
premier Dutch soccer team
has announced it will take
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strong measures to prevent
‘„ racist and anti-Semitic
b views from being expressed
at soccer matches.
Ge Voortman, chairman of
the Go Ahead Eagles, said
the team had recently in-
stalled closed-circuit video in
its stadium. "Those who will
' be caught expressing racist
views are to be expelled from
the stadium for at least half
a year," he said.
Holland has no law to pre-
, -vent such expressions, which
have become commonplace
at European soccer matches,
and it has proven difficult to
root out the instigators.
But Mr. Voortman said,
C "Special arrangements have
gbeen made between the club,
the police department and
the district attorney to pros-
ecute perpetrators on the
spot."
Go Ahead Eagles is the
first club to take any action
against the growing wave of
racist and anti-Semitic sen-
ctiments being expressed at
soccer matches throughout
;)-Europe.
The club has invested
some $50,000 in the anti-
racist campaign. No other
club announced it will follow
the initiative yet.
Anti-Semitism and racism
, at soccer matches have par
ticularly affected Ajax, a
soccer team based in
Amsterdam known as a
"Jews' club" which never-
theless has no Jews on its
- lineup. It is not even clear
._, why it is called a Jews' club.
Amsterdam is referred to
as a Jews' town by the rest of
the country, although it has
only 30,000 Jews out of a
population of 1,835,000 in
"the Greater Amsterdam
area.
In fact, only a handful of
Jews play professional
soccer.
In recent years, groups of
'?
soccer fans throughout
> ,,,Europe have been infiltrated
by extreme right-wing,
‘;)racist and fascist
movements. Besides unfurl-
ing banners with swastikas
and other Nazi signs, fans
make hissing sounds to
„,imitate the leaking of gas, as
a reminder of the Nazi gas
- chambers.
j These racist demon-
' strators are also prone to
, yelling: "Please, Hitler,
'-` return. You haven't finished
your job yet."
Older fans, senior citizens
born before World War II,

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are shocked to see how easily
a sports event can turn into
a neo-Nazi rally.
The racist strains of anti-
Semitism and anti-black
sentiments have also become
melded.
A few weeks ago, Dutch
soccer player Aaron Winter
was transferred to the Rome-
based club Lazio. Italian
soccer fans, hearing his Jew-
ish-sounding name, reacted
angrily to the news, saying
they did not want a Jew to
represent their team.
Ironically, Mr. Winter is
not a Jew. He is black, the
son of Hindu parents from
Suriname, in South
America. His second name,
in fact, is Muhammed. He
himself is not religious at
all.
In Germany, black players
have become victims of
racist rowdiness for the
duration of every game.
Gaston Taument, who is
black and was Dutch Rookie
of the Year for 1991, said:
"Never ever will I play for a
German team. Black players
just have no life in Ger-
many."
Mr. Taument even fears
playing against a German
team in the European soccer
tournament because of the
anti-black activities at Ger-
man meets.
Until now, neither soccer
clubs nor players have
spoken up against the prob-
lem. Most clubs have tried to
push the problem aside by
ascribing it to "a changing
society," while claiming the
problem should not have to
be solved by soccer clubs.
Up until now, Dutch clubs
pointed at law-enforcement
authorities to solve the prob-
lem. In Italy, a special law
was passed aiming at
preventing racism at soccer
games. In the Netherlands,
it seems that there are no
legal tools yet at hand.

Jews Arrive
From Sarajevo

Jerusalem (JTA) — Forty
Jews from war-torn Sarajevo
are expected to fly soon to
Israel, the Jewish Agency
for Israel has announced.
Residents of that strife-
ridden city have lived in
terror since war broke out
among the republics that
once comprised Yugoslavia.
More than 400 Jews from
the former Yugoslavia have
found refuge here since
fighting broke out.

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