From the British Arsenal football club:
Celebrating our Jewish GoonersAhead of Sunday's match against Brighton & Hove Albion, we celebrated the official launch of Jewish Gooners with a special party at Emirates Stadium.The Jewish Gooners supporter banner was also revealed inside the stadium for the very first time at the match, marking the arrival of our newest official supporters' club.The group has been set up by Jewish Arsenal supporters wanting to express and celebrate their identity as a community.Around 70 supporters attended the launch event, including club legend Perry Groves and Lord John Mann, the UK Government’s independent advisor on antisemitism.Speaking at the launch, Lord Mann, said: “It’s fantastic to see Arsenal and their community of Jewish supporters working together in this special way. Football has a unique power to unite communities and Arsenal and Jewish Gooners are setting the example for others to follow. I’m looking forward to seeing what they can achieve together, and I’m delighted to support them on their journey.”
The Algerian Echorouk Online site is very angry at this. How dare a British football club honor its Jewish supporters ....on Nakba Day! Honoring Jews provokes the feelings of Arabs and Muslims!
The newspaper sarcastically added:
The Arsenal club management, which knows the British colonial past in the Arab world well, has chosen history carefully to honor its Jewish fans. It is synonymous with the 15th of May, which coincides with the Arabs and Muslims“Nakba Day.” The fateful date on which Britain expelled the people of Palestine (May 15, 1948) and planted the Zionist entity in the heart of the Arab land.
The match where it was introduced was on Sunday, not Monday.
And Arsenal officials do not care about their team losing by3-0 to the visiting Brighton Club, and abandoning the dream of winning the Premier League title.... As far as the old mother (Britain) is concerned, the spoiled girl (Israel). is taken care of .
Arsenal and the Jewish fans didn't mention Israel once.
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