Berlin: Knife-Wielding Pro-Palestine Mob Attacks Jewish Children
12th November 2024
Even a youth football team is considered fair game by some extremist attackers, as long as the players are—or appear to be—Jewish. The 13-to-16-year-olds squad of Germany’s Makkabi Berlin, a team set up in the 1970s by Holocaust survivors, was attacked last week.
While playing in the Berlin borough of Neukölln, known for its large Arab and Turkish population, players were reportedly “hunted down” by a gang of Arab youths, armed with sticks and knives and shouting “free Palestine” and “f*****g Jews.”
One father took to social media to describe how his son was “deeply shaken” after being “insulted and even spat on several times.” He also accused the match’s referee of failing to properly intervene.