bayern has literally made noussair mazraoui met representatives of the jewish community of munich the other day. After he was slammed on the front page of bild who called him a terrorist supporter, after being shamed in more than one statement while he was away playing with morocco and being used as a scapegoat to discuss the well being on the other israeli player in the team. no further comment from progressive bayern ultras.
now mainz has terminated anwar el ghazi's contract, after suspending him, un-suspending him, putting in his mouth words he never said, apologies he never meant, twisting his words, playing with his feelings, altering his intentions until they proceeded to fire him. He's showing courage and he's speaking up for everyone but this is extremely upsetting. [also just a reminder, let's spare a thought for Youcef Atal in france who was suspended for SEVEN match days in the end].
German clubs' ultras clearly stand by them on this. St. Pauli's ultras are leftists, but not when it comes to Palestine apparently. They were harshly criticised by Celtic's The Green Brigade ultras on this in the past few weeks (The Green Brigade, by the way, has recently been banned from the stadium for publicly supporting Palestine during matches. You can read their statement about it here].
St Pauli's ultras recently showed the following banner, clearly stating their own side (only focus on hamas & antisemitism) and sending a message to Celtic fans who criticised them ("from gaza to glasgow"), basically accusing Celtic ultras of being antisemitic.
to which Celtic's fans replied with this:
What happened to Anwar El Ghazi's is not surprising when even what are supposed to be some of the most progressive and left-sided fans in germany are failing to show up here. I know zionist propaganda is pretty real in Germany but this is quite distressing to see.
"Well, thank you first of all and well, now I'm here and I think this is being broadcast live, is it? See, I'm not supposed to be here, because we've only got two points and it's quite late and the day after tomorrow is game-time, so I'm kind of in trouble a bit now, so I'd like to thank from the bottom of my heart my club, here in Cologne, Borussia Mönchengladbach! Thank you for letting me be the way I am, I know it's not always easy, but thank you very much!"