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VIDEO: Hungarian football fans sang about “Jewish crime” in stadium
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Some radical football fans sang about so-called “Jewish crime” in Szeged stadium. The Southern Hungarian city’s club played with MTK Budapest. MTK is traditionally regarded in the Hungarian football world as “the Jewish team”. Read about what happened below.
The Jewish football club of Hungary?
1888 is the foundation date of the MTK, Wikipedia writes. The reason was that some young athletes of Jewish origins could not compete in the aristocratic and Christian Magyar Athletikai Club then. Therefore, they founded the “Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre” (MTK).
Interestingly, every word was Hungarian in the name of their club, which was rare those days. That is because they wanted to emphasize their distance from the Jewish community of Budapest. A further example of that pursuit was when the club transformed into Hungária FC in 1926. Wikipédia says that the MTK has been open to everybody and widely regarded as a democratic and cosmopolitan club.
A scandal broke out after MTK’s match with the Szeged-Csanád Grosics Akadémia on Monday evening. Some radical and antisemitic football fans started chants about so-called “Jewish crime” after the final whistle, telex.hu reported. MTK reported the sorrowful events to the police.
There should be no such thing is Anti Semitism. It is time to grow up. Religion does not define a man, Catholics, Protestants and Jewish people are equally Hungarian. It is unacceptable for one Hungarian to go after another Hungarian.
Stop being stupid and give up this childish behavior. All those that participated should be ashamed of themselves.
Antisemitism is an unChrist-like attitude and behaviour. Victor Orban speaks a great deal about Hungary being a Christian country. Antisemitic taunts are not Christian. Jesus himself was a Jew and Christians according to the scriptures are called to pray for all Jewish people – Christians are the off-shoots of the Jewish religion and so should be grateful to them.