British authorities have charged three football fans with using a derogatory term for Jews at Tottenham matches.
London’s Metropolitan Police on Tuesday announced the racially-aggravated charges for causing “harassment, alarm or distress” by using a “threatening, abusive or insulting” word – Yid.
It comes after police warned they would arrest Tottenham fans who use “Yid” in chants affectionately to deflect anti-Semitic abuse. Some Tottenham fans call themselves the “Yid Army.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron has said fans should only be prosecuted if they use “Yid” as an insult. Read more.
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Ich bin a yid. And proudly so. We should not give our enemies the power to create insults out of something we should only be proud of.