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By: WTR, GCE Chicago High School, 2012

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How Soccer Explains the World

By, Franklin Foer

Ch. 3 The Jewish Question

“It is possible to argue that these nicknames are compliments, a tribute to the bravery and fighting spirit of the Native Americans. And isn’t obeisance a better way to treat the aborigines than slaughtering them?”

Obeisance: A gesture expressing deferential respect, such as a bow or curtsy.

The common use of cartooning and mascots is similar to how people interpret Jews and other cultures.

In the United states, we create these personas to represent a bizarre ego within our culture. The Cleveland Indians mascot was argued to be a form of offence in ways that shows American culture through a conquer of a culture in our history.

Summary

Comet Radio #70 – The Cleveland Indians Leverage Social Media to Drive Their Biz

http://cometbranding.com/general/comet-radio-70-%E2%80%93-the-cleveland-indians-leverage-social-media-to-drive-their-biz/

The reason is not anti-Semitism nor even anti-Zionism in the usual sense. It is that Israel is, and is proud to be, a nation-state—the nation-state of the Jews. And that is profoundly embarrassing to post-national Europe.”

Anti-Zionism: The disbelief that Jews should have their own nation; Jewish nationalism.

The Jews are often viewed in an offensive manor when it comes to European involvement. In soccer they were often the target of offence when Jews show any victorious aftermath. They were seen to be offensive to Europe when they show patriotism from their Israeli country.

Summary

CiFWatch.comhttp://cifwatch.com/2010/06/23/soccer-jew

Jew’s Favorite Sport

“It recoiled against the horrific deeds that it had committed—and it has swung into a militant opposition to racialism, militarism, and nationalism. Ironically, this political correctness has made it irrationally uncomfortable with Israel’s unapologetic defense of Jewish nationhood and insistence on military response to terrorism.”

Militant: “Vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause.”

Racialism: “The practice of the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows

some races with an intrinsic superiority over others .”

Militarism: “a strong military spirit or policy.”

Many countries appose to certain religions within the same country and often lash out into forms of racism, military action, and nationalism. People in these separated groups want to stand for a very particular identity and their defense of such is expressed in radial behaviors.

Summary

Anti-Semitic paranoia is alive and well among Muslims.

The Swastika and the Scimitar http://www.sullivan-county.com/wcva/goldberg1.htm

“The management of MTK won’t officially admit it, but its supporters will: The reason it has so few fans and so many enemies is because it is a Jewish club. That is to say, MTK was founded by downtown Jewish businessmen in 1888, and in the early twentieth century the team consisted largely of Jewish players.”

Management of MTK: Magyar Testgyakorlok Kore ; a Hungarian athletic cub consisting of Jews and is termed an anti-semitic Jewish club.

In anti-semitic areas, they protest the connection to Jewish culture and nationality. In certain cultures were there is Jewish presence, whether anti-semitic, they will be deemed by that culture. Therefore organizations of anti-semitic origin will still show a powerful Jewish presence; such as the MTK athletic club.

Summaries

Revolt of the Plebs: http://revoltoftheplebs.weebly.com/#/

Although I am not Jewish, I can connect to these types of protests based on a religious influence because I have witnessed many other anti beliefs stemmed from a religious culture. Such as Christian protest against the gay culture.

These Jewish anti-semitic and Zionism is linked to much of past Nazism and how those beliefs are still previlent in other religions and countries.

Connection

This section in Foer’s book addresses serious issues between belief systems and cultures. These cultural differences show connections to protest and alienation.

What makes these religious beliefs so intensely protested against when it comes to protecting general ideas about life?

Questions