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There are many tottenham fans that are jewish, but obviously not all of them. Tottenham (and the north london) is home to a lot of jews, and naturally they support their closest football team.
The more they did this, the nastier became the response from rivals, which, eventually, led to the invocation of t he holocaust.
The yid is largely based on factual events that occurred in february 1953 when stalin ordered a pogram to solve russia's jewish problem with massive deportations to siberia. A group of misfits come together to commit regicide by killing stalin.
Does the work of tracing the history of yid identity at match against tottenham would see his team go off to play the yids.
I have written dispassionately in the past of the big yid debate– whether or not there is a tinge of anti-semitism to the proud nickname of tottenham hotspur fc fans, or the yid army as they insist on calling themselves.
The spurs being a north london club has a significant fan base in areas north to the thames and that includes places like the east endthe east end of london historically home to large immigrant populations witnessed the arrival of a huge ashk.
Fresh attention has turned to the prevalence of the word ‘yid’ in english football. The word, a derogatory antisemitic slur, has long been adopted by tottenham fans, in recognition of the club’s.
So, apologies once again to the innocent teen on the train and thank you yid army for liberating a racist word from its tragic history.
The words derive from the yiddish term for jew but are thought to have been taken up as an insult during the 20th century. Chants of “yids”, “yid army” and “yiddos” are frequently heard in the home stands at tottenham games, with some spurs fans justifying their use by saying they have “reclaimed” the words.
Yid army! yiddos! yiddos! yiddos! to be fair, it’s not like the fa had the wrong idea when issuing its warning. The term “yid” has been used as an epithet against jews for more than 100 years, and tottenham’s continuing identification with the word has caused numerous problems just over the past year alone.
Where the number on the back normally appeared, these two had emblazoned on their outfits the expression, “yid 4 life. ” then i saw other fans streaming toward the ground, some with the more simple word “yids” on their garments, others with the same word but in the patois of north london—“yiddo.
The use of the name redskins is different to the tag “yid army” in one way: where spurs fans use the y-word to refer to themselves, to their club’s historic roots in london’s jewish communities, “redskins” is a term that refers to others, in fact to the other, as native americans were seen for many years, particularly by racists.
Yids or yiddos began to be used in the 1980s, mainly by rival arsenal fans towards tottenham fans as a term of abuse because of the large jewish population in the haringey/stamford hill area. The spurs fans made the nickname a badge of honour by calling themselves the yids or yiddos.
The anti-semitic term has been aimed at tottenham fans due to the area's large jewish population and spurs supporters sing yid army as a form of identity. In a statement the fa said: use of the term 'yid' is likely to be considered offensive by the reasonable observer.
The y-word: a unifying badge of honour or an archaic anti-semitic slur? ‘yid army! yid army! yid army! yiddo! yiddo! yiddo!’ these words have echoed through white hart lane (and more recently wembley, though arguably to a less striking effect) for nearly half a century.
The term yid comes from an abbreviation of yiddischer which means a person of the typically eastern european jewish shtetl culture.
In response to the abusive chants, tottenham supporters, jewish and non-jewish alike, began to chant back the insults and adopt the yid identity starting from around the late 1970s. Tottenham fans chant yiddo, yiddo repeatedly, yid, or yid army.
As you can see, it is similar to “yehudi”, “jew” in hebrew. Judah was one of the twelve sons of jacob, who was given a second name, israel. So, yid, or yehudi or jude come from yehuda or judah, literally meaning tribe of judah or children of israel.
This is evident in the return to the headlines of the decades-old “yid army”, and with it, the most spurious of controversies, stoked by various establishment figures, virtually all of them jewish,.
Yid army - общее название фанатов тоттенхема the club, as with many clubs in london, has a large jewish following and this has led to much anti-semitic provocation against tottenham supporters. Tottenham supporters, jewish and non-jewish, united against this and adopted the nickname yids, developing chants to support this.
Regardless of the ugly history of the term, it has become almost as much a part of the club's culture as the cockerel crest and pubs on the tottenham high road.
Yid definition is - —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a jewish person.
Jewish chronicle columnist gerald jacobs (2011) argued: ‘“yids” chanted at tottenham by home supporters is not the same as “yids” chanted by the baddiels’ fellow chelsea fans known for their emetic “gas-chamber” hissing’.
(after all, ‘yid’ is a yiddish word which was only turned into an insult by anti-semites: the club is reclaiming a yiddish word. For all the attempts to restrict free speech in the past, gays were not told they could not call themselves ‘queer’ (a similar reclaiming of language, from an insult to a badge of pride).
Cameron threw his support behind the yid army chant, telling the jewish chronicle newspaper that there’s a difference between a spurs fans self-describing themselves as 'yids' and someone.
Tottenham hotspur fans often refer to themselves as the 'yid army', a term that many find offensive credit: rex features i t is a precarious state.
Peter herbert, from the society of black lawyers, is the chap with an axe to grind on this occasion – he wants police to arrest spurs supporters singing yids, yid army, yiddos or other such.
It is not uncommon for thirty thousand fans to sing the phrase “yiddo” or “yid army” following the scoring of a goal or in appreciation of a specific player or manager.
The world jewish congress and the board of deputies of british jews have condemned tottenham hotspur supporters’ use of the nickname “yids” and called for fans to take a stand against using.
And, sure enough, within minutes of fans being seated, the chant of “yid army” rang through tottenham hotspur stadium.
The world jewish congress and the board of deputies of british jews on friday condemned the use of the word “yid” to describe tottenham spurs, a soccer team that has historically labeled itself the “yid army” because of its huge jewish fan base.
A few years ago, spurs conducted a ‘full consultation exercise’ over the use of ‘yid army’ because of fears it led to ‘casual anti-semitism’, but this was criticised by many of their own supporters who felt the chant united jewish and non-jewish tottenham fans. ‘if you are tottenham, you are a yid,’ is the line many take.
However, fans have continued to use the term, saying it is not used derogatorily by team supporters.
The football association has issued a moratorium on the word, claiming that any fan caught chanting “yid” could face criminal charges.
This has nonplussed many decent, anti-racist, spurs fans who consciously adopted the “yid army” moniker as an act of defiance against anti-semites. When the racist term “yid” was chucked at them, they chose to turn a negative into a positive and wear it with pride.
Across the atlantic ocean, police are cracking down on the tottenham hotspur football club and its yid army fanbase, sparking a controversy that, like in america, has divided fans.
Yid army flag i’ve been a fan of the team for 50 years, largely because my jewish father was born nearby. Tottenham always had a large number of jewish supporters, because the catchment area for the club has a sizeable jewish community.
Yid army - общее название фанатов тоттенхема the club, as with many clubs in london, has a large jewish following and this has led to much anti-semitic provocation against tottenham supporters. Tottenham supporters, jewish and non-jewish, united against this and adopted the nickname yids.
Both jewish and non-jewish spurs fans use the y word in what they consider to be an inoffensive manner.
On september 5, 1882, the english soccer club tottenham hotspur was founded. Not, on the face of it, an event of jewish significance, except that in recent decades, the team’s fans have taken on a quasi-jewish identity, calling themselves “yids” or even as the “yid army.
The comedian said that the prime minister would not let another racist term pass his lips: tottenham hotspur fans insisted chants of yids, yid army and yiddos are part of their tradition.
Advertisement while the use of yid by spurs fans has its own fraught history, what is clear is that rivals often use this history in racist ways.
The yid army has only been in existence since the late 70’s after spurs coined the phrase gooner only for us to embrace it wholheatedly which came as a shock to the masses in the cage. Afterwards u slowly started to embrace the star of david and the yid army came shortly afterwards.
Opposing fans have long sung antisemitic chants against tottenham, and spurs fans have long embraced the identity, singing ‘yid army’. The fa has said that the word ‘yid’ ‘is likely to be considered offensive by the reasonable observer’ and is ‘inappropriate in a football setting’.
I have chanted “yid army” with gusto, in the same way that i would chant “come on you spurs”. In its article on the subject the daily mail says, the metropolitan police, however, has previously advised spurs that mass chants such as ‘yid army’ will not lead to prosecution on the basis there is no ‘deliberate intention to cause.
Spurs supporters did not grow up as 'yids'; they became yids in adversity through a complex and contested process of identity formation. Forced to respond to pejorative, abusive taunts from rival supporters, many in the crowd embraced the term in order to render the abuse impotent.
That is the identity they have freely chosen and cultivated over many years.
And the truth is that there is nothing morally wrong with spurs fans chanting ‘yid army’ or ‘yiddo, yiddo’. On the contrary, through self-identifying as yids they are expressing a sense of pride in their football club. Anyone who attends a spurs match will know right away that the yid chants have nothing to do with anti-semitism.
Tottenham hotspur fans are known to refer to themselves as 'yids' or the 'yid army, a tradition which is thought to date back to the 1970s (photo: getty images).
I think that whilst there is an unsavoury connotation with the term 'yid army' being the name for the hooligan fan firm of tottenham hotspur, the terms 'yid army', 'yiddo' or 'yids' are used.
Yid is a three-letter word that's been used as an insult for jews. Yid is the nickname for fans of the tottenham hotspur football club.
Two main events in 1973 led to introduction of crowd segregation and fencing at football grounds in england. Manchester united were relegated to the second division, the red army caused mayhem at grounds up and down the country, and a bolton wanderers fan stabbed a young blackpool fan to death behind the kop at bloomfield road during a second division match.
Yids and yid army are far more common, however, i know a spurs fan and he tells me there is an element of their support (of which he is a part of) that do not engage in the 'yids' and 'yid army' chants, not saying your partner is, but he might be part of the opinion that they find the whole 'yids' thing offensive.
For various reasons (fan base, directors, alf garnett, racism) some fans of other clubs started taunting tottenham fans by calling them yids which they thought was an insult [citation needed]. While most tottenham supporters are not jewish many choose to identify themselves as yids and the term yid army derives from the tottenham fans choosing to embrace their new nickname rather than view it as an insult.
Couldn't be bothered to write properly on it, but wrote this quickly: what is missing from the (mostly non-spurs supporting) analysts is that yid is not used in general speech to refer to jews any more. When have you heard the term yid used as a racial term? language evolves and develops.
Jewish football fans have welcomed tottenham hotspur’s decision to ask supporters if the club should continue to be associated with the racist slur ‘yid army’.
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