Anti-Semitic incident at a basketball game?

On March 28, 2006 in Moscow during the semi-final match of the ULEB Cup between the Moscow basketball club "Dynamo" and the Israeli club "Hapoel" (held at the sports complex "Dynamo"), an anti-Semitic incident took place. were seen in the stands According to the website "Anti-Semitism. No" with reference to the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", "skin-headed youths with characteristic nationalist stripes on their sleeves" and anti-Semitic cries were heard.

It should be noted that the president of the Dynamo club Yevgeny Gomelsky (according to the site Anti-Semitism. No - "also a Jew" ) at a press conference held after the match denied this information and accused the members of the Hapoel club of suffering from persecution mania. "We warned our fans more than once - nothing racist, nothing anti-Semitic ... There is always a certain problem with the Israelis - they try to justify themselves for the defeat ...", Gomelsky said.

Sources

• Dynamo fans threatened to hang Jews // Anti-Semitism. No. 2006. March 29.