Police arrested 20 people during a soccer match here last weekend after it erupted in anti-Semitic and racist catcalls.
Supporters of the Rotterdam team Feyenoord made hissing sounds to imitate Nazi gas chambers and shouted “Jews” at members of the Amsterdam team Ajax. For some reason, the Ajax soccer team, which has no Jews, is known as the “Jews Club.”
Against the background of growing anti-Semitic and racist expressions at European soccer matches, an attempt at a response was made by supporters of both teams, who distributed flyers against racist epithets.
Holland has no law to prevent such expressions. But another Dutch soccer team installed closed-circuit video in its stadium to locate such hooligans, arrest them and prevent them from attending games.
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