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Israeli soccer - like Israeli society - is whitewashing Kahane and his racist ideology
SOURCE:Haaretz|BY:Ahmad Tibi
The Israel Football Association's decision regarding Bnei Sakhnin is not just a disciplinary ruling. It is a scathing indictment of the deterioration of Israeli morality. Charging the soccer team over supporters' chants of "Kahane is dead" unmasks the distortion that has spread through the system: the attempt to create a forced symmetry between victim and perpetrator, between the sacred and the sordid. At the heart of the decision lies a false equivalence between the calls "Mohammed is dead" and "Kahane is dead." But any attempt to place the two statements on the same moral scale is a historical, legal and moral perversion.