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"Ten Tribes Tribal Report"
Scotland, Australia, Netherlands.
8 September 2011, 9 Elul 5771
Contents:
1. Netherlands: 'Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas'.
2. Australia: Body of infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly found
3. Scots-Irish Contribution to the USA. Excerpts from Book Reviews, Part One.
1. Netherlands: "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to
the gas"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/
0,7340,L-4115438,00.html
Manfred Gerstenfeld offers glimpse into anti-Semitic chants in Dutch world of
soccer
Manfred Gerstenfeld
Published: 08.30.11, 00:00 / Israel Opinion
Anti-Semitism is a recurrent problem in the world of soccer. Nowhere else,
however, is the origin of wide-spread anti-Semitic chants in stadiums as bizarre
as in the Netherlands.
Earlier this month, anti-Semitic slogans were the subject of a court case
brought by BAN, an organization fighting anti-Semitism, against ADO. In March,
this top league club from The Hague won a game against Ajax from Amsterdam.
During the match ADO supporters frequently chanted ''Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the
Ga'? and 'Horrible Cancer Jews.'
However, the Jews at whom ADO supporters aimed were not Jews at all. They
were the fanatic fans of Ajax who in a distant past had started to refer to
themselves as 'Jews.' These supporters accompanied their team with Israeli flags
and Stars of David to the stadiums. Some fans even had tattoos of the Star of
David. There was a time that when Ajax scored a goal, their fans would sing the
Israeli song Hava Nagila.
Ajax has had a few Jewish board members and it has a small number of non-violent
Jewish supporters. They make up perhaps 1% of those present at home games. A
number of them initially viewed the nickname and its accompanying phenomena
favorably not realizing what its long-term consequences would be.
Fanatic supporters of other soccer teams, principally from the big cities of
Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, considered the Ajax nickname a provocation and
started with the hate chants. Initially these were anti-Semitic in nature but
not in context, as they were aimed at non-Jews. ?Bomb Rotterdam? retorted the
Ajax fans when they played against local team Feyenoord there. They were
referring to the murderous bombardments of the town during the German invasion
of the Netherlands in May 1940.
Jews must be on guard
Anti-Semitic songs gradually spread in other directions. In October 2004,
Referee Rene Temmink ended a game between ADO and the PSV of Eindhoven. There
had been lengthy shouts of "Hamas, Hamas, Temmink to the Gas." It was the first
time in Europe that a top league game was halted midway due to hate chants.
Soccer fans gradually started to sing the anti-Semitic songs elsewhere also
aiming at real Jews. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, chief rabbi of the Dutch
interprovincial rabbinate, said that he, together with a non-Jewish
psychologist, once entered a train full of Feyenoord supporters. When these fans
saw them, they started to chant: "Jews to the gas." Jacobs said that he
got the feeling that the whole train of "ordinary Dutchmen" was against
them.
Nowadays at anti-Israel demonstrations in The Netherlands, "Hamas Hamas, Jews to
the gas" is also heard, mainly shouted by Muslims. Even though these kinds of
outbursts are prohibited by law, offenders are rarely punished. In one such
demonstration in January 2009, two parliamentarians from the left-wing Socialist
party participated. They claimed afterwards that they hadn't heard the shouts.
There are also reports that Muslim students at various Dutch schools have sung
the same hate song to insult Jewish students.
In recent years, Dutch authorities have started to understand that this
proliferation of hate songs must be stopped. In May, Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard
van der Laan requested after Ajax became league champions that its fans stop
using the nickname 'Jews.' He observed: 'It is a matter of changing this
behavior, which may take 10 years.'
2. Australia: Body of infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly found
http://news.yahoo.com/body-
infamous-aussie-bushranger
-ned-kelly-found-002524804.html
Extracts:
Considered by some to be a cold-blooded killer, Kelly was also seen as a folk
hero and symbol of Irish-Australian defiance against the British authorities.
After murdering three policemen, he was captured in Victoria state in 1880 and
hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November of the same year. But his body went
missing after it was thrown into a mass grave.
Believed to have been born in 1854 or 1855, Kelly became an outlaw two years
before he was hanged, taking on corrupt police and greedy land barons.
He survived a shootout with police in 1878 that saw him, his brother Dan, and
friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart slapped with an 8,000-pound bounty -- the
largest reward ever offered in the British Empire -- for anyone who found them,
dead or alive.
Over the next 18 months, the Kelly Gang held up country towns and robbed their
banks, becoming folk heroes to the masses.
In a final gunbattle at Glenrowan, three of the gang members died and Kelly,
dressed in home-made plate metal armour and helmet, was wounded and arrested.
Photos of his skeletal remains clearly show a bullet hole in one of his leg
bones.
Victoria Police, meanwhile, issued a statement saying that while Kelly's life
was "one of Australia's most iconic cultural stories", people should remember he
"murdered three police officers in the course of their duty".
The exploits of Kelly and his gang have been the subject of numerous films and
television series.
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger played the lead role in the 1970 movie "Ned Kelly"
while Heath Ledger starred as the bandit in a 2003 remake that also featured
Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush.
He has also been the inspiration for many books, most notably Peter Carey's
novel "True History of the Kelly Gang", which won the 2001 Booker Prize.
3. Scots-Irish Contribution to the USA. Excerpts from Book Reviews, Part One.
Limited Excerpts from Reviews of
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
by James Webb
http://www.amazon.com/Born-
Fighting-Scots-Irish-Shaped-
America/dp/0767916883
From Publishers Weekly
Former navy secretary Webb (Fields of Fire; etc.) wants not only to offer a
history of the Scots-Irish but to redeem them from their redneck, hillbilly
stereotype and place them at the center of American history and culture. As Webb
relates, the Scots-Irish first emigrated to the U.S., 200,000 to 400,000 strong,
in four waves during the 18th century, settling primarily in Appalachia before
spreading west and south. Webb's thesis is that the Scots-Irish, with their
rugged individualism, warrior culture built on extended familial groups (the
"kind of people who would die in place rather than retreat") and an instinctive
mistrust of authority, created an American culture that mirrors these traits.
From Booklist
Scots-Irish culture has produced American presidents from Andrew Jackson to Bill
Clinton, soldiers from Ulysses S. Grant to George Patton, pioneers, preachers,
and others whose most common characteristics may be described as fierce
individualism, persistent egalitarianism, and a strong sense of personal honor.
Perhaps the most visible examples of broad and ongoing Scots-Irish legacy are
the fundamentalist Christianity (a potent combination of Scottish Calvinism and
headstrong populism) of America's Bible Belt and country music. Webb begins the
Scots-Irish saga in Scotland, where, he says, the Scots-Irish character was
formed, moves on to the Ulster Scots of what is now Northern Ireland, and
follows them to the Appalachians and points beyond as well as through the
American Revolution, the Civil War, and up to the present day. Popular history
at its finest. June Sawyers
Review
James Webb reveals the all-but-invisible ethnic group that has created the core
beliefs of democracy American-style: our rights come from God, not the
Government; all of us are born equal, and 'born aristocrats' don't exist; and
tread on either of those two truths, and we'll fight you down to the last
unbroken hyoid bone. The Scots-Irish, for such is their name, have fought all
our wars for us, including Vietnam. James Webb was there, and he can count.
Tom Wolfe --
Product Description
In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic
story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by
resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the
social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through
the present day.
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose
bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border
between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's
Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish
migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families
and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also
unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural
identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military
tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of
the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form
of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary
War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy
Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain;
and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall
Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most
of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who
fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the
Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and
giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how
the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of
the nation's elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military
services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
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