by Dave Rich
My viewing of Match of the Day on Saturday night was disturbed while watching the highlights of the game between Chelsea and Arsenal; not by the poor standard of Premiership defending on display, but by the reaction on Twitter to Arsenal’s first goal:
The ‘Jew Goal’
The question of how deeply embedded antisemitic stereotypes and slurs are in society is one of the less tangible areas of antisemitism research. Often, examples emerge in the most banal settings: less serious in many ways than actual antisemitic hate crimes or statements by high profile people, but somehow more troubling for their casual, unthinking, ‘commonsense’ nature.
