TuS Makkabi Berlin ended a remarkable period with a 1-0 victory over 1. FC Novi Pazar. For the first time, Berlin’s only Jewish sports club has been elevated to the Oberliga, and will compete far beyond the city borders in the coming season, including in Rostock, Neustrelitz, and Torgelow, for example. After the anti-Semitic occurrences at the conference game between 1. FC Union and Makkabi Haifa last October, Michael Koblenz, the sports director of Makkabi Berlin, said there were anti-Semitic incidents on soccer fields “nearly every weekend.” Unlike the European Cup, insults and assaults in the lower levels normally do...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
