Journalists’ union cries foul over move to ban Haaretz from stadium after bitter feud over ‘racist blot on club’s recordIsrael’s most controversial football team,Beitar Jerusalem, has banned reporters working for the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz from its press box in an increasingly bitter row over reporting of the club’s alleged anti-Arab racism.
The club’s hardcore of supporters, or known as La Familia,acquire become notorious over the years for their behaviour, including chants of ”death to Arabs” as well as the media are whores”. The club has dropped Haaretz’s football correspondent from a Whatsapp group for press releases and told its journalists they are no longer welcome in the press box.
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Source: theguardian.com