"We're Hunting the Jews!"

Feyenoord fans, no matter how old, hate the team from Amsterdam known as Ajax.

Sometimes, however, they do more than just flash the finger.      

A popular chant:

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssss... (the hissing sound of gas)
We're hunting the Jews!
There is the Ajax train to Auschwitz!
Sieg! Sieg! Sieg! [German for 'victory', yelled while performing the Hitler's Salute]      

Who's that Jew over there?
That Jew from Amsterdam?
He's fucking his own kid
His name is Danny Blind

Van Praag is Jew plague
Put Van Praag under a circular saw

From Ajax USA: "We're Hunting the Jews!"

The phenomenon of jewing during Ajax games is about sixty years old, already. Salo Muller, Bennie Muller, Sjaak Swart and — most likely — Eddy Hamel were called 'shit Jew' or 'fucking Jew'.

During the 1970s, young supporters of a few Dutch football clubs formed the first Dutch 'sides'. The Ajacieden drew swastikas on walls, with markers or paint sprayers, and for a short while they called themselves SS, an abbreviation for Super Slopers ('Super Demolishers'). According to Ronald Pieloor, who's been a member of the F-Side for 25 years, they did that to show off. Other clubs' sides, however, referred to Ajax as 'the Jews', since Amsterdam was — of course — 'the Jews' town'. The F-Siders then started calling themselves Jews. Around 1980, the nature of the jewing changed: Nazi symbols were used for the first time.

Also, from The New York Times: A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia Without Jews

Just minutes before a high-stakes soccer game not long ago between this city's home team, Ajax, and their rivals from the southern city of Eindhoven, a chant built to a roar in the hall packed with supporters where they were serving plastic pint cups of Dutch beer.

"Jews, Jews, Jews!" thousands of voices cried.

Outside, souvenir stalls sold Israeli flags or flags with the Ajax logo, the head of the fabled Greek warrior, emblazoned inside the star of David. Fans arrived with hats, jackets and scarves embroidered with Hebrew writing. Until recently, the team's official Web site even featured the ringing tones of Hava Nagila and other Jewish songs that could be downloaded into fans' mobile phones. ...For years, the team's management supported that unique identity. But over time what seemed to many people like a harmless — if peculiar — custom has taken on a more sinister tone.

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You may be aware that Spurs are the "Jewish" team in London. And Antwerp in Belgium. Altho, in London, Arsenal seem to have as many Jewish supporters.