Seems to be numerous reports every year about racist chants in Europe, with Dutch football clubs among the worst offenders.

Hopefully cameras can identify the offenders and they get life bans from the club.

Racist parties and organizations in the UK, such as the EDL and BNP, derive a portion of their support from the football-hooligan base.

Of course, most football fans are not hooligans or racists, but there is probably more of this with regard to football than other sports.

Football players and supporters have sought to combat this through the 'Kick Racism Out of Football' campaign:

http://www.kickitout.org/

As regards anti-Semitism specifically, the Dutch fans are probably among the worst, but it goes on everywhere. In the UK it is often directed against the Spurs team and their supporters: there is a historical association between this team and the London Jewish community, though like all teams nowadays, it's pretty international in composition these days and mostly non-Jewish. Recently, West Ham fans were major offenders in this respect:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/nov/26/west-ham-antisemitic-chants-sickening

I have only (mainly) heard about the issues with the UK (on occasion Italy). I had no idea how bad it was in the Netherlands.

"Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With God as our father
Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step i take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
With peace eternally.
Let ther be peace on earth,
And let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With god as our father
Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
In peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me. "

My Church sings this hymn every Sunday without fail and as we are singing we greet each other shake hands & hug the person next to us whether we know that person or not.

And let it begin with me.

At one point a few years ago they actually had to suspend a game in Italy between Milan and Roma, two of the top teams, because the Roma fans were chanting racists slurs at Mario Balotelli, who is black.

Don't know why, but the chanting gets ugly.

It also gets violent sometimes, although I've heard it's not as bad as it used to be.

and subtle Holocaust denial from a DUer in another thread.

Sadly, DU appears to be not much better.

Sid

Ajax, an Amsterdam club, has been nicknamed "the Jews" for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Ajax#Jewish_connection

Historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having "Jewish roots". Although not an official Jewish club like the city's WV-HEDW, Ajax has had a Jewish image since the 1930s when the home stadium was located next to a Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Oost and opponents saw many supporters walking through the Nieuwmarkt/Waterloopleinbuurt (de Jodenhoek) to get to the stadium. The city of Amsterdam was historically referred to as a Mokum city, Mokum (מקום ) being the Yiddish word for "place" or "safe haven", and as anti-Semitic chants and name calling developed and intensified at the old De Meer Stadion from frustrated supporters of opposing clubs, Ajax fans (few of whom are actually Jewish) responded by embracing Ajax's "Jewish" identity: calling themselves "super Jews", chanting "Jews, Jews" ("Joden, Joden&quot at games, and adopting Jewish symbols such as the Star of David and the Israeli flag.

This Jewish imagery eventually became a central part of Ajax fans' culture. At one point ringtones of "Hava Nagila", a Hebrew folk song, could be downloaded from the club's official website. Beginning in the 1980s, fans of Ajax's rivals escalated their antisemitic rhetoric, chanting slogans like "Hamas, Hamas/Jews to the gas" ("Hamas, hamas, joden aan het gas&quot , hissing to imitate the flow of gas, giving Nazi salutes, etc. The eventual result was that many (genuinely) Jewish Ajax fans stopped going to games.[102]

In the 2000s the club began trying to persuade fans to drop their Jewish image. In 2013 a documentary titled Superjews was released by NTR and Viewpoint Productions which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The film was directed by Nirit Peled, an Israeli living in Amsterdam, and an independent film maker who offers a very personal view into the game, the lore of Ajax and its relation to Judaism from both the supporters as well as from a Jewish perspective.