{"id":32375,"date":"2016-10-06T04:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=32375"},"modified":"2016-10-06T04:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:06:22","slug":"italys-national-soccer-team-fined-about-31000-for-anti-semitic-fan-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/italys-national-soccer-team-fined-about-31000-for-anti-semitic-fan-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s national soccer team fined about $31,000 for anti-Semitic fan behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2013 The international soccer governing body FIFA slapped a more than $30,000 fine on Italy\u2019s national soccer team for the anti-Semitic behavior of some of its fans at a match in Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA fined the Italian team 30,000 Swiss francs, or about $31,000, for the \u201cimproper and discriminatory\u201d behavior of team Italy fans who gave the fascist salute during the playing of the national anthems ahead of the Italy-Israel match held in Haifa on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fine is never good news, but I am very proud to have raised the case on our portal,\u201d said a spokesman for the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, which had first brought attention to the incident on its news website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moked.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.moked.it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A FIFA committee later this month is set to issue recommendations on whether to allow Israeli teams to play in West Bank venues following a complaint filed by the\u00a0 Palestinian Football Association accusing its Israeli counterpart of violating FIFA rules by holding games without permission on the territory of another member group.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Italy%27s%20national%20soccer%20team%20fined%20about%20%2431%2C000%20for%20anti-Semitic%20fan%20behavior\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[1548,8790,8795,7216,1029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32376,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions\/32376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}