Anti-Palestine chants
On Wednesday night there had been several incidents involving Maccabi fans, one of whom was captured on film tearing a Palestine flag off a building. Footage from Wednesday evening also shows a large group of Maccabi supporters chanting “Fuck you Palestine” in the city centre.
RTL’s Middle East correspondent Pepijn Nagtzaam said that Maccabi Tel Aviv have a number of hardcore fans who are “not afraid of violence”.