«As Jesus said to the Philistines…». «Pharisees«, corrects another user of the portal Atalantini.online more versed in biblical studies than in Orobic folklore. A surreal exchange that shows how Bergamo has been prey to a collective hysterical crisis for a few days now, so far only on the Internet. The blame, as always, lies with politics and football: next Thursday Atalanta debuts in the Conference League and an Israeli team arrives at the New Balance Arena.
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It is called HaPoel of Tel Aviv, one of the historic clubs of the Jewish State. When the pairing was announced, the keyboard intifada broke out on the organized fan social media. ProPal unleashed demanding the boycott of the match, the suspension of the cheering or at least whistles against the visiting team. «As Jesus said to the Philistines» continues the user quoted at the beginning, throwing himself into a bizarre historical reconstruction starting from the biblical Philistines who would have become today’s Palestinians. The Nerazzurri commentator, with Bergamasque equanimity, concludes that those people there, Semites & related, have been killing each other for thousands of years without any possibility of peace. «As Jesus said to the Philistines», in fact, a local proverb says, «those who get screwed are always the same ones». Which means: «It’s always the same ones who get screwed».
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The clash on the web is violent; on one side the proPal, who are or seem many. Facing them are mainly fans who do not want to hear about politics, let alone Middle Eastern stuff. «Only Atalanta». «Politics out of the stadiums». For now, however, the organized groups have not issued directives regarding Thursday’s match. The push from the pro-Palestinians and a few rare Arab or Muslim users is nevertheless determined. As everywhere, however, scratch beneath the proPal and you find the proPutin. «Israel is in Asia, what is it doing in a European competition?». (Modest answer: the Arab and Islamic neighbors do not want them). «Politics out?».
Another asks rhetorically: «So why are there no Russian teams?». The opposite front is more colorful: «They do so much here (so to speak) but why don’t they go there to help? They would be the first to run away». «It seemed strange that there was no “Free Palestine”», writes another. Some go classic: «Go to work». «They must be in line too», hypothesizes a user who perhaps refers to the disasters caused by the new electric bus service in the city. «If you like Islamic terrorists and fanatics, go live in those countries! Idiots!». «Boycott your left brain, I will always go to the stadium anyway, forza Dea». «You’ve pissed me off with Gaza». «Enough already, dozens of wars in the world but you only care about there… Children die elsewhere too….». «Gaza… Who? Gascoigne?>. And with this joke, the curtain falls.
The police authorities, however, are on alert. Not because of football precedents: Fiorentina-Maccabi Haifa (2024) and Trento-Hapoel (2024) took place without serious incidents. It was a bit worse last October with Italy-Israel in Udine when there were clashes and arrests. Instead, the Euroleague basketball game Virtus Bologna-Maccabi Tel Aviv (November 2025) degenerated into urban guerrilla: thousands in procession, firecrackers, water cannons, injured officers. And controversies between PD mayor Lepore and the Interior Ministry Piantedosi. The comic aspect of the story is, however, that the bloodthirsty Zionists complicit in genocide and in red shirts – red like the blood of Palestinian children – are instead the team and the fanbase furthest to the left in the Jewish State.
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In the curve, flags with Che Guevara and Palestinian ones abound. Those who support it do not vote for Bibi. It is also the most followed by the Israeli Arab public, after Maccabi Haifa – but this fact is normal: Haifa is the great Arab city in northern Israel. The reds of Tel Aviv are the worker’s team par excellence and the name itself says it, ha-Poel means the worker, the laborer. When there is the derby with Maccabi Tel Aviv, which has a right-wing fanbase, the secular one close to Likud and Netanyahu, batons fly. Nothing, however, compared to the matches with Beitar Jerusalem: a team born from the youth wing of Likud but increasingly shifted towards religious Zionism, the one today embodied by Ben Gvir and Smotrich. Then clashes break out between ultras of HaPoel and Beitar to which only the old guard of Orobic cheering, the Bòcia generation, could participate without disgrace. It remains to be understood at this point whether the Orobic proPal will end up boycotting or whistling the team that hates Netanyahu the most. It would not be surprising at all: the Israeli left has been getting beaten by everyone for years. Jesus told the Philistines that too.
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