Polish soccer fans displayed a banner reading “Israel murders and the world stays silent” at a match featuring a Haifa team earlier this month in Hungary, prompting Israeli fans to respond last week at a rematch with a sign that read: “Murderers since 1939” in reference to Poles.

The incidents, on Aug. 8 and Aug. 14, coincide with a campaign to disqualify Israel from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in connection with its war against Hamas in Gaza, and a separate and tense debate about Polish complicity in the Holocaust. Soccer fans stoned the Maccabi Haifa fans’ bus outside the venue in Hungary, Ynet reported.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki condemned the actions of the Israeli fans but did not address those of the Polish ones. “The scandalous banner displayed by Mac

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