My Long March in the Yid Army (posting this for my beloved Jewish friend in England - a country I never tire of visting - who along with all Jews in the U.K. need our support more than ever in the current political climate in that country. About the Tottenham Hotspur and Jewish identity) By JONATHAN WILSON Tottenham Hotspur, the North London English Premier League football—that’s “soccer” to you—team that I have supported body and soul through five decades of glory and abject misery, also go under another name: the Yids. This wasn’t always the case, and let me say at the outset that the nickname is not derogatory, or, rather, it isn’t only derogatory, but also celebratory. But let me backtrack before I explain. The Jewish population of Greater London, currently estimated at 283,000, has, since the Second World War, largely been concentrated in North West London, a shift away from both the East End, where the community has its origins, and North London, first stop on the move o...
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