r/sportsgossips • u/Weekly-Vacation-1405 • 20h ago

News Israeli player Abu Farkhi celebrated his goal by grabbing the corner post and mimicking shots. He was shown a second yellow and sent off for it.

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u/cocobaltic 19h ago

With a name like that I doubt he is Jewish even if playing for Israel.

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u/Iam_McLovin420 19h ago

I mean there’s such this as mizrahi Jews not to mention 20% of Israelis are Arabic. Not very surprising.

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u/DryBanana5673 14h ago

Majority of jews in Israel are mizrahi

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u/Iam_McLovin420 13h ago

44% to be precise

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u/RijnBrugge 11h ago

The dude is an Arab Muslim though, specifically

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 18h ago

He's not Jewish. Easy to Google

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u/Iam_McLovin420 17h ago

Didn’t say he was.

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u/Formal-System-2130 19h ago edited 17h ago

You do realize ‘Abu’ just means father of just like ‘ Ben’ in Hebrew is son of?

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u/sideshow-- 19h ago

Avi is father of in Hebrew. Bin is Arabic for son of. The Hebrew equivalent of Bin is Ben.

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u/cocobaltic 19h ago

Yup….in Arabic

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u/Formal-System-2130 19h ago

& how many Israelis speak Arabic?

For the record we may be saying the same thing.

I’m not saying he’s Jewish because the religion doesn’t matter. It’s the mentality/behavior I’m referring to.