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If you think that what I wrote suggested it was news to me, you haven't been reading English for very long.

Unlike Islam and Christianity, historically there was no religious reason for a Jew not to charge interest on a loan to a non Jew. Jews became the money lenders in much of Europe, and lending was done at high interest rates. This is the origin of the stereo type that Jews love money.

It is not sinister, it is almost traditional at Spurs games, like homophobic abuse at Brighton games. It is a hangover from the past, a way of winding up the opposition, not a true reflection on how people really think, but it is time for it to go.