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This article aims to understand the motivations behind Beitar Jerusalem football fans' opposition to Arab players.

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Narrative analysis reveals how Beitar fans oppose Arab players, defining their Jewish collective identity and boundaries.

This article aims to understand the motivations behind Beitar Jerusalem football fans' opposition to Arab players.
Conducted narrative analysis of fan interviews to extract underlying meanings and logic.
Examined appropriations of sacred Jewish spheres in fans' perspectives.
Analyzed how fans delineate boundaries between Jewish and Arab identities.
Fans perceive Arab players as defiling their club, reinforcing a nationalist ideology.
The sanctification of Beitar aids in defining Jewish communal identity and boundaries.
Fans maintain a hierarchy that privileges Jewish identity in Israeli society.

Guy Abutbul-Selinger (2019) studied this question.

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