BVB wants to take on social responsibility

Representatives from the Bundesliga, such as BVB Managing Director Carsten Cramer, as well as Jewish communities have highlighted the importance of professional football in the fight against anti-Semitism.

"We are much more than just a football club. We and want to take social responsibility, especially off the football field. Because anti-Semitism was and is more than ever a danger in the here and today," said BVB Managing Director Carsten Cramer on the Toxic Day " Anti-Semitism and professional football: challenges, opportunities, network "in Dortmund.

"It's about durability and a serious, long-term and, above all, sustainable confrontation with the topic," Cramer said. "It's about recognizing anti-Semitism in his beginnings and clearly naming, because only through credible work-up and employment, we can assert our social influence. And above all, something in the minds of people move and trigger."

"Huge Chance"

The Vice President of the Jewish World Congress, Maram Star, also stressed the power of football. "The close ratio of clubs to the millions of football fans is in my opinion a huge chance in the fight against anti-Semitism," he said, complementing the club representatives: "They are and their clubs that follow fans from all walks of society in the unique Position, calls and processes to attempts that we all need. "

The member of the Executive Board of the German Football League, Ansgar swing out the current significance of the fight against anti-Semitism. "Anti-Semitism is and remains a growing threat," said the 52-year-old. "A threat to the Jews in Germany. But also a threat to our democratic community."

According to 2021, preliminary numbers, which called the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Interior Ministry of Mahmut Özdemir (SPD), were recorded 3028 anti-Semitic offenses. 63 of which were violent tableties.