Well, that stopped that fairly quickly They're trying to stop people using that actually, Ledley King and Frank Lampard are the faces of a new campaign to remove racism from English Football
Leeds have also been called the Yids in the past (and continue to be by Huddersfield fans in particular) due to our large Jewish community and their historic involvement with the club. So hello from one Yid to another... I guess!
As far as I'm concerned, you can use it in the way that we use it, but not in the way that certain other teams' fans use it. I'll view any attempt to use it as an insult as racism and treat it as such.
No, not the way Spurs fans use it. Actually, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me why "Yid" is offensive, period. It makes Yiddish come to mind, a language I like and am illiterate in. It's comes from "Jude" (pronounced "yoodah", which is just German for Jew.) I guess the combination of it being mispronounced and its history of being used by anti-Semites makes people say it's offensive. Wikipedia says if you pronounce it, correctly, as "Yeed" it's the Jewish "paisan": friend, countryman, dude, etc. In any case, it seems to me that surely if you use it in a positive way, as Spurs fans would, it's not offensive. I definitely like the Israeli flag being associated with Spurs, for no reasons other than that it's a striking symbol and has the same colors. (My father's family is Jewish. Though I'm not, I figure that gives me a say in what's okay and what's not in reference to Jews.) Incidentally, yid would only refer to around half the world's Jews, the Ashkenazi (eastern Jews, originally from Germany to Russia).
