How the oligarch owner of the U.K.'s Chelsea soccer club is fighting anti-Semitism.
While guests such as Herzog and members of London’s Jewish community gathered in London to view the mural, Abramovich remained absent. The 53-year-old, who made his fortune in the oil and gas industries in Russia, encountered visa trouble amid a downturn in relations between London and Moscow in the aftermath of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March 2018., drawn up by the U.S.
Chelsea has had its own struggles in combating anti-Semitism from some of its supporters during the 1970s and the 1980s, continuing to the present day. Last year the club was charged by the Union of European Football Associations, European football’s governing body, after what Chelsea itself described as anti-Semitic chanting at a game in Hungary.refer to themselves as “Yids”
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