(1) Nonetheless, before taking YID-001 for a spin on the Tuggeranong Parkway, Murrumu and his associates did inform the police that the car licensed to the Yidiindji government would be driving on local roads.
(2) Our film was sparked by the behaviour of a Chelsea fan who, sitting a few seats behind me and Ivor one Saturday, decided to upgrade the chant – regularly heard at Stamford Bridge whenever anything Spurs-related comes up – to a more pointed one of "Fuck the fucking Yids!
(3) Three years ago, me and my brother Ivor made a short film for Kick Racism Out of Football called The Y-Word , which attempted to challenge the acceptability of the chanting of the word Yid (and other antisemitic chants) across a variety of London clubs.
(4) Many Chelsea fans who I have challenged feel they are justified because "the Yids is what Spurs call themselves".
(5) That includes baiting Liverpool fans about Hillsborough, calling Spurs fans “Yids”, old loyalist songs about the IRA, taking drugs and openly flouting smoking bans inside grounds, starting fights and generally invoking negative and outdated stereotypes about fans from different parts of the country or other countries.
(6) Now, during a visit to the national capital he has, since 2 January, been driving around in YID-001, a car that was, Murrumu says, “licensed to the sovereign Yidindji government” on the first day of the new year.
(7) But Murrumu said he decided to release YID-001 “in Ngambri (Canberra in Walgalu, the language of the custodians of the plains upon which the national capital is imposed) for the very symbolic gesture that the head office called Parliament House of the Commonwealth of Australia is located there”.
(8) The comedian and writer David Baddiel, a Chelsea fan, also argued the use of Yid and similar words is antisemitic.
(9) So while the businessman David Harding can reasonably suggest that words such as “geek” and “nerd” are as offensive as “nigger” and “yid”, we know that they are not.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur fans resisted the threat of criminal action over chanting of the word "yid" during their home match with Norwich.
(11) Tottenham Hotspur fans have been told they could be arrested if they use the word "Yid" during the club's home match against West Ham United on Sunday as the simmering row over Spurs supporters' routine use of the words "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo" led to a warning over their behaviour from the Metropolitan police.
(12) The black and gold plates read: “ Yidindji - YID-001 - Pursuant to Yidindji Tribal Law.” The car’s driver is Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, a man in his 40s from the country around Cairns, north Queensland , who last year decided to voluntarily “leave Australia” and live by the tribal law of his Indigenous people, the Yidindji.
(13) The car he was driving, fitted with black and gold number plates reading YID 001, had also come to police attention and the plates were taken.
(14) Their fans regularly parade the club's Jewish credentials, chanting "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo".
(15) The prime minister told the Jewish Chronicle last month there was "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult", adding: "You have to be motivated by hate.
(16) In the third minute of the game "We'll sing what we want" rang around White Hart Lane, followed by the traditional cry of "Yid Army".