Max Nordau had a dream. Beitar Jerusalem were supposed to be an ideal manifestation of it. That was until politics turned it into football’s worst nightmare.
Prologue
Born in the mid-19th century, Max Nordau was a Zionist leader and the co-founder of the World Zionist Organisation along with Theodor Herzl. One of his most influential contributions to the Zionist agenda was coining the term Muskeljudentum or muscular Judaism.
The term Muskeljudentum refers to the burgeoning of both mental and physical strength among the Jewish diaspora to combat racism, among other things.