Banning Jewish fans

In yesterday’s post abut the Maccabi Tel Aviv visit to Aston Villa next month, and the Birmingham Islamic scholar who pronounced that, as regards the fans, “we will not show them mercy”, I suggested – slightly tongue in cheek – that the police might wish to question him on the matter of promoting racial hatred and threats of violence. Well, they’ve chosen a different approach:

Police in Birmingham could not guarantee that local Islamic thugs would not attack visiting Jewish football fans.

So they banned the Jewish fans from going.

This is unacceptable capitulation and cowardice. We should have escorted the Jewish fans with the army if need be.
— David Collier (@mishtal) October 16, 2025

Added:

Safety of Villa fans…
The fear was not Israeli fans coming to support their team.
The fear was the rowdy mobs coming to "protest" and intimidate.
The same people calling for "peace" whilst chasing down people based on their religion here in the United Kingdom!
Led by you….… https://t.co/d4yuGmIKdD
— Aston Villa Updates (@avfcbreaking) October 16, 2025

Aston Villa match is about who controls the streets of UK’s 2nd largest city. The football is a very red herring.
— Mark Gardner (@MarkGardnerCST) October 17, 2025

It’s certainly not the police – who are now admitting that they can’t prevent antisemitic hate mobs from attacking Jews on the streets of Birmingham.

Mick Hartley

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