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British establishment has sided with Israeli hooligans over UK police and residents

British politicians and pundits have seemingly decided they’re all pro-hooliganism. They’re not just supporting hooliganism in general, either; they’re supporting the introduction of foreign hooligans who pose a risk to British citizens. The hooligans in question are the ultras of Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, and this isn’t the first time the British establishment has attempted to gaslight us on this:


What the hell is going on in this country that our politicians and political figures are more dedicated to violent foreign hooligans than the truth?

Israeli Hooligans: A history of violence

As we reported at the time, Sky News initially reported that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ran riot in Amsterdam in 2024. 


Many outlets immediately described the scenes of 70’s style hooliganism as a 30’s style pogrom against Jewish people. And they’re still trying to present that narrative today:


As we reported yesterday, Keir Starmer himself has stepped in to defend the hooligans. This is despite the police and Birmingham City Council deciding it’s unsafe to invite a roving horde of genocide-supporting nationalists:

Politics aside, these are football ‘fans’ in the true ‘fanatic’ sense. This isn’t normal behaviour for European games in the 21st century, and British people have no interest in bringing it back:


So, Birmingham is against it and the broader public are against it.

But is there someone we forgot to ask?

The establishment steps in

Increasingly, British politicians and pundits are on something of an auto-psychotic kamikaze mission to blow up their own reputations. Anyone looking at the facts of this situation can see that there’s an obvious risk to British safety. And yet – and fucking yet – these establishment ghouls are once again trying to say that it’s antisemitism.

Here’s Sky News getting in on it:

Here’s ex Liberal Democrat leader and current weirdo Tim Farron talking as if he was in Football Factory:

Here he is suggesting we should permit Israeli hooliganism in 2025 because we had hooligans of our own half a century ago:


Good argument, Tim – may be should all drink lead and use mustard gas too?

Either Farron is incredibly foolish or he thinks his followers are.

Here’s Frances Coppola highlighting that conflating Israeli hooligans with Jewish people in general is considered antisemitic under the IHRA definition that the establishment pretends to respect:


Here’s just one of many right-wing pundits who are increasingly losing it because they know the public is no longer buying into their delusions:

Threats

These selfish British journalists and politicians are playing an incredibly dangerous game.  If you keep pointing at soldiers carrying out a genocide or hooligans doing hooliganism and saying ‘this is all Jewish people‘, eventually some portion of the public is going to  believe you.

To be honest, we think they can see what they’re doing, and they just don’t care.

The antisemitism smear worked well enough for a time, and they’re going to keep pushing it for as long as they can to provide cover for their genocidal Israeli allies.

Featured image via Quds News Network/X screenshot

 

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.