The establishment continues to embarrass itself over the fascist, racist, misogynist, and violent fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv. After the decision of West Midlands Police and Aston Villa football club to ban them from a ‘European’ fixture in Birmingham early next month, the establishment have persisted in trying to overturn the decision.

Keir Starmer, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, the UK ‘mainstream’ media and an array of pro-Israel mouthpieces, including one who happens to work for an Islamophobic pro-Israel think-tank, supposedly representing a Jewish Villa fan-club that doesn’t exist, all came out of the woodwork to attack the Villa/WMP decision as racist. And then, they were promptly exposed as sold-out fools when the club’s Israeli home city cancelled its game on Monday night because of rioting by Maccabi fans, who were then filmed roaming about looking for someone to beat up.

Starmer and co have not apologised or withdrawn their smears – and former Tory party leader Iain (Duncan) Smith was still pursuing the issue on Monday, claiming in the House of Commons chamber that when Maccabi played a match against Istanbul, everything went off with no problems or violence.

Liverpool MP Ian Byrne, an actual football fan, then had to point out that football’s European ruling body UEFA decided the match had to be moved to Hungary because Turkish authorities refused to allow it to take place in Istanbul – and their Hungarian counterparts then ordered it to be played it behind closed doors.

And that was why there was no trouble at that one game:

Skwawkbox understands that Smith is still in A&E for the removal of his foot from his mouth.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.