Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson’s latest outburst of Islamophobia has led to him being referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (PCS) by fellow MP Ayoub Khan. In a House of Commons debate on Monday November 24, DUP’s Wilson had been voicing his opposition to the entirely sensible decision of Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to prevent Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League match against Aston Villa in Birmingham on November 6.
Wilson said the decision to exclude hordes of racist hooligans vomited out of a genocidal pseudo-state (so-called ‘Israel’) was actually because:
…West Midlands police [had] given in to pressure from Muslim politicians and Muslim thugs. As a result, the Jewish community are once again left feeling that they are the disadvantaged people.
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg will presumably be examining the Islamophobic nature of the DUP MP’s baseless remarks, though he may want to additionally delve into their antisemitic content. The conflation of Jewish people in general with some of the very worst that a settler-colonial abomination can muster is an appalling slur against an entire community. Maccabi fans hit the headlines in November 2024 for their atrocious behaviour in Amsterdam, when they assaulted bystanders, tore down Palestinian flags and engaged in chants such as: “There are no schools in Gaza, as there are no children left” and “Death to the Arabs”.
Police were correct to ban racist hooligans
After communicating with Dutch police, WMP concluded that “violent clashes and hate crime offences” in Amsterdam involving Maccabi hooligans meant the match in Birmingham carried a “high risk” status. They supported the Safety Advisory Group’s decision to exclude the Zionist thugs. The Labour Party strongly opposed the decision, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer foreshadowing Wilson’s dreadful conflation by saying:
This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets.
The extent of their opposition was such that it left one wondering if they actually wanted violent clashes to break out in Birmingham. Any Maccabi fans wounded after such an outbreak could easily have then been used as a pretext for further crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism. This ambition had gathered momentum after Labour cynically exploited an attack on a Manchester synagogue on October 2.
Recent reporting has suggested the WMP’s intelligence on the away supporters was based on “fake claims”, though even the ‘Israeli’ police have cracked down on the brutal racist thugs of the Tel Aviv club. The Times spoke to an Amsterdam police spokesman who expressed surprise about the WMP claim that 200 Maccabi fans were connected to the Israeli Genocide Forces. He said this would be a redundant claim, given the settler-colony has a policy of conscription. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature will recognise that observation lends additional credibility to the WMP assessment rather than less, given virtually all Maccabi supporters will have been indoctrinated into a genocidal terror force.
Ayoub Khan, an Independent Alliance MP, told Middle East Eye that Wilson’s comments were:
…disgraceful, inflammatory, divisive, and deeply irresponsible.
He continued:
Here we are, facing a situation in which an MP openly used the phrase ‘Muslim thugs’. He could easily have said ‘thugs’. He chose not to. He attached a religion, an already targeted and vulnerable community, to criminality.
‘Parliamentary Standards’ a sham in an ill-mannered, plutocratic talking shop
The PCS will no doubt be looking at whether Wilson breached Rule 1 of the MPs Code of Conduct, which states that:
Members must treat their staff and all those visiting or working for or with Parliament with dignity, courtesy and respect.
Such a rule seems a bit of a farce in a chamber where braying cretins jeer, slander and pontificate their way through proceedings on a daily basis. Greenberg may also examine whether the East Antrim parliamentarian was in violation of Rule 11, which is designed to punish MPs whose behaviour causes:
…significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally.
This seems a bit of a lost cause too, given the reputation of parliament is in the single digits, and where there can be zero integrity in a system that allows the rich to pay off politicians. Wilson is among that number, having been temporarily purchased by the Zionist entity to piss away time on a propaganda junket to stolen land rather than serve his own constituents. Whether being wined and dined by the criminals of an openly racist project has influenced his own bigotry is open to debate, given he has form here. The DUP man has ranted incoherently in the past about Muslim schools producing “jihadists”.
The real question that should render all the above immaterial is why teams from a racist, genocidal, occupying, ethnic-cleansing, expansionist land-theft project are allowed anywhere near international sporting competition in the first place? The only upside to allowing them to remain and accepting their travelling fans is that the odd one might get chucked in a canal, a rare form of accountability for thugs from a nation accustomed to total impunity. In this sense, Birmingham’s many waterways went sadly underutilised for this worthwhile purpose.
The DUP MP and others’ vain attempts to do business-as-usual on ‘Israel’ won’t work
A vote by UEFA on kicking the unhinged entity out of European competition was postponed in the wake of US president Donald Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’, which has seen over 300 Palestinians murdered by ‘Israel’ since its inception. The Guardian said at the time:
Uefa never officially confirmed that it was considering an extraordinary meeting of its executive committee to vote on whether to exclude Israel from its competitions, but plans on the proposal were understood to be well developed, with any meeting expected to have been called at short notice.
A similar ‘nothing to see here, folks’ charade was conducted by the European Broadcasting Union amid the prospect of the Zionist entity’s removal from Eurovision. These instances are very much in line with the sorry affair regarding the Villa match, as pro-Zionist ruling classes desperately fumble around trying to put the pin pulled by Netanyahu back in the grenade. The increasingly transparent attempts to invert reality repeatedly blow up in their face, however, with increasing authoritarianism likely their only means at this point of shoring up the shaky edifice supporting Zionism.
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