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Starmer condemns ‘wrong decision’ to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game
(www.theguardian.com)
Is this not the man who wrongly banned Palestine Action?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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With the protests in Italy during their game against the Israeli nation team this is the right decision. UK police would be forced to arrest too many people who aren't grannies as you know it will break down the same way at VP. With our man Starmer making it an offense to chant all sorts of innocuous nonsense, the numbers of able bodied offenders would be just too high for West Mids Pol to deal with.
It was Maccabi hooligans who started attacking people in Amsterdam, leading to some appallingly bad media DARVO that claimed it was Ajax fans committing antisemitic attacks.
That's especially absurd since, ike Tottenham Hotspur in the UK, Ajax has always had a significant Jewish fan base.