How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob |
The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It confirms what many of us suspected: that West Midlands Police allowed themselves to become the militant wing of Israelophobia. They did the bidding of the mob, dutifully banning Israeli Jews in order to appease local bigots in Birmingham. This really is one of the worst police scandals of modern times.
People know the basics: fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were barred from their team’s clash with Aston Villa on 6 November last year. The top cops of West Midlands Police enthusiastically did the media rounds to explain their decision. Maccabi fans are violent ruffians with a record of targeting Muslims, they said. We now know these claims were built on a tissue of lies and Israelophobic prejudice.
The new report lays it out in eye-watering detail. From the very start of this scandal, West Midlands Police were evasive and dishonest. Take their claims about the behaviour of Maccabi fans in Amsterdam in November 2024. They said 500 to 600 Maccabi fans had been involved in clashes with local communities, that 200 of them had links with the IDF, and that their scummy behaviour extended to pushing Dutch Muslims into a river. But none of it was true. Every claim was disputed by Dutch law enforcement.
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