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:
The media reporting over Tel Aviv Maccabi fans is an absolute disgrace.
It’s not journalism. It’s propaganda.
Last year, Sky News produced a package of what Maccabi fans actually did in Amsterdam.
They then deleted it with no explanation.pic.twitter.com/uNdfkZOLHi
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) October 17, 2025
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.
2/Even the tweet accompanying the video has changed. It has explicitly shifted from mentioning anti-Arab slogans to removing the phrase “anti-Arab” and using antisemitism. It also removes mention of vandalism by Israeli fans. An extremely clear editorial shift! pic.twitter.com/6i2MXddLLL
— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) November 9, 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:
In November last year Yuval Gal explained that some of the Maccabi supporters who rioted in Amsterdam were Israeli soldiers who have been committing genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/6DQDD4NoDp
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 17, 2025
What this Lord is not telling you about why there weren’t more arrests of Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans in Amsterdam:
The footage of their attacks was deleted. https://t.co/NX70FCMYe5 pic.twitter.com/tvnVp6hzPD
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) October 17, 2025
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:
UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy wants to “see if there’s a way” to stop the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a football game in Birmingham next month.
Here’s a video of the team’s supporters singing: “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there”. pic.twitter.com/ospA3KTT7H
— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) October 17, 2025
You think it’s “evil” to boycott the sports of a state committing genocide.
Tell me, what word would you use to describe Maccabi Tel Aviv fans chanting
“You’re the whores of Arabs”
and about raping women?pic.twitter.com/PrzyYOMYQp https://t.co/SmdyyR49yb
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) October 17, 2025
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:
Britain’s media and political classes out of touch with the public on hooliganism.
42% think the Maccabi ban was right 28% think it’s wrong https://t.co/xWYtLRcyvy
— Sangita Myska (@SangitaMyska) October 17, 2025
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:
On the left, Skys sports correspondent @SkyJacquie saying that away fans are normally banned when they’ve caused violence before but “thats not the case here”
On the right, Maccabi ‘fans’ beating a man unconscious in Athens earlier this year. pic.twitter.com/tEDA5RSqh7
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 17, 2025
Here’s ex Liberal Democrat leader and current weirdo Tim Farron talking as if he was in Football Factory:
‘We’re not banning them because they’re Jewish, it’s because they’re hooligans…’ is the risible defence for the MT ban from people who know nothing about football or hooliganism, but are desperate not to acknowledge or admit their own racism. This is a stain on Britain.
— Tim Farron (@timfarron) October 16, 2025
Here he is suggesting we should permit Israeli hooliganism in 2025 because we had hooligans of our own half a century ago:
Let me tell you a story about pretty much every British club in the 70s and 80s….
— Tim Farron (@timfarron) October 17, 2025
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:
Conflating Maccabi football hooligans with “Jews” is about as antisemitic as it gets. https://t.co/9doxBtnDDs
— Frances ‘Cassandra’ Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) October 17, 2025
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:
Want to know what an anti semitic racist c**t looks like? Below right. https://t.co/rbX1nFyniD
— Iain Dale
(@IainDale) October 16, 2025
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
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