‘Concerned’ football fan Andrew Fox, honorary head of a Jewish Aston Villa fan group, was recognised by the World Zionist Organisation in 2024. He’s also an ex-army disinformation expert with links to shadowy thinktanks. His past claims the Gaza death toll is wrong have been slammed as ‘flawed’. And it’s not even clear if the group he claims to be head of exists…

Fox popped up on the Murdoch-owned Sky News amid the current furore over Maccabi Tel Aviv , a notorious far-right football club, who have banned by police from attending a match against Aston Villa. The Israeli team’s fans bring violence wherever they go, attack locals and sing about raping Arab women.

You can read about how the British establishment has almost universally endorsed these fascist thugs here.

Andrew Fox – Bizarre framing by Sky

Fox was originally framed by Sky News as a concerned Jewish football fan raising concerns about the police ban:

Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.https://t.co/j8UnKpEcQC pic.twitter.com/OINHhdfyRz

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 17, 2025

Sky, who are a fucking disgrace at the best of times, have since clarified that Fox isn’t Jewish:

This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 17, 2025

But there’s more. It’s not even clear that the Jewish Villa fans group Fox claimed to be an honorary president of even exists. We’ll let you know if we can confirm that.

Sky have some questions to answer. No one in the Villa community seems to have ever heard of this Jewish fan group with a non Jewish President. https://t.co/BKjGNd1loO

— Jake CBE, OBE, MBE, KNOB (@JakeJK666) October 18, 2025

Questions like that didn’t stop Fox turning up on slapstick TV channel GB News as well:

Unsurprisingly this Facist has turned up on the comedy news channel now. https://t.co/Gjy90ulF0g

— Jake CBE, OBE, MBE, KNOB (@JakeJK666) October 18, 2025

And as another X user pointed out, for a man framed as an average footie fan, Fox spends quite a lot of time egging on the genocidal Israeli military:

so Sky News interviewed this dude who claims to be the honorary president of a Aston Villa jewish supporters group, which doesn’t actually exist, and he isn’t jewish, and he just spends his time cheering on the IDF on twitter? brilliant journalism https://t.co/8xirsXa2Wh

— jodie c (@jodcoll) October 18, 2025

But that’s not the half of it. So who actually is Andrew Fox?

Perennial ‘genocide denier’ and hard-right think tanker

Luckily the Canary’s ex-military grifter understander – me – is on hand. Fox is one of a network of hard-right ex-military figures who’ve made a career out of gobbing off for cranky neocon thinktanks and making the case for US imperialism.

Fox served in the Parachute Regiment for 16 years. He is now an associate fellow at the conspiratorial Atlanticist thinktank The Henry Jackson Society (HJS). His HJS describes him as follows:

…he spent three years as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation. He holds degrees in Law & Politics, Modern War Studies, and Psychology.

His extensive experience has established him as a recognised authority in his field and he provides regular commentary on defence and foreign policy across the media including articles in the New York Post, the Telegraph and Spiked. He has amassed a large following across his digital platforms, including X (formerly Twitter) and Substack, where he writes on disinformation, defence and security as stories develop.

Okay, not exactly a neutral actor. But that’s just the start of it.

World Zionist Organisation

His own bio – on his own website, under his own name – which Sky News either couldn’t be bothered to check or deliberately omitted, says:

His work on the Middle East conflict was recognised by the World Zionist Organisation in 2024. In 2025, he was featured on Algemeiner’s J100 list of People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, alongside Donald Trump, Douglas Murray and Javier Milei amongst others.

Keeps great company then. But all this suggests Sky have skipped over even the most basic journalistic standards. Not for the first time, but hey: you do you, lads.

There’s STILL more. Fox’s website claims he visited Lebanon and Gaza during the Israeli Genocide:

In 2024, he visited Gaza twice as well as captured Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon. In 2025 he was the first neutral researcher invited to observe the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites, and also visited the frontlines in Ukraine.

Let’s just clarify here.

To visit a GHF site – these were the armed aid points run BY Israel – one cannot simply meander into Gaza like you’re off for Sunday stroll.

To claim you are a ‘neutral observer’ at a site you can ONLY reach under the protection and sanction of the Israeli military is shaky enough. But claims he’s done so with the kind of credentials (and political allegiances) Fox has is frankly bizarre.

Interestingly, Fox’s specialisms also include “the psychology of disinformation”. Hmmm.

Debunked death toll claims

Fox has also made a habit of contesting claims about the Gaza death toll during the genocide. But his critique was described as “flawed” by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) in late 2024.

For some actual analysis of the shadowy GHF aid points you can listen to me and Declassified UK’s Alex Morris here. We also look at another HJS-linked, Israel-apologist former army officer, Colonel Richard Kemp:

We note the BBC also failed to mention Kemp’s role in an Israeli military charity currently under investigation by the Charity Commission in an interview in June. It does kind of seem to me like Zionist apologists get mate’s rates on legacy media though…

For another serious look at GHF than Fox could summon, you can hear the chilling testimony of ex-US green beret and GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar here:

Genocide denial

Fox has a long track record of taking the most immoral possible positions on the Israeli attack on Gaza. X user Hamza Yusuf claims to have found him backing the murder of journalists and calling the destruction of Gaza “necessary”.

He’s not some random fan.

He’s a supporter of Israel who defended the murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and heaped praise on Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

He also called the destruction of Gaza “necessary”.

Shame on you @SkyNews https://t.co/Q9IY5tDpds pic.twitter.com/5LMDOp57T4

— Hamza Yusuf (@Hamza_a96) October 17, 2025

As of 1 October, the International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) says 223 journalists and media workers have been killed by the Israelis in Gaza alone.

And for someone who claims to be an advocate for Jewish people, Fox hasn’t gone down very well with Prominent Jewish commentator Tom London. London was very blunt about Fox’s views on the genocide:

People who deny the GENOCIDE in Gaza are as morally vile and odious as Holocaust deniers https://t.co/b473DBDwob

— Tom London (@TomLondon6) October 18, 2025

Since the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore started tiny fascist parasite Tommy Robinson – currently on a break from his terrorism trial to visit the apartheid state – seems to be planning to go to Birmingham on the day of the match.

And in the background it feels like establishment politicians and journalists are in lock step. It feels like they’re desperate for an inciting event to launch a crackdown on both Muslims and the Palestine solidarity movement.

In times like these, riddled with misinformation and disinformation as they are, it’s an absolute travesty that the legacy media is letting pro-Israel figures get away with making claims like these unchallenged.

Featured image via Sky News/X screenshot

By Joe Glenton

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