Maccabi Tel Aviv Fans Must be Allowed to Attend the Aston Villa Game on November 6th
A Europa League fixture between Premier League side Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Villa Park in Aston, Birmingham, will see a section of the ground remain remote and soulless when the two meet on November 6th. This comes after independent MP Ayoub Khan campaigned for supporters from Israel not to be allowed to attend the match. Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were told on Thursday that they were barred from entering the ground to watch their team following advice from West Midlands Police, citing ‘safety’ concerns. But given the history and comments made by those in charge, is this a genuine attempt to keep local residents safe?
Football is no stranger to bans on away supporters in recent times. The Old Firm derby between Rangers and Celtic introduced a ban on travelling fans in 2023 – not only due to fierce rivalry and high levels of violence between the two sets of supporters but also because of ongoing ticketing disputes between the clubs. In 1994, the Rangers chairman banned Celtic fans from Ibrox due to vandalism. Moreover, European fans have a reputation for being among the most aggressive, loyal and intimidating in football. Mass parades, large travelling contingents and electric stadium atmospheres differentiate European football from British football, prompting strict and heavy policing when playing abroad.
It would be understandable if Birmingham City Council were banning the fans from Villa Park purely on the grounds of keeping locals safe. After all, during Maccabi Tel Aviv’s match against Ajax in Amsterdam last year there were violent clashes between both sets of supporters, prompting the side visiting the West Midlands to be classed as ‘high-risk’. Nevertheless, many fear the Council is doing this for politically motivated reasons. After all, European football fans have continuously been allowed to attend English fixtures since 1990 despite strict regulations and their chequered reputation.
Ayoub Khan – whose constituency includes Villa Park – is a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Khan is also an unpaid director of Mr Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party, which was accused of sharing a Hamas symbol and advertising a pro-Palestine rally featuring the slogan: “Until the genocide ends. Until Gaza breathes. Until apartheid falls. Until the occupation is defeated. Until we have justice.” Khan is also a pro-Gaza advocate and was praised by a Muslim influencer for his decision to ban the Israelis, claiming “we (Birmingham’s Islamic group) will not show them (the Israelis) rahma”, referring to the Arabic word for compassion and love. Clearly, this decision appears to have stemmed from his own personal anti-Israel opinions.
Two other key figures involved in this case are Craig Guildford (Chief Constable) and Joanne Roney (Council Managing Director). Guildford was recently accused of backing officials who covered up details of an asylum seeker case after two Afghans were charged with the rape of a 12 year-old girl in Nuneaton. He was responsible for creating the risk assessment that led to the banning of travelling supporters from entering Villa Park. Roney, meanwhile, was previously accused of calling a property agent a “massive Jewish bellend” while working for the authority.
Three of the protagonists in the football club’s ban from the upcoming football fixture at Villa Park appear to have made their decision based on prejudice, corruption and concerns over Israel’s visit to Aston, where approximately 70% of residents are Muslim. This decision has sparked backlash from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who are all calling for the council to reconsider.
However, Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State for the Home Department, was already informed about a possible ban at a meeting last week. Therefore, there was an opportunity to take this to Starmer and his ministers, who could have had more power then to take action against the Council before it was announced and implemented.
The Prime Minister is in charge and he should have the power to put pressure on Birmingham Council. He must not bury his head in the sand and allow this to go ahead, especially when he feels strongly against it. As an avid Arsenal supporter, he should know that football is a community of togetherness and diversity, not division.
Could you imagine the outrage if the team were Palestinian? One must ask, would this decision have originally been made if fans from Palestine had been visiting Aston Villa to play a fixture? With a suspected ‘two-tier’ system in this country, probably not.
Jack Watson is a 17 year-old schoolboy in Year 12. You can read his Substack about following Hull City FC here. Follow him on X here.
Stop Press: An ex-Hezbollah fighter is said to be behind an anti-Israel dossier that “laid the groundwork” for police to block Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Stop Press 2: The planned ban by West Midlands Police on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is showing off Britain at its worst, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
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Israel is not in Europe. It’s located south of a region which was commonly known as Asia Minor before the Turks conquered it, with the Bosporus separating Europe from Asia in the south-east. But – much to the chagrin of many a British citizen – Great Britain is as it’s located on the western continental shelf of Europe and wasn’t even an island until the current interglacial was well underway (it’s estimated that it became an island around 6500BC).
Israel plays in Europe because Arabs won’t play nicely. I’m sure the Israelis would be happy to play more locally,but murderous Arabs make it a little challenging.
“But – much to the chagrin of many a British citizen – Great Britain is…”
Britain is in Europe geographically, but the British are not European.
The English are not European Union pawns, but the Westminster Bubble, backed up by the Whitehall Machine, thinks they should be.
Germany, the powerhouse of the European Union, has run out of fuel, quite literally. And Brussels acts as though all is well.
Tres Amusant!
I didn’t have to go far to find a relevant article:
Europe’s Terminal Decline: The Philosopher Queens and their Ruinous Rule
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2025/10/19/europes-terminal-decline-the-philosopher-queens-and-their-ruinous-rule
Doshi’s articles about anything EU-related aren’t usually worth reading as they’e basically anti-European ranting by someone who has a European title for some weird reason but who isn’t European and which aren’t clouded by any factual knowledge about his supposed topic¹. This starts with him not being willing to understand that the Brussel dump for useless politicians isn’t the government of the EU because the EU isn’t a state.
¹ A German idiom, von keinerlei Sachkenntnis getrübt, sarcasm, as factual knowledge about a subject (Sachkenntnis) isn’t usually supposed to cloud someone’s opinion about it.
As a mixture of Angles, Saxons and French Normans with some remains of the originally Celtic population at the fringes, they decidedly are.
Addition: I’m assuming you weren’t alluding to the fact that the UK is nowadays heavily colonized by people from Africa, India and the Caribbean who doubtlessly aren’t European.
Neither is the Middle East, but we pander to that lot.
You may feel that Israel should not be eligible for European competitions, but that is not relevant here.
The fact is that they are entered and so must be given the same treatment as any other national side.
I ‘feel’ that the command of basic geography of this young man is somewhat lacking. Actually, I don’t just feel that. It is lacking.
Jack Watson is absolutely right.
The police are constantly demonstrating where their loyalties lie and the evidence just never stops coming. Shame on these dhimmi scum; ”I was released from Hamas captivity in January and I am a die hard fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I am shocked to my core with this outrageous decision to ban me, my family and my friends from attending an Aston Villa game in the UK. Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite. Shame on you. I hope you come to your senses and reconsider. I do wonder what exactly has become of British society, this is like putting a big sign on the outside of a stadium saying “No Jews allowed” What has become of the UK where blatant antisemitism has become the norm? What a sad world we are living in.” https://x.com/EmilyDamari1/status/1979110626631836018 Now explain why it’s just about the Maccabi fans; ”The following English premier league clubs have all accumulated more than 3 new Football Banning Orders (FBOs) since 2020 (see below). And yet somehow it’s Maccabi Tel Aviv who get a complete club ban from travel to Aston Villa. Manchester… Read more »
2 Tier Everything!
It’s a hideous and depressing situation, it really is. Have any Muslim MPs even spoke out in opposition to this ban? Actually, I’m not sure I’d believe they were sincere even if they did. Politicians lie like they breathe anyway, but I think the Muslims ( with their loyalty to the Ummah ) are on another level. I think the only time I can trust what a Muslim MP says is when they’re off one one, hating on Israel; ”I do see Muslims as human I also see Israelis as human The game being played here is a very dangerous one. If you refuse to hate Israel you are racist or Islamophobic? I think we need some proper debate on this. We cannot live in a society where the EXISTENCE of a people is toyed with in this way. Israel exists and to suggest it shouldn’t is a call to genocide. Suggesting that anyone who disagrees is racist is a wicked game to play. I have no problem with the existence of the 57 Muslim states. It just is. I wish them peace and harmony. No one should have the right to demand the elimination of the Jewish state and… Read more »
It’s a shame that Jack Watson didn’t say that the violence in Amsterdam was organised days in advance using WattsApp messaged that were used as evidence in court, it’s not clear if the goons behind the violence were Ajax fans or just pro-Hamas muppets.
If Maccabi fans were responsible for violence at away matches UEFA has the power to ban their fans from matches, impose a massive fine on the club and even ban them from European competitions. As this hasn’t happened the obvious conclusion is that Maccabi fans might wind up opposition fans with chants but, apart from a tiny minority of muppets, aren’t violent or at least no worse than fans from a lot of European teams.
”Only Dutch locals (not Maccabi or other Jewish fans) faced jail time for the attacks. In December 2024, an Amsterdam District Court convicted five Dutch men (aged 19–32) of public violence, assault, and inciting attacks via social media groups targeting “people of Jewish descent and/or supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv.”
No Maccabi Tel Aviv fans or other Jewish individuals were jailed for the events.
‘The public prosecution department has drawn up a list of 122 suspects who were involved in the trouble surrounding the Europa League football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax last November, broadcaster NOS reported on Wednesday.
Most of the suspects have not been identified, and most are either pro-Palestine sympathisers or troublemakers, the department said. Around 10 are Maccabi fans from Israel.’
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/03/public-prosecutor-has-122-suspects-for-maccabi-riots-nos/
And if you remember, Mossad forewarned the Dutch authorities about the planned attack and to increase security at the match but the Dutch failed to act;
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israeli-authorities-foresaw-danger-in-amsterdam-failed-to-warn-soccer-club-fans/
I didn’t know that Mossad warned the Dutch authorities that trouble was being planned.
I wonder how many of the “Dutch” men convicted or on the list of suspects are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants and how many are woke nutters of Dutch heritage.
If 10 Maccabi fans are suspected of violence this could well mean the Dutch police/legal system is as hopeless as their British counterparts and want to prosecute people who used reasonable force in self defence.
Below are the 5 “Dutchmen”, who got pitiful sentences. Of the 100+ suspects, I read elsewhere the majority were of Turkish and Iranian descent. There surely has to be some Moroccans in there too as they’re the group most over-represented in the crime stats here. They’ve not got a good reputation with the Dutch. In my daughter’s very diverse high school they also represent most of the bullies, according to her. But then I know some very nice people from Morocco so it’s important to not tar people with the same brush.
“And for reference, here are those who were jailed after Ajax-Maccabi Violence :
Sefa Ö (age 32): 6 months in prison (leading role in multiple assaults).
Rachid O. (age 26): 10 weeks in prison (inciting violence via WhatsApp group).
Umutcan A. (age 24): 1 month in prison (assaults and group attacks).
Lucas D. (age 19): 1 month in prison (assault on police and illegal firework possession).
Mohammed B. (age unspecified, between 19-32): 100 hours community service (assault and theft; conditional sentence, no jail time served).
These were the first convictions; additional trials for other suspects, including minors, are ongoing.” Spencer Joseph.
Read “Infidel” by Ayan Hirsi Ali, one of my top 5 books I’ve ever read. She highlights the problems in the Netherlands caused by mass immigration of Muslims in the 1990’s/2,000’s.
She also clearly states how she was helped to lie when applying for refugee status. She claimed asylum to escape a forced marriage. Because she didn’t want to marry the man her father chose for her she didn’t attend “her” wedding but according to Islamic law the marriage was still valid and civil authorities accepted the marriage certificate as proof she was married. She’d been living in Kenya, a safe country, for at least a year before arriving in the Netherlands so wouldn’t of been given refugee status/right to remain without lying and claiming she’d just escaped from the civil war/clan violence in Somalia.
The problems of non integration of immigrants and human rights lawyers helping people play the system have been going on for at least 30 years.
A very important point here. The police – no matter how much they are muslim-loving bunch of Two Tier slimeballs – did NOT ban the Maccabi fans from attending the match as they do not have the power to so. The Council of the Islamic City of Birmingham licence the ground under the legislation and it is they who made the decision not to allow the fans to attend. For all the other whinings and wibblings from various allegedly ‘legal’ people, the power to oppose the ban lies with Aston Villa as provided by the said legislation and it seems that we await them doing so….
I hear Prince William is a Villa fan, but he’s unlikely to speak up about something like this, isn’t he? Can you imagine the reaction from the Muslim community who are behind this ban if he did? Ha. Priceless!
The council took advice from the police before issuing the ban so the plod are equally to blame, or possibly more so as the council might not of banned the fans if the plod hadn’t of advised them it was a high risk situation.
We all know what this issue is about no need for shilly shallowing. It’s about fear, fear of a local community. It’s not the threat of the visiting fans it’s the local communities response which may put them in a bad light.
The National pacifier (dummy) for grown men, some days I wish they would put as much effort into making their country great again, rather than behaving like feral children. We can hope.
I’m not sure why an article from a Hull City supporting 17 year old schoolboy is relevant.
Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews.
Many Western governments are run and funded by Zionists.
The financial system is run by Zionists.
Hollywood is run by Zionists.
The main stream media is run by Zionists.
Zionists dictate the narrative.
The decision to ban the Israeli fans is down to the local council and the local police who know better than anyone the local area and its people.
National governments and European footballing authorities are too cowardly to the Jew lobby to do the right thing and ban Israel from ALL competitions.
It was left to locals in Aston in Birmingham to do “the right thing” by banning incendiary away fans from its local community.
Most football supporters’ clubs have a handful of thugs masquerading as lovers of ‘the beautiful game’ but… the continuing failure to identify thugs and either jail if criminal or ban from attending matches should condemn games to being played behind closed doors. Perhaps this is where facial identification has a place?