burntoakboy
“Here’s what I think: if it is not safe for Jews from Israel to attend a football match, then that football match needs to be called off. There should be no event, no venue and no street in Britain where Jews, whether British or Israeli, are not safe from the hate and the blows of anti-Israel fanatics. Historically, you’ve been able to tell a lot about a society by how it treats its Jews. By whether it ghettoises them or lets them live freely. By whether it occasionally hunts them or leaves them alone. What we can tell about Britain from the nauseating decision to ban Maccabi fans is that we now prize the happiness of Jew haters more highly than the rights of Jews. We now think it is more important to accommodate the feelings of the Israelophobic mob than to accommodate visitors from Israel. This ban feels like the sacrifice of Jewry at the altar of anti-Semitism.”
