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With respect, anyone who calls Israel’s war ‘genocidal’ but not Hamas’ attack on October 7th 2023 lacks moral clarity or is playing with definitions.

Tel Aviv is a city whose population is 90% Jewish. That accusation of anti-semitism is childish.

Hang on, Hamas is the elected government of Gaza. It’s not a terrorist attack at all. It was actual genocide. They deliberately targeted non-combatants and civilian areas away from military targets. The IDF weren’t embedded in the Kibbutz or supernova festival.

This includes the West Bank who were more supportive of Hamas’ incursion than in Gaza… The polling was published in Dec 2023 so was conducted shortly after the events.

Was October 7th 2023 genocide?

Polling is unreliable in the West Bank and Gaza, but the data we have suggests there was widespread support for Hamas’ actions on October 7th 2023. 72% polled supported kicking this conflict off. With neighbours like that, the prospects of a peaceful two-state solution is little to none...

There were mass protests against Israel on October 8th 2023 before there was a military response. People should think about that. No, I don’t. Hamas deliberately embeds itself in civilian infrastructure. It’s not a conventional war (lik Ukraine-Russia) where there is a clear demarcation...

100% disagree. I understand a small bit of Arabic and on more than one occasion in Birmingham and London, I’ve heard the word ‘Yahoud’ be chanted at Pro-Pal demos. No social media, that’s being out and about. We literally had a Syrian migrant called ‘Jihad’ attacked a synagogue a couple of...

I don’t support any football fans being banned because the authorities should be on top of it. In any case, the UK has hosted team with much worse reputations of hooliganism and in the case of Turkish football fans, clubs who have killed English fans abroad (Galatasary). In this specific...

This is more telling about Pro-Pal demos than Israeli football fans. There’s more Italians worried about protesting the Israeli football team than actually going to the match… October 7th was an attack with genocidal intent so anyone at these demos is implicitly supporting genocide themselves...

The pertinent question is why are these fans not guaranteed safe passage in our second biggest city? There wouldn’t be concerns if Tel Aviv were playing in Oxford. The multicultural dream is that we become this melting pot with shared common values. Two ironies here: - Jenrick just got...

In this context, it is because it’s specifically referring to people coming to Birmingham for the match. There is an equivalence You wouldn’t accept it if Tommy Robinson referred to all Afghans crossing on small boats as ‘Taliban’. You would rightly denounce that as racists. In the Middle...

Israel’s civilian to combatant ratio in the death toll is lower than almost any war in recent history. So unless you consider all war as genocide, I disagree with your opening statement. The IDF is the Israeli military so it’s a byword for Israeli and Jew. The cleric chose his words carefully...

No. The Tel Aviv fans haven’t been banned because of the risk of violence with Villa fans. It’s the wider risk of disorder on the streets with ‘counter protestors’ and from Amsterdam, clashes with local residents because of Birmingham’s demographics. It’s a failure of policing if they feel...

It’s a failure of integration, for sure. Anyone calling for ‘globalise the intifada’, ‘jihad’ or ‘putting zios in the ground’ clearly does not believe in British values and parliamentary democracy. Anyone who supports extremism should be deported and this is ordinary thing for countries to do.

Of all the clubs in Europe, do you think Tel Aviv have the worst hooligans? You’re defending the indefensible here. We didn’t ban Turkish teams from visiting who had literally killed English footballs fans abroad.

Why are you putting something I didn’t say in quotation marks? That is incredibly misleading and disingenuous. You regularly go down weird rabbit holes. I stated the reason was that authorities considered the demographics made the call, you seemingly disagreed by pointing to examples of...

Funny man. Palestine still play in FIFA sanctioned matches and were in World Cup qualifying earlier in the year. You’ve got it twisted. The people being literally limited are ordinary Israeli football fans. It’s categorised as a ‘high risk’ match not because of a few hundred (if that) Tel Aviv...

Leaders from the UAE and Saudi have been warning the west for decades about the people we’re letting in. They probably won’t be now this has kicked off. In fact, it’ll say more about us if they were banned. The problem with sectarianism in our society is that people calling for ‘global...

No they wouldn’t. You need to wake up and smell the coffee that this an ugly reflection of how mass migration has changed one our major cities. British Jews report feeling less and less safe in our country and that’s correlated with the increasing sectarianism in our politics. If a city being...