Soccer, more appropriately named football (soccer players actually use their feet), is very important to the English people and the United Kingdom at large. But if the Birmingham City Council in England refuses to reverse its decision banning fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending their team’s Nov. 6 Europa League game against English Premier League club Aston Villa, tournament supervising body UEFA should suspend Aston Villa from the tournament.

Welcoming the current decision to ban away fans, one member of parliament for Birmingham, Ayoub Khan, stated, “From the moment that the match was announced, it was clear that there were latent safety risks that even our capable security and police authorities would not be able to fully manage.”

Khan is a fanatic and a liar. He is taking this position not because it represents any prudent judgment but rather because he obviously hates Israelis and, based on his prior questioning that 1,000 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, apparently also hates Jews. Sadly, Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears unwilling to stand up against this member of his Labour Party. Starmer told Jewish News on Thursday that “we will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets … action is what matters, and we’re absolutely........

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