By Daphne Anson
“There should be no racism in football” says the first interviewee in this Alex Seymour video from outside the Wembley Stadium before the FA Cup Final last week in which Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 2:1.
No, indeed. And that sentiment should extend to the Israel-haters who spend so much of their time working to get Israel thrown out of FIFA.
To quote the maker and uploader:
“Manchester United playing against Crystal Palace, two teams with Football Against Apartheid supporters amongst their fans. We were at the magnificent stadium at Wembley to leaflet and spread the word amongst football’s devotees that Israel, as the only country in the world currently practicing apartheid in both sport and in day to day life, should not be allowed to get away with it and has to be penalized where it will most affect the man in the Tel Aviv street, by being excluded from FIFA, as part of the general BDS campaign to free the people of Palestine from the yoke of Israel’s near 50 year occupation.”
There’s a particular irony in all this. Something to do with violations of human rights. I’m drawing attention to it, inter alia, on my blogpost on Elder of Ziyon this Tuesday. So please watch that space. (Update: See here)
Meanwhile, even the BBC is not hiding this example of anti-Jewish racism
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