Removing Israeli teams from UEFA competitions/Boycotting the Maccabi TA game

[Martyn Smith]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx204j7x4pqt?post=asset%3A0750b174-d46d-4650-bd95-b58f3c6f9090#post

Greens...getting it right again...

You say getting it right again..  The Green representative who provided the quote in your link is the same person who dismissed October 7th as people having 'a right to fight back'.

Polanski must have been too busy trying to grow some tits to comment.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Sexual Ealing]

Probably the one thing that Polanski is famous for, would be my guess.

[Brazilian Villain]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx204j7x4pqt?post=asset%3A0750b174-d46d-4650-bd95-b58f3c6f9090#post

Your Party not asked their opinion.  I guess we aren't making enough noise yet for the gnat's attention span press to ask

Can't think why. https://x.com/thisisyourparty/status/1976209684253294650

[Mister E]

The media feeding frenzy over the MTA game has now ensured that the ground will become a magnet for Tommy nine-names' acolytes and the Stop the Genocide protesters. My guess is it may become an afternoon game played behind closed doors.

What an irony that the timing of the announcement couldn't have been better-timed as we plan to take on Spurs ...

[PeterWithesShin]

Your Party @thisisyourparty
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16h

Well done to Ayoub and all those who successfully campaigned for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to be barred from attending the match at Aston Villa!

No business as usual with a genocidal state.

Boycott, divest, sanction!

[Martyn Smith]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx204j7x4pqt?post=asset%3A0750b174-d46d-4650-bd95-b58f3c6f9090#post

Your Party not asked their opinion.  I guess we aren't making enough noise yet for the gnat's attention span press to ask

Can't think why. https://x.com/thisisyourparty/status/1976209684253294650

Without having seen it, I'm guessing it's not one that follows the narrative. Too much emphasis on the plight of brown-skinned people

[PeterWithesShin]

Letter aren't enough.

Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit them hard and hit them fast with a major; and I mean major; leaflet campaign

[tomd2103]

Your Party @thisisyourparty
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16h

Well done to Ayoub and all those who successfully campaigned for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to be barred from attending the match at Aston Villa!

No business as usual with a genocidal state.

Boycott, divest, sanction!

Sorry, from that it seems like it is nothing to do with safety and is instead about banning Israeli fans from.attending the game as part of a wider boycott of their country?

[Martyn Smith]

The media feeding frenzy over the MTA game has now ensured that the ground will become a magnet for Tommy nine-names' acolytes and the Stop the Genocide protesters. My guess is it may become an afternoon game played behind closed doors.

What an irony that the timing of the announcement couldn't have been better-timed as we plan to take on Spurs ...

I think BCD is the best course of action here, tbh (TM abbrevs - Ed). You have to remember that even with no MTA fans present, our knobend faction will be and might be up for a bit of intra fan aggro...
And...I'm sure entirely unmaliciously and unconsciously, you're conflating Jewish with Israel here. Many Jewish people, some highly orthodox, have made public their opposition to Israel's genocide

[Martyn Smith]

Your Party @thisisyourparty
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16h

Well done to Ayoub and all those who successfully campaigned for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to be barred from attending the match at Aston Villa!

No business as usual with a genocidal state.

Boycott, divest, sanction!

Sorry, from that it seems like it is nothing to do with safety and is instead about banning Israeli fans from.attending the game as part of a wider boycott of their country?

There are many sides to the issue here, and I've tried to cover them the best I can in my letter to the UKFPU. I do firmly believe that Israeli teams should have been banned from European competition for the same reason that Russian teams are. The UN declaration that Israel is committing genocide should have been sufficient

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Well if we're asking the opinion of "Your Party", we should probably just ban women from attending too.

[Martyn Smith]

Well if we're asking the opinion of "Your Party", we should probably just ban women from attending too.

Er, what?...

[VILLA MOLE]

I have got tickets for this and I am taking my boy who is 12 .  I am a bit concerned about bringing him .  We walk up from just by the ring road (part of our routine ) not sure I fancy taking him if there is potential trouble on the fringes

[Drummond]

So, going back to the beginning of the thread. They've not been banned.

Who's boycotting?

I just don't want to go, because this shitstorm is only getting worse.

It's been hijacked by people claiming antisemitism. And Islamists. And Pro-Palestine protestors. And right wing bigots. And X Wankers.

It seems like every single one of the fuckers has an opinion, and doesn't have any knowledge of the Villa, of Aston, of the community. And then there's those deflecting by trying to blame Starmer, Hopkins, Farage, Yaxley-Lennon, Netanyahu et al.

Ultimately this game would have attracted the wrong sort of attention, and now it'll attract even more. Any football-related violence will be badged as antisemitic or Islamophobic, and the violent perpetrators will get off scot-free.

Villa are the losers in this. And we all knew it was coming.

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Probably the one thing that Polanski is famous for, would be my guess.

You guess right.