The combined Maccabi thread - now with are you going? poll

[Percy McCarthy]

A quick search of the internet would suggest that their clubs anthem is about the colours they play in?

Maybe Mr EK94227386, who appears to post obsessively and exclusively about Israel, isn't quite the trusted source you'd naturally assume they would be.

I’ve seen and heard them sing that one above, and the one about ‘no schools left in Gaza’, unless it was AI.

[spartacuss]

Can't quite get my head completely around the way (anti-Villa) Tommy Twonames is feted in Israel.  A country that was partially built as a recoil from fascism/nazism entertaining a man who leads groups in the UK that are stuffed with anti-semites.  Similarly, Netanyahu's love-ins with Victor Orban of Hungary - an out and proud anti-semite who won his elections with vile anti-semitism.

Perhaps the prediction of Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt ("The Origins of Totalitarianism"; "The Banality of Evil") when they warned in their letter to the New York Times in December 1948 about the way the violence and terrorist tactics the Irgun and Stern Gang were using against the Arab population, would have a distorting and destructive quality to the morality of Israel.  Basically, Israel would drift into fascism while initially, and ironically, be supposedly at polar opposites to it.

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A quick search of the internet would suggest that their clubs anthem is about the colours they play in?

Maybe Mr EK94227386, who appears to post obsessively and exclusively about Israel, isn't quite the trusted source you'd naturally assume they would be.

I’ve seen and heard them sing that one above, and the one about ‘no schools left in Gaza’, unless it was AI.

I wonder why they sing it in English? Bunch of weirdos.

[dekko]

Robinson et al are ethno-nationalists, and Israel is an ethno-nationalist project.  The far right (even outright neo-nazis in some cases) love Israel because it's the model of society they want here.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Yes I’m definately going. Either the away fan ban will stand or they’ll be ridiculous numbers of police and pre/post match fan segregation. All the hooliganism of the 70’s and 80’s didn't stop me and this won’t.

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[Dave P]

Confirmed that Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be selling tickets to their fans for the game.

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Its part of his Yankification. We don't have a tradition of Jeudo-Christian thinking as our Prods were quite happy post Civil War and we sent the barmies t'colonies where their plurlaism could develop differently, given the enlightenment ideas would mould differently and...fast forward to pre-WWII and you get Jeudo-Christian thinking. Quite wholesome to develop a civic religion to attack Nazis and then the Godless Reds.

Given the Cold War shaped the US so starkly and JC evangelicalism took off, you that fuelling the GOP and Trumpism now.

It feels weird because it looks like it should be familiar, but its alien to the Brits. Robinson is on the darker side of that weaponisation because he's following an American archetype.

[brontebilly]

A quick search of the internet would suggest that their clubs anthem is about the colours they play in?

Maybe Mr EK94227386, who appears to post obsessively and exclusively about Israel, isn't quite the trusted source you'd naturally assume they would be.

Forget the internet, where's your evidence of "holocaust trivialising on this thread alone"?

[aj2k77]

Looking forwards to hammering these twats.

[brontebilly]

I see Tommy two Names is going to be in attendance.

Somewhat ironically he travels on an Irish passport! Plenty who have recently starting waving Israeli flags at Windsor Park in Belfast also do.

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A quick search of the internet would suggest that their clubs anthem is about the colours they play in?

Maybe Mr EK94227386, who appears to post obsessively and exclusively about Israel, isn't quite the trusted source you'd naturally assume they would be.

Forget the internet, where's your evidence of "holocaust trivialising on this thread alone"?

Martyn Smith calling it Holocaust-Falavour. Don't worry, you didn't post any holocaust trivialising things, you just drew on more classic anti-semitic tropes with your "new world order" comment.

[Halfway to Moseley]

Looking forwards to hammering these twats.

Looking forward to it being over. What a shitshow. And now Maccabi and their angelic fans have been allowed to take the moral high ground.

[Nunkin1965]

Where's the "I'm not going although ive got a ticket but I'll be in Portugal on holiday" option?

[Meanwood Villa]

Confirmed that Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be selling tickets to their fans for the game.

https://news.sky.com/story/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-will-not-be-able-to-buy-tickets-to-aston-villa-match-13454141

[aj2k77]

Why is it being portrayed as Jewish fans being banned from Villa Park? If you are Jewish and Villa you are welcome. If you are Jewish and sing about dead children you cant.

Why is it so important for the Government that they find whatever resources necessary to make sure racists can attend a game of football? This Labour government is appalling. I've been Labour 90% of my life, not voting for them again.