I find all of this quite an odd and difficult thing to read through. There is clearly a genocide going on in Gaza and there is absolutely no question in my mind that MTA fans are violent hooligans that shouldn’t be allowed near Villa Park based on past behaviour.
I equally don’t think, based on his past employment or otherwise, that Eliot has to answer for the Israeli state and its actions. I know that isn’t people’s ACTUAL expectation but it has felt like it at times. Coming onto a site and slagging off most people, including Dave W who I think is generally quite level headed and lets most things around here run their course, seems stupid, but then I suppose trying to parse my understanding of things onto a guttural hatred I couldn’t understand leaves me compromised and I acknowledge I don’t understand antisemitism like a Jew would.
Indeed, some of the comments have - to my mind - veered into antisemitic tropes but that isn’t to say everyone’s have and actually there are some legitimate questions, clumsily done, that might be worth answering but I don’t see why it is Eliot’s job to do so.
I reckon on balance Eliot’s remarks aren’t brilliant and quite antagonistic but going strictly on MTA attending, he has agreed. The rest is a wider issue that I feel he and I won’t ever agree but I don’t expect him to have to answer for it.
