Through its admitted inability (or unadmitted unwillingness) to protect Israeli soccer fans from being attacked by violent antisemites , the United Kingdom is announcing to the world that it is no longer a functioning first-world nation.

Aston Villa is set to play Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League, an annual soccer competition between top European teams across multiple European leagues. The Birmingham City Council has chosen to ban fans of Maccabi under the pretense that their safety could not be guaranteed, an argument being made by both police and members of Parliament. The actual goal here is to punish Israeli soccer fans by banning them from the game because of the “genocide” in Gaza, with one member of Parliament outright stating that we must “ban all Israeli teams” bec

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