Maccabi Tel Aviv

Birmingham is the front line of the fight for the soul of our nation

When local authorities and police retreat in the face of extremists, it risks a spiral of fear and grievance. At all levels, national, devolved and local, the state needs to wake up

By Phil Rosenberg

3 min read

Masked activists put up anti-Zionist posters around Birmingham (Picture: Instagram/ deen1fied)

Hostages

Maccabi-loving former hostages Gali and Ziv Berman attend first football match since their return to Israel

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A mob of anti-Israel demonstrators clad in black and covering their faces gathered outside Villa Park stadium (Image: Roland Leon)

By Jamie Shapiro

Had I been wearing my kippah, I would have never made it back from Birmingham

3 min read

Pro-Palestinian protesters outside Villa Park in Birmingham on November 6 (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Revealed: Pro-Palestine mob plotted to hunt down Maccabi players

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Aston Villa's Ezri Konsa runs with the ball in front of a half-empty stadium during the match against Maccabi Tel Aviv (Photo: Getty)

Football

Maccabi Tel Aviv may have lost to Villa but they turned up, and showed that the people of Israel live

By Ari Sheldon

2 min read

Maccabi fans inside the basketball court where they were ushered by police (Image: Roland Leon)

By Jake Wallis Simons

As Jews were herded into a caged court, Islamists bellowed ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Villa Park was a failure of British leadership

2 min read

Maccabi Tel Aviv

‘F**k every Jew here’, rants hooded Gaza gang member at Villa Park stadium

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

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Fifty police officers sent to guard synagogues ahead of Aston Villa match

Jewish community feels ‘targeted and worried’, said one local resident

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

November 6, 2025 14:36

Police arrive ahead of the Uefa match between Aston Villa and Lille at Villa Park on April (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Israel activists plaster Birmingham in ‘zionists not welcome’ signs as city braces for Villa-Maccabi clash

West Midlands police are deploying 700 officers to cover the match, with protests against the Israeli team’s participation expected

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

November 6, 2025 13:48

West Midlands Police to deploy 700 officers for Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match

The force will use police dogs and a drone unit to ‘maintain Birmingham’s reputation as a safe and welcoming place for everyone’

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

November 6, 2025 10:58

West Midlands Police deployed 700 officers for the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match (Photo: Getty)

Former jihadi calls on ‘all Muslims’ to descend on Villa Park – but to leave guns and machetes at home

Shahid Butt added that balaclavas were not necessary either ‘unless you’ve got a bit of a sensitive job’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

November 5, 2025 17:21

Former jihadi Shahid Butt issues advice to Muslims planning to protest the Maccabi-Aston Villa match

By Fiyaz Mughal

Birmingham has a long history of social segregation and Islamism

Britain must decide whether appeasement will continue to masquerade as prudence, or whether we are ready at last to confront Islamist intimidation directly and without apology

4 min read

October 22, 2025 13:31

Asrar Rashid who said 'we will not show them rahma [mercy] in Birmingham (Picture: YouTube/ Asrir Rashid)

Truth about the toxic, fake-news driven campaign to ban Israeli fans from Birmingham

One preacher said ‘we will show them no mercy’

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

October 22, 2025 09:14

Campaign against the trip to Villa Park by Maccabi fans: Rashid (left), a post by Sadiq (centre) and Khan

Revealed: Anti-Israel views of ‘safety’ committee members who banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans

Labour’s Waseem Zaffar and Lib Dem Mumtaz Hussain both favoured excluding the Israeli team altogether

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

October 21, 2025 15:22

Waseem Zaffar MBE (left) and Mumtaz Hussain and Villa Park stadium ahead of a match (Images: Getty, X)

By The JC Leader

Britain is surrendering to mob rule – with dire consequences for Jews and our liberal democracy

Antisemitism can no longer be treated as a sporadic outrage; it is a central challenge to Britain’s civic order, with significance far beyond the Jewish community

3 min read

October 21, 2025 15:11

Supporters with Palestinian flags take part in anti-Israel demonstration on the sideline of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. (Image: Getty)

Maccabi Tel Aviv rejects tickets for Aston Villa game even if fan ban overturned

The club blamed ‘hate-filled falsehoods’ spread by ‘divisive figures’, which it said had created a ‘toxic atmosphere’ that was unsafe for its fans.

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

October 21, 2025 11:12

An empty Villa Park before kick-off of a Premier League match between Aston Villa and Arsenal at Villa Park in Birmingham on December 9, 2023 (Image: Getty Images)

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Maccabi Tel Aviv

Birmingham is the front line of the fight for the soul of our nation

Maccabi-loving former hostages Gali and Ziv Berman attend first football match since their return to Israel

Had I been wearing my kippah, I would have never made it back from Birmingham

Revealed: Pro-Palestine mob plotted to hunt down Maccabi players

Maccabi Tel Aviv may have lost to Villa but they turned up, and showed that the people of Israel live

As Jews were herded into a caged court, Islamists bellowed ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Villa Park was a failure of British leadership

‘F**k every Jew here’, rants hooded Gaza gang member at Villa Park stadium

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