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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

12/03 Links Pt1: The World After Israel’s Longest War; Over 300 rabbis and Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes; Casket with apparent hostage’s body returned to Israel, as final 2 families await ID

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The World After Israel’s Longest War
The famous story about Lot’s wife being turned into a pillar of salt has a particular lesson, according to the late British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. It’s fine to look back—even at Sodom—but not while you’re walking out of it. When entering a better future, keep your eyes forward. It ensures you’ll go in the right direction.

I’ve been thinking about this during my time in Israel this week. For most of the October 7 war, Jews had two stock responses to questions like “How are you?” There was the normal polite response to those in our professional lives and then there was the response when Jews asked each other this question: “Well, you know.”

That second response is starting to go out of style. Since the cease-fire deal returned nearly all hostages or their remains to their loved ones and IDF reservists to their everyday lives, “How are you?” has once again become a legitimate question. That is especially palpable here in Israel, for all the obvious reasons.

Israelis are looking forward, but that doesn’t mean the recent past is forgotten. Quite the opposite: Here former hostages speak to reporters regularly to make clear the whole truth of the war and its toll. Nova festival survivors have banded together to heal as a community and to educate the rest of the country on what they have discovered about themselves in the process. Faces of Hamas’s victims are still visible on walls and windows. The political and military echelons are daily facing calls for accountability, and steps in that direction have begun.

But this is all in the service of looking forward. Israelis are deciding what shape their national future will take, who they will be as they emerge from their longest war. This country is always building, always clearing its own path ahead.

You know who isn’t moving on? Israel’s enemies, specifically those who have made Gaza their personality. And I don’t mean the people of Gaza, who are prevented from rebuilding by Hamas. I mean the Western politicians, activists, donors. and others who have nothing to motivate them to get out of bed in the morning without the hope of a Hamas resurgence and permanent war in Gaza.

The best current example of this is the crackup of the British left. The Labour Party governs the country (for the moment) and yet is in a zombie-like state. Other parties to its left are gaining, and new parties are forming, none more perfectly Gaza-obsessed than former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s party, named Your Party. (The name was a placeholder but is now official. The jokes tell themselves.)
UNRWA in Gaza Has Been Replaced; It’s Time to Shutter the Agency
The UN Relief and Works Agency — or UNRWA — in Gaza has been replaced by over a dozen other aid organizations. UNRWA’s decades-long monopoly on aid and services has finally been broken, presenting a rare opportunity for deradicalization and, eventually, peace.

What’s more, the international community now has a model for how to replace UNRWA everywhere it operates, not just in Gaza.

The UN Security Council approved President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a “Board of Peace” on November 17 that will oversee the deradicalization of Gaza and the dismantlement of Hamas’ terror state. But Trump’s vision will not succeed until UNRWA is shuttered.

UNRWA was created with a temporary mandate after Israel’s 1947-1948 War of Independence to provide aid and services to approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs displaced by the war.

Over the past 75 years, UNRWA’s mandate has ballooned. Not only does UNRWA continue to provide a myriad of services in the jurisdictions where Arab refugees from 1948 immigrated, but refugee status has been passed from generation to generation. As a result, what was a relatively small refugee population in 1948 (compared to other 20th century refugee populations) is today a large and growing 21st century refugee population with no end in sight. UNRWA counts 5.9 million Palestinian refugees and has an annual budget of over a billion and half dollars.

UNRWA schools teach the belief that Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants would all return to the modern state of Israel — an outcome that would immediately erase Israel’s Jewish majority.

The focus on “return,” coupled with the well-documented glorification of terror and incitement — including arithmetic problems involving numbers of Palestinian “martyrs,” antisemitic tropes, and naming schools and soccer fields after suicide bombers — has produced generations of indoctrinated and radicalized Palestinian children.


Casket with apparent hostage’s body returned to Israel, as final 2 families await ID
The Red Cross transferred the body of a presumed hostage from Hamas to Israeli security forces in Gaza on Wednesday evening, as the families of the final two deceased hostages held in the Strip await the return of their loved ones for burial after over two years in captivity.

After the casket was handed over, it was brought into Israeli territory and taken to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups did not provide the identity of the hostage they handed over, which they said was found in a joint search effort conducted in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya earlier Wednesday.

If the body is confirmed to belong to a hostage, it would mean that the remains of one hostage are still held in Gaza — either police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili or Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.

Gvili and Rinthalak were among the 251 hostages taken on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists rampaged through southern communities, murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

The bodies of 26 deceased hostages have been returned to Israel gradually, without any assurances or fixed timeline, over the course of the past seven weeks, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire that halted the war.


Israel’s UN envoy rejects call to withdraw from Golan Heights
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed the General Assembly’s adoption on Tuesday of a resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights, declaring that the territory will forever be a part of the Jewish state.

“The UN General Assembly once again proves how disconnected it is from reality,” the envoy stated on X. “Instead of addressing the crimes of the Iranian axis and the dangerous activities of militias in Syria, it demands that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights—a vital defense line that protects our citizens.”

He concluded: “Israel will not return to the 1967 lines and will not abandon the Golan. Not now, not ever.”

Danon made the remarks after the General Assembly adopted two resolutions—one demanding a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, which the resolution refers to as “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” and the other calling on the Israeli government to give up the Golan Heights, referred to in the resolution as “The Syrian Golan.”

The Egyptian-drafted Golan Heights resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 123 to 7 (Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, United States), with 41 abstentions.


Israel sends official to talks in Lebanon
Israel dispatched an official to talks in Lebanon as “a first attempt to create a basis for economic relations and cooperation” between the two countries, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Acting National Security Council head Gil Reich “to send a representative on his behalf to a meeting with government-economic officials in Lebanon,” it said.

The representative, Uri Resnick, a senior director for foreign policy at the NSC, met “relevant Lebanese civilian representatives” in Nakura, Lebanon, along with Morgan Ortagus, the Deputy United States Special Envoy to the Middle East, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Wednesday.

“The meeting was held in a positive atmosphere and the parties agreed to work on ideas for a potential economic cooperation between Israel and Lebanon,” the statement read. “Israel made it clear that Hezbollah must be disarmed regardless of advancing economic cooperation,” it also said.

The announcement came a day after the Israel Defense Forces warned that the Hezbollah terror group is rapidly rebuilding its capabilities in Lebanon despite ongoing airstrikes since a truce took hold last year.

The ceasefire went into effect on Nov. 27, 2024 following an intense two-month IDF military campaign that led to the weakening of the Iranian proxy’s leadership. The deal was cemented by the Israeli and Lebanese governments and five mediating countries, including the United States.

The Trump administration has set Dec. 31, 2025, as the deadline for the Lebanese government to disarm the terror group, Israel Hayom cited diplomatic sources with knowledge of the matter as saying last week.


UN chief calls Israel’s conduct throughout Gaza war ‘fundamentally wrong’
There was something “fundamentally wrong” with how Israel conducted its military operation in the Gaza Strip and there are “strong reasons to believe” that war crimes have been committed, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters on Wednesday.

“I think there was something fundamentally wrong in the way this operation was conducted with total neglect in relation to the deaths of civilians and to the destruction of Gaza,” Guterres said in an interview at the Reuters Next conference in New York.

“The objective was to destroy Hamas. Gaza is destroyed, but Hamas is not yet destroyed. So there is something fundamentally wrong with the way this is conducted,” he told Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni.

Israel’s mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Guterres’s remarks.

When asked if war crimes had been committed, Guterres said: “There are strong reasons to believe that that possibility might be a reality.”

Guterres also praised the United States for being instrumental in improving aid access in Gaza: “There is an excellent cooperation in the humanitarian aid between the UN and the US, and I hope that this will be maintained and developed.”
Over 300 rabbis and Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes
Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women’s rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

The letter, which was addressed to U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres, came two weeks after Alsalem claimed in a post on X that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”

In the letter, its signatories express their “horror and outrage” at Alsalem’s rhetoric, and cite two U.N. reports from March 2024 and July 2025 that concluded that there was “reasonable grounds” to believe that sexual violence had taken place during the attacks “in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape.”

The petition was organized by Amy Elman, a professor at Kalamazoo College who has authored books on antisemitism and state responses to sexual violence, and Rafael Medoff, the director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. It was shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency soon after being sent to Guterres.

“The targeted sexual abuse of Israelis by Hamas and its supporters is one weapon in the arsenal of those seeking Israel’s obliteration,” Elman said in a statement. “It’s outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves.”

The letter’s signatories include Deborah Lipstadt, the former antisemitism envoy; Judith Rosenbaum, the head of the Jewish Women’s Archives; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, the former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rabbi Deborah Waxman, the president of Reconstructing Judaism; and Hebrew College president Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld.
UN spokesman doesn’t name Albanese but refutes controversial comment on press freedom
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, didn’t name Francesca Albanese in response to a question from JNS about the special rapporteur’s comment that appeared to partly justify an attack on journalists. But he rejected her statement in strong terms.

Albanese, whom the global body considers an independent “expert” and who has denounced Israel frequently in ways that U.S., Israeli and other diplomats have called Jew-hatred, drew criticism from across the Italian political spectrum, including the left, when she responded to an anti-Israel attack on the offices of Italian paper La Stampa on Nov. 28.

After the attack, Albanese, an Italian native, reportedly said that “we must not commit acts of violence against anyone, but at the same time this should also serve as a warning to the press to go back to doing its work.”

The comment was widely viewed as a threat that journalists should cover the war against Hamas in Gaza differently.

Dujarric told JNS during the Tuesday U.N. press briefing that, for Guterres, “it is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence wherever they may be, whether that violence is physical or whether that violence is verbal, whether they are intimidated.”

“Journalists need to be able to do their work freely, and they should never ever be intimidated,” he said.

Dujarric did not address Albanese’s comments directly, in line with a broad U.N. policy that special rapporteurs and independent “experts” appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council are beyond Guterres’ purview.


Four Israeli troops wounded in Rafah clash with terrorists
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was severely wounded, with three others sustaining lighter injuries, on Wednesday after encountering terrorists leaving a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the military said.

In the eastern Rafah area in southern Gaza, troops encountered “several terrorists who emerged from an underground terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

According to Channel 12 news, terrorists detonated an explosive device on the troops’ armored vehicle, who responded by killing two terrorists. At least one terrorist escaped through the tunnel, per the Israeli TV station report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implied that the incident constituted a violation of the terms of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

“I wish a speedy recovery to our brave fighters who were wounded today in the encounter in Rafah. The Hamas terrorist organization continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and carries out terrorist attacks against our forces. Our policy is clear: Israel will not tolerate the targeting of IDF troops and will respond accordingly,” he said, according to a statement.

The injured soldiers—three in the Golani infantry unit—were evacuated for medical treatment, and their families have been notified, per the statement. The fourth is a noncommissioned officer from the Gaza Division of the IDF Southern Command, or “Firefox” Division.

“IDF troops in the Southern Command remain deployed in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,” the statement also said.


Ep. 21: Yuval Steinitz on Iron Beam and the laser defense revolution
In this episode of Mideast Horizons, Lahav Harkov and Asher Fredman speak with Dr. Yuval Steinitz, former cabinet minister and now chairman of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, about how Israeli technology has shaped the multi-front war of the past two years. Steinitz discusses how Iron Dome, developed by Rafael, has prevented mass casualties and national paralysis by maintaining an exceptionally high interception rate. He describes the recent 12-day war with Iran as “the most technological conflict ever in human history,” highlighting Israel’s surprise strikes and rapid achievement of air superiority over Tehran. Steinitz presents Rafael’s next breakthrough: the Iron Beam, the first system capable of downing rockets, missiles, mortars and drones with lasers. He outlines how the technology will push interception rates toward 100 percent while reducing the cost of each shot to only a few dollars. He also discusses deepening U.S.-Israel defense cooperation.

In the opening segment, Lahav and Asher examine instability along both the Gaza and Lebanon borders. They describe the realities on both sides of the “yellow line” inside Gaza, note Hezbollah’s increased activity a year after the Lebanon ceasefire, and address Iran’s economic and water crises. Domestically, they analyze Prime Minister Netanyahu’s unprecedented request for a presidential pardon and the political questions surrounding upcoming elections.




Arab-Israeli Expert: Hamas Set A Dangerous Trap (What the West Must Do Now)
As the ceasefire crumbles, Gaza’s war moves underground...literally. Hamas terrorists are trapped in their own tunnel networks, abandoned by leadership and starving beneath the rubble. But surrender is not an option in the world of jihad.

Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh expose the stunning reversals of fortune, the regional power plays from Qatar and Turkey and how Hamas is losing its grip both in the tunnels and on the streets of Gaza. Is this the beginning of Hamas’s collapse or the ignition point of a Palestinian civil war?

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Ceasefire or Tunnel Fire? Hamas Trapped Underground
03:25 – Families of Hamas Terrorists Demand Answers
06:40 – “Die or Surrender”: Israel’s Ultimatum
09:50 – Death of Ghazi Hamad’s Son: A Symbolic Blow
13:10 – Hamas’ Spin Machine: Martyrdom vs. Defeat
16:30 – Al Jazeera’s Role in Glorifying Tunnel Fighters
19:45 – Hamas Militias vs. Anti-Hamas Clans in Gaza
23:05 – Qatar & Turkey’s Real Agenda in Jerusalem
26:15 – The Collapse of the Arab Normalization Push
29:40 – Victory or Martyrdom: Inside the Jihadi Mindset


🚨Gaza Is Quiet But Not for Long...What Comes Next Could Be Bigger Than War
Former Israeli Gaza mayor and COGAT commander Colonel Grisha Yakubovich blows the lid off the ceasefire illusion, warning that while Israel thinks it has won while Hamas believes it is victorious...and that perception could reshape the entire Middle East. From widespread aid theft and extortion inside Gaza to the Palestinian Authority’s slow collapse in the West Bank, Yakubovich reveals a terrifying future: a rising “third intifada,” a looming Palestinian civil war and a West that keeps rewarding terror while punishing Israel. He lays out a bold, controversial plan for Gaza’s next chapter that challenges every Western narrative and forces viewers to confront the brutal reality of what comes next.


Trump Muslim Brotherhood POWER PLAY: Why excluding QATAR and TURKEY is the RIGHT MOVE!
Erin Molan admits she was initially skeptical of Trump’s new Muslim Brotherhood policy and called it "toothless" — until FDD analyst Mariam Wahba walked her through the strategy step-by-step.

In this episode 58, Erin Molan sits down with Mariam Wahba of FDD, who explains why Trump’s so-called “weak” or “symbolic” action is actually a strategic first strike — and why critics may have completely misunderstood how the Muslim Brotherhood operates across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and Turkey and WHY Trump's EO is the ONLY way forward.

Before the interview, Erin and Tali Shine break down the headlines:
• Celebrities melting down over ICE using their songs
• Selective outrage from Sabrina Carpenter, Selena Gomez & Madonna
• Media double-standards over Trump’s health vs Biden
• Why Trump’s stamina is actually his political superpower

Then Mariam explains:
• Why the MB can’t be “banned” as one entity
• How the chapter-by-chapter strategy works
• What Qatar & Turkey’s role really is
• The Brotherhood’s media empire & cognitive warfare
• Whether the West is finally waking up

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Erin & Tali intro + matching outfits
2:00 Celebrities vs ICE: “inhumane, evil, disgusting?”
6:00 Trump’s health & media hypocrisy
10:45 Mariam Wahba Interview
35:20 Fan feedback + Erin’s closing


Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous antisemite in American history (w/Josh Hammer)
Why are so many in a conservative movement that looked to a passionate Christian Zionist like the late Charlie Kirk for leadership now willing to turn a blind eye to or even rationalize the antisemitism of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes? That is the question that JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin has been pondering in recent months in the wake of Carlson hosting Fuentes on his podcast and the Heritage Foundation’s perplexing loyalty to the former Fox News host.

He’s joined in this week’s episode of Think Twice by Newsweek senior editor-at-large and podcaster Josh Hammer who was personally acquainted with Kirk and other leader conservative figures. He says it’s outrageous that Kirk is being portrayed by some on the right as a foe of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he was, in fact, merely critical of some tactical decisions made by Jerusalem, not its war goals or of Zionism. Moreover, he was a fervent opponent of antisemitism and a friend of the Jewish people.

Hammer is similarly troubled by the way the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative think tank and its president Kevin Roberts have refused to disavow Carlson, whom he labeled as “the most dangerous antisemite in American history.” He says Carlson deserves that distinction because of his mainstream appeal and strong connections to Republican leaders. He believes Carlson’s Jew-hatred is made obvious by the fact that antipathy for Israel and even Judaism has become the organizing principle of his advocacy. His goal is not so much to break up the U.S.-Israel alliance but to write Judaism out of Western civilization and, as a result, destroy President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and replace it with something that is openly anti-Israel and antisemitic.

At the heart of the problem with conservative neutrality about Carlson and other even more extreme antisemites is their abhorrence for “gatekeeping” and the left’s tactics of canceling people they disagree with. But Hammer argues that there’s nothing wrong with maintaining boundaries between mainstream opinion and extremists and hatemongers.

Hammer believes that at some point, Vice President JD Vance, who is a close friend of Carlson and whose presidential ambitions for 2028 are no secret, is going to have to make a firm statement about his opposition to antisemitism and distinguish himself from the anti-Israel faction on the far right.


‘Extraordinary revelations’ on Tony Burke’s ISIS bride cover-up
Sky News host Sharri Markson reveals Tony Burke told a private meeting of home affairs officials that he would not block the return of ISIS brides.

Ms Markson said Tony Burke wanted the entire matter “kept out of the media”.

“These extraordinary revelations directly contradict both Burke and Anthony Albanese's repeated claims that they knew nothing about the return of the ISIS bodies and played no role in it.”


Hillary Clinton Warns Youth Being Misled by ‘Totally Made Up’ Narratives About Gaza, Israel
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a stark warning this week, arguing that young Americans are increasingly turning against Israel because they are consuming misleading and often fabricated social media content about the Gaza war.

Speaking at an Israel Hayom summit in New York, Clinton said that young people were being influenced by “totally made up” videos depicting alleged Israeli actions in Gaza, many of which she claimed were nothing more than stylized pro-Hamas propaganda.

Clinton noted that more than half of young Americans now receive their news primarily from platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, where short, highly sensationalized clips often spread faster than verified information. She warned that these platforms prioritize emotion over context, leaving users vulnerable to narratives that ignore decades of Israeli security dilemmas, Hamas terrorism, and the broader regional picture.

Clinton lamented that her attempts to have conversations with young people over the Gaza War have been fruitless, noting that students “did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.”

Her remarks reflect growing concern among pro-Israel advocates and politicians about the generational shift in US public opinion. Recent polling show that younger Americans, across political lines and even within the Jewish community, are significantly less supportive of Israel than older generations. Clinton suggested that this shift is less a product of thoughtful engagement with the conflict than of a digital information culture in which Hamas and its sympathizers have gained enormous influence.

​​”It’s not just the usual suspects. It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand. A lot of the challenge is with younger people. More than 50 percent of young people in America get their news from social media,” Clinton said.

“So, just pause on that for a second. They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information,” continued Clinton, who previously served as a US senator from New York.


NY pols pitch outlawing protests near houses of worship— after hateful anti-Israel mob descended on synagogue
New York lawmakers want to ban protests within 25 feet of houses of worship — in the aftermath of a hateful protest where a mob of anti-Israel demonstrators descended on a Manhattan synagogue chanting “death to the IDF.”

Legislation introduced by Assemblyman Micah Lasher (D-Manhattan) and Sen. Sam Sutton (D-Brooklyn) would outlaw demonstrations from taking place within 25 feet of the entrance, driveway or parking lot of a religious sanctuary.

Violators would face being charged with the crime of criminal interference with access to a place of religious worship in the first degree — a Class A misdemeanor — punishable by up to 1 year in prison.

The same 25 foot buzzer zone would apply to abortion clinics, with a potential charge of criminal interference with health care services, also punishable by up to 1 year in prison for lawbreakers.

“New York must always be a place where people can both exercise free speech and express their religious identity without fear or intimidation, and that balance broke down outside Park East Synagogue,” said Lasher, who is running for Congress in the 12th House District that includes the Park East Synagogue.

The historic Jewish temple on the Upper East Side was the site of a demonstration where hundreds of protesters chanted hateful slogans such as “globalize the intifada” and a speaker urged the “resistance” to “take another settler out.”


Amsterdam ‘Jew hunt’ victim says Villa Park ban was antisemitic
A Maccabi Tel Aviv fan who was attacked in the Amsterdam “Jew hunt” has branded the ban on the club’s supporters from Villa Park backed by West Midlands Police (WMP) as “antisemitic”, the JC can reveal.

He has spoken out as a former home secretary and other leading politicians demand the force’s chief constable resign over the controversial decision to stop the team’s away fans attending the fixture against Aston Villa last month.

The calls come after Sir Keir Starmer told the JC he was “concerned” and “troubled” over claimed inaccuracies in the intelligence that senior WMP officers used in backing the ban.

WMP Chief Constable Craig Guildford admitted on Monday that a match supposedly involving Maccabi fans cited by the force in a report used to justify the ban never took place.

Last week, the JC revealed that the mayor of Amsterdam “did not recognise” claims attributed to Dutch officials by WMP that up to 600 Maccabi fans had been responsible for violent and offensive behaviour in the city in November 2024 when the club played Ajax.

Now a Maccabi fan who was one of the dozens of Israeli supporters injured in what was later revealed to be a “Jew hunt” organised on WhatsApp in Amsterdam has told the JC of his shock over the ban from Villa Park. Raz Magnezi said: “I thought when we came back into Israel, that everybody understood what happened there.”

He rejected claims that Maccabi fans’ behaviour justified the ban, particularly in comparison with most other clubs. “Everywhere you have this minority… but they don’t represent anything,” he said.

The 26-year-old was attacked after the match against Ajax, and a driver attempted to run him down on the night. He is now too terrified to leave Israel again.

His brother was also subjected to an attack that left him with an eye injury.

Magnezi is certain what lies behind the ban and the moral inversion that portrays victims as aggressors. “I really think it is antisemitism,” he said.

On Monday, Chief Constable Guildford admitted to MPs on the home affairs select committee that a Maccabi match against West Ham United in November 2023, which was cited in a report by the force to justify the ban, never took place, blaming the error on a social media search.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said that Monday’s session “revealed a shocking series of admissions from West Midlands Police.




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