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British police have been accused of concocting false evidence to justify banning Israeli football fans from attending a Europa Cup game against Birmingham club Aston Villa in November.
The game went ahead without incident with 700 police on patrol and not a single Maccabi Tel Aviv fan in the stadium.
The Sunday Times reported this week that leaked minutes from a safety advisory group meeting show that the police procured false evidence to justify banning the Israeli fans.
It claimed it was only after the decision was challenged, that police began gathering evidence to support the decision.
“POLICE WERE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE THREAT FROM MUSLIMS”
The head of Public Policy at evangelical advocate Christian Concern Tim Dieppe writes that it was clearly threats from militant Muslims that the police were concerned about.
“This sorry story shows once again that Islam is growing in influence in the UK.”
“This time to the extent that the police will lie rather than confront Islamic demands.”
UK POLICE MISREPRESENTED THREAT FROM ISRAELI FANS
The West Midlands Police (WMP) made claims about the behaviour of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters at a game in Amsterdam in November 2024.
However, police in the Netherlands dismissed these claims as untrue or misleading.
WMP also exaggerated the police response to disorder in Amsterdam, hugely inflating the number of officers deployed from 1,200 to 5,000.
A report from the Amsterdam Ministry of Justice makes clear that the violence was targeting Israeli supporters rather than being perpetrated by them.
It also claimed “Amsterdam police deployed more than 800 officers.”
THREAT RATINGS BOOSTED WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION
Police threat ratings were changed to upgrade the threat to Muslim communities from ‘Medium’ to ‘High’, and to downgrade the risk to Israeli fans from ‘High’ to ‘Medium’ in the month before the match took place.
The Jewish community initially had a ‘Medium’ threat rating, but were not rated in the final analysis.
Tim Dieppe writes: “There was absolutely no justification for these changes.”
“It was leaders in the Muslim community who campaigned for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to be banned from attending the match in Birmingham.”
The Muslim local MP went so far as to demand the match be cancelled, launching a petition to this effect.
LOCAL MUSLIM COMMUNITY THREATENED TO ATTACK ISRAELI FANS
Part of the rationale for cancelling the match cited in the petition text was that Aston in Birmingham, is a “predominantly Muslim community” and that allowing Israeli fans to attend “poses a real risk of tensions within the community and disorder.”
Police admitted having discussions with the MP, but deny there was any political pressure on the force.
It was only when West Midlands Police’s chief constable, Craig Guildford and other senior officers appeared before the parliamentary home affairs select committee this month that he admitted he was aware that “vigilante groups” from the local community were planning to attack Maccabi Tel Aviv fans.
He refused to apologise for not mentioning this before.
POLICE MADE UP REASONS TO BAN ISRAELI FANS
Christian Concern’s Tim Dieppe writes: “They knew people were planning to commit violent crimes. Did they arrest anyone or take any other action? It seems not.”
“Rather, they made up reasons not to allow Israeli fans to attend the match.”
“The decision to ban the Israeli fans was not due to the threat posed by them, which is the case the police made in public.”
“It was actually due to the threat to the Israeli fans from the local community.”
“This was a case of deliberately seeking to blame the victims rather than admit the awful truth that they could not contemplate trying to protect Israeli fans from the local militant Muslims.”
PRESSURE ON POLICE CHIEF TO RESIGN
Pressure on Craig Guildford to resign is mounting after he deliberately misled the public and acted to avoid upsetting the militant Muslim community that he is supposed to be policing.
If he doesn’t resign, the Home Secretary has the power to dismiss him.
Tim Dieppe postulates that the real problem is Islam.
“We have a Muslim MP, Muslim councillors, and local militant Muslims who wanted Israeli fans banned.”
“Some of these local militant Muslims, we now know, and the police knew beforehand, were planning acts of violence towards Israeli fans.”
ANTISEMITIC TEACHING IN BIRMINGHAM MOSQUES
“Aston according to the latest data is 78% Muslim.”
“Furthermore, Islam is antisemitic.”
The police consulted various mosques in Birmingham with a documented history of antisemitism.
When questioned about this in Parliament the police chief denied that he was aware of this antisemitism.
“This denial is untenable. The police cannot claim to be unaware of the antisemitic teaching in these mosques,” writes Tim Dieppe.
WHO RUNS BIRMINGHAM?
“The question now is who runs Birmingham. It is clearly not the police.”
“The police, as it stands, will do anything to avoid having to confront the local militant Muslim community.”
“They will even fabricate evidence and lie about the threats to avoid this.”
“The fact is, then, that it is the militant Muslims who run Birmingham. When they raise a threat, the authorities capitulate.”
“Here, then, is the truth that gives the lie to that well-worn phrase that “diversity is our strength”, concludes Christian Concern’s Tim Dieppe.
“Diversity of this kind is our downfall.”
“The police capitulating to local Muslims is the fruit of multiculturalism.”
