A century ago, the British response to Arab violence against Jews was to reward it: the Hebron massacre of 1929 resulted in the authorities of the British Mandate agreeing to limit the presence of Jews in the Jewish homeland.
Apparently, nothing has changed.
Officials in Birmingham have banned fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s soccer team from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa—because, the local police have said, anti-Semites have threatened violence against Jewish attendees. One option, of course, would be to protect the Jews from that violence, but the police have apparently dismissed that possibility.
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