hago 180185T During the urgent question on Maccabi Tel Aviv, Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, said rejected claims that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had a record of hooliganism. He said that they had played a match in Turkey, where there is a lot of anti-Israel sentiment, and that this would not have been allowed to go ahead if they were disruptive. This was a claim made in an interview on Friday by Jack Angelides, the chief executive of Maccabi Tel Aviv. After the UQ was over Labour’s Ian Byrne used a point of order to point out that this was wrong. In fact, the Maccabi Tel Aviv match against Turkey’s Besiktas was moved to Hungary, and played behind closed doors, because of the security risk.
The amount of effort from the British Establishment to portray Israeli football hooligans as the victims....
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