The Football Association can summon the political will to support Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ rights. This is correct, because black lives do matter, as do those of LGBTQ+ people. Football is for everyone. Yet when it comes to the massacre of Jews, the FA equivocates. Why?
Days after more than one thousand Israelis, the vast majority of whom civilians, were butchered by Hamas terrorists, while more than 100 are held hostage, the FA has refused to light Wembley’s famous arch in blue and white — the colours of the Israeli flag. It also rejected an idea to show the colours of Jewish prayer, a decision described as “mind-blowing” by Lord Mann, an adviser to the Government on anti-Semitism.
