Ana Vraƒçar, People's Dispatch. (2025-11-10). Maccabi's Birmingham Match Met With Protests. popularresistance.org Protests took place in Birmingham on Thursday, November 6 as local football club Aston Villa faced Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv. The match took place after authorities banned visiting supporters over security concerns. Palestine solidarity groups and anti-racist organizations called for the match to be fully canceled, citing the violent record of Maccabi supporters and the club's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. | "Allowing football clubs from a state committing genocide and implementing apartheid to compete in international competitions normalizes its atrocities, and sends the signal that there are no consequ…