Police and the local council in Birmingham, England’s “ second city ,” have cowered to the mob and banned Jewish fans from attending a soccer match.

It is a shameful, cowardly decision that comes only weeks after two people were killed during a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur.

And on Thursday, Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, Britain’s spy agency, revealed that the threat of another terror attack in the U.K. was “substantial,” adding, “sadly, the Jewish community tends to receive more than its share of interest on the part of extremists of various flavours.”

Antisemitism is running rampant in England and the decision by the police and council to ban Jewish soccer fans in Birmingham will do nothing to stop it. Indeed, it will encourage it.

Canada should pay

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