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Inside the Birmingham Maccabi Football Scandal — In Conversation with Simone Schehtman
Birmingham entrepreneur and social activist Simone Schehtman reveals how misinformation and antisemitism almost kept Jewish fans out of Birmingham, and why the consequences reach far beyond football.
Recently Susan McDonnell sat down with Simone Schehtman, who is a quietly unstoppable Birmingham community leader who found herself at the centre of one of the most bewildering — and frankly frightening — episodes we’ve seen in British public life for a long time.
What started as “just” a story about football fans being barred from a match turned out to be anything but. As Simone tells it, the…
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