{"id":212028,"date":"2025-12-30T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:27:09","slug":"birmingham-council-leader-to-give-evidence-over-maccabi-fan-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212028\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham council leader to give evidence over Maccabi fan ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his letter to Ms Bradley, Mr Guildford also addressed comments from Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Mike O’Hara<\/a> made during the previous committee meeting, which appeared to imply members of the Jewish community had agreed with the ban.<\/p>\n

Mr Guildford said his deputy sought to clarify his position when he told the committee feedback from a community impact assessment made clear “there were a range of faiths, backgrounds and ethnicities that were very concerned about this fixture”.<\/p>\n

The chief constable confirmed there was no documented feedback from Jewish representatives before the decision was communicated which expressed support for the ban.<\/p>\n

However, he added: “Since the session took place, ACC O’Hara has been approached by members of the Jewish community who expressed that they agree with the SAG decision. <\/p>\n

“Understandably, many community members chose to share their views privately, offering their support in confidence.”<\/p>\n

He claimed the force had “strong and positive relationships with the local Jewish community” and that Mr O’Hara had clarified his position via email when contacted by the chair of Birmingham and West Midlands Jewish Community, Ruth Jacobs.<\/p>\n

“This apology was very graciously accepted and subsequently shared with the community,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his letter to Ms Bradley, Mr Guildford also addressed comments from Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Mike O’Hara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-212028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}