{"id":288596,"date":"2025-11-28T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288596\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:48:13","slug":"sammy-wilson-dup-mp-referred-to-standards-watchdog-for-claims-english-police-bowed-to-muslim-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288596\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Wilson: DUP MP referred to standards watchdog for claims English police bowed to Muslim \u2018pressure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pro-Israel supporters at Villa Park earlier this month and (inset) Sammy Wilson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7ae82004-14f8-44ea-b1c3-29d3a06bb661.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pro-Israel supporters at Villa Park earlier this month and (inset) Sammy Wilson<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A DUP MP has been referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after claiming English police bowed to pressure from \u201cMuslim politicians and Muslim thugs\u201d for banning Israeli football fans from a fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson made the comments at Westminster on Monday during a debate on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being excluded from a Europa League fixture against Aston Villa earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel supporters at Villa Park earlier this month and (inset) Sammy Wilson A DUP MP has been referred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86358,16669,59,57,58,9084,50,117073,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-abdullah-sabri","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sammy-wilson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}