LET’S cast our minds back to the build-up to the Euro football championship in 2012, co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland. There was only one story in the mainstream media then: both countries were hotbeds of Nazism and anti-Semitism, said the BBC’s investigative documentary Stadiums of Hate, andneither of them should have been allowed to host the tournament. Fans were warned by ex-England footballer Sol Campbell to stay at home or ‘ you could end up coming back in a coffin ’. The story gathered momentum among other Western media, provoking last-ditch efforts by footballing nations to have the tournament moved....
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
