It really is awful and it's galling to see it and nothing being about it.
I remember back in October when Aston Villa were playing Tel Aviv Macabi-the Jewish fans were banned under claims that they would be violent. In actuality, it was over fears of the Muslim crowd (despite many not even supporting Aston Villa) would get out of control of the police. 700 officers were deployed that night.
Luckily, only 250-300 men showed up to "protest" when they were promising crowds of 300,000 men. A Muslim MP was promoting this, too and is still allowed to stand as an MP.
The people that showed up to counter-protest had to be placed behind metal fencing in case it got violent. The football team had to travel in the same bus as the Aston Villa team in case they were attacked.
The best thing about that night was the Aston Villa fans coming out and chanting "Stick your Palestine up your arse!" that was amusing.
It's clear the police and other authorities are scared of this community. So, they bow down to them. Let them get away with stuff no one else would. But this is just emboldening the worst of them.
I, for one, am sick of hearing about foreign conflicts and sick of the whole fucking thing. Once upon a time, we didn't have to deal with this shit and didn't have to have bollards of peace around Christmas markets or armed guards manning them, either.
It just pisses me off at this point.