A Greater Manchester MP has warned antisemitism is rife even at junior level in football, with reports of seven-year-old Jewish players being hissed at on the pitch as a way to replicate the noise of the gas chambers.
Bury South MP Christian Wakeford urged the Government to do 'much more' to ensure that British football players can play their 'beautiful game' without being subjected to unacceptable abuse.
Speaking during a Westminster Hall debate on antisemitism and other forms of racism in football, Mr Wakeford warned there are examples of antisemitism everywhere in football, even at junior level.
He described the reports of young Jewish players being hissed at by their opponents as 'truly shameful, shocking and abhorrent'. READ MORE: Man arrested after iconic pagoda vandalised in Manchester's Chinatown Mr Wakeford, who defected to Labour from the Tory Party earlier this year, said: "Even at grassroots and junior football, I have heard local reports from Maccabi (A sports and community club in Prestwich), whose Jewish players, some only seven years of age, being hissed at by players on the opposite side, which was to replicate the noise of the gas chambers.
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