It’s perhaps still too early to tell if the Jewish and Muslim communities, here in Britain and indeed throughout the world, were brought closer by the actions of the former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq.
How refreshing it is to see the quaint concept of proof being demanded before a man’s life is ruined
Rafiq, you will remember, in November 2021 went to hear in person from Holocaust survivor Ruth Barnett, 86, about her experience of being on the receiving end in Nazi Germany of what you’d probably have to say was on balance worse than anything you could possibly experience in or around a cricket ground.
He did this, no doubt at the panicked behest of his PR advisors, when the accusations of racism he’d aimed at former England captain Michael Vaughan appeared to have blown up comically in his face after the discovery of gnashingly anti-Semitic posts he’d made on Facebook: ‘Hahaha he is a jew… probs go after my 2nds again ha… how wrong is tht?? Only jews do that sort of shit ha’, he’d typed.
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