Genocide supporting cry-babies are scrambling to use a police error to bolster their support for Israel. Their grating shrieks comes after West Midlands police chief Craig Guildford was forced to concede AI created a major error in a report on Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans. Guildford was being questioned by MPs on 1 December 2025 when the error emerged.

The panel concerned a November 2025 ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv’s notoriously racist and violent fans attending a game against Aston Villa. The Labour government and other pro-Israel actors tried to frame the ban as antisemitic. In fact, it was a matter of public safety.

But an AI error in the cop’s intelligence reporting has handed ammunition to Britain’s genocide backers. Here’s how it went down.

Maccabi Tel Aviv storm

On 1 December, Guildford told the Home Affairs Select Committee that the techniques used to assemble the report had referenced a game which never existed:

Within my narrative, which I have compiled over the weekend, the one assertion in relation to West Ham is completely wrong.

I am told that is a result of some social media scraping that was done, and that is wrong. That was one element in a document that was eight or nine pages long, but we stand by the key tenets in the document.

Paul Kohler MP fired back:

Hold on—so you did an AI search, got something about West Ham and just whacked it into the…

Guildford responded:

No, not at all. We do a very comprehensive assessment.

That was the first time Guildford gave evidence. He faced more questions on 6 January.

January questions

Guildford was back in front of MPs on 6 January 2026. He told the panel his officers had used a Google AI to develop the intelligence report concerned, leading to an error:

The summation in the House—it was a question that was asked in the House—was that West Midlands Police may have used AI on this particular occasion. We do not use AI.

On the West Ham side of things and how we gained that information, in producing the report, one of the officers would usually go to… a system, which football officers use all over the country, that has intelligence reports of previous games.

They did not find any relevant information within the searches that they made for that. They basically Googled when the last time was. That is how the information came to be.

Select committee chair Karen Bradley said:

Was it the AI function on Google?

To which Guildford said:

I am being really candid here. I am told that they just did a Google search on that because they could not find it in the normal system.

Guildford has now apologised for the error in a letter to the committee:

In preparation for the force response to the HMICFRS inquiry into this matter, on Friday afternoon I became aware that the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot.

Both ACC O’Hara and I had, up until Friday afternoon, understood that the West Ham match had only been identified through the use of Google.

He said there had been no intention to “mislead the committee”:

I would like to offer my profound apology to the Committee for this error, both on behalf of myself and that of ACC O’Hara.

I had understood and been advised that the match had been identified by way of a Google search in preparation for attending HAC.

Naturally, this apology and explanation hasn’t dissuaded every Zionist buffoon in the UK and beyond from spinning the error to defend not only these thuggish fans, but also Israel and its genocide:

Zionist stooges spin the error

Here’s the kind of stuff that’s been said since the admission. According to home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s spokesperson, Mahmood will:

carefully consider the letter and will make a statement in the House of Commons in response later today.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tweeted last week that the Midlands police had capitulated to Islamists:

West Midlands Police capitulated to Islamists and then collaborated with them to cover it up.

They knew extremists were planning to attack Jews for going to a football match, and their response was to blame and remove Jewish people instead. They presented an inversion of reality… https://t.co/OpIQAiSCMo

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) January 6, 2026

Tory MP Nick Timothy said:

Despite denials at two separate hearings, it turns out they did use AI to produce their dodgy ‘intelligence’ dossier.

Their account of their conduct in getting Israeli fans banned from Villa Park continues to unravel.

Now let’s get to the nitty gritty.

Let’s be clear here. The cops managed to mess up an element of their own report. Leaving a huge open goal for genocide backers to score in and spin the story their way. Well done on finding out the British police are pretty rubbish at their jobs…

Anyway…

Let’s have it right. None of the police’s errors makes the ban ‘anti-Jewish’. And none of it changes the reality that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans contain a firm of violent thugs who travel around attacking communities and rival fans.

For example, nothing in the botched report alters these facts:

• the Maccabi fanbase contains Israel military-linked organised thugs.
• Their fans are so violent they have even been banned at home – IN ISRAEL – for their thuggery.
• Previous reports from 2024 found the fans actively targeted Muslims when the team played in Amsterdam.
• The Israeli club was fined for fans’ racist behaviour related to a game in Germany in 2024.
• Maccabi Tel Aviv’s chants famously call for the murder of Arabs and the destruction of Gaza.
• A recent report found racist chants in Israeli football had surged in 2025. And guess who is Top of the Pops? You know it: Maccabi Tel Aviv. Imagine being deemed a bit too racist even by Israeli standards. Awkward.

Maccabi Tel Aviv: the receipts

So let’s be frank here. Cops are not very smart. We aren’t fans either. And in this case they’ve clearly shown their penchant for fuck-ups.

But none – NONE – of the police reporting errors change the fact these fans are violent racists with a long history of attacking locals at away games. It doesn’t change the fact they’ve been fined and banned repeatedly – including in Israel. It doesn’t alter their fascistic chants, or their links to the genocidal IDF.

Needless to say, Israel backers will try and remove all of this vital context. In reality, the sum total of their discovery seems to be that the police are inept and AI is bad. Groundbreaking stuff: we recommend you sign up to the Canary newsletter to read more about these things.

And finally, over two years into a genocide against the Palestinians, we aren’t going to let Israel’s useful idiots spin this as a victory for genocidal settler-colonialism.

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By Joe Glenton

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