Chelsea & Arsenal Jewish fan condemn silence on ‘the Israel & Palestine crisis’

Chelsea and Arsenal Jewish supporter groups have condemned football's silence over Hamas's attacks on Israel, with both describing it as the 'worst atrocity in the West since the Holocaust'.

Hamas terrorists launched rocket strikes on Israel and invaded parts of the country, killing civilians and kidnapping others with swift retaliation later following.

In Israel, the death toll from Saturday's assault rose to 1,200 - making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes.

Despite this there has been silence among the football community, with no comment from FIFA and their president Gianni Infantino, while UEFA postponed all matches due to take place in Israel over the next fortnight in a statement that referenced the “current security situation,” but not the terrorist attacks and casualties on both sides.

Jewish fan groups from Arsenal and Chelsea have now hit out at football authorities in scathing statements published on X, formerly Twitter.

Jewish Gooners posted a lengthy statement in which they wrote: 'Five days after 1,200 Jews were killed in possibly the worst terrorist atrocity perpetrated in the West since the Holocaust, there has still not been a single word from the world of football.

'Not from the authorities, not from the clubs, not from the overwhelming majority of players, not from the broadcasters and not from the pundits - many of whom have previously gone to great lengths to defend the right to use their platforms to promote causes they care about.

'The reports have suggested that the football authorities are assessing how to respond to this 'complicated' or 'complex' situation. Seemingly