This sounds all very true and recognisable. Contrast this however with the Glasgow Celtics fan club that waves mammoth flags for Palestine at their matches in defiance of the management and the FA. Compare it to the people of Durham who are forever turning out on marches to protest the injustice and damage being inflicted upon Palestine and Palestinians. Compare it to Brampton, Cumberland - a very, very white town - who welcomed Basque refugees in 1936-38 (agreed they were 'communists' not 'Arabs'). Far be it from me to deny the grotesque white racism in the UK, but there is a scattered archipelago of decency to be found, even now.