Quote Originally Posted by Newish Pie View Post
Well... I agree that I'd rather they didn't sing that, it's ambiguous... it's open to misinterpretation, and that it doesn't help their cause and is a gift to people who want to smear and misrepresent their actual views.

But I don't believe that a lot of people singing that mean it literally in the sense of wanting to see the destruction of Israel. The thing about chants and songs (as we as football fans know perfectly well), is that they're not always meant to be taken literally, that they sometimes take on a life of their own, and other people don't get to decide what they mean. There's also nothing in that song that indicates support for Hamas.

Think it's poor reasoning (at best) and a disingenuous smear (at worst) to take one song or chant and then decide that it means something other than what those singing it mean by it.
If we all meant literally what we were singing then the red side of the Trent would be a very messy place.... but people should educate themselves at least a bit to understand what is and isn't appropriate.