Premier League clubs are wary of being seen to take sides in the Middle East conflict and are awaiting guidance from the league over how to commemorate the victims of the attacks in Israel. While the Israeli flag was beamed on to 10 Downing Street and City Hall in London in tribute to the hundreds of people killed by Hamas last week, there has been silence from English football. The situation was not acknowledged at Premier League fixtures last weekend and clubs are yet to make public statements expressing sympathy towards Israel. The Football Association has also not decided whether to hold a minute’s silence before England’s men play Australia in a friendly at Wembley on Friday night. Some members of the UK’s Jewish community believe football should display more urgency around a show of solidarity. It has been noted that clubs have sent messages of condolences in response to a number of global tragedies in the past. Barry Frankfurt of Jewish Gooners, a group for Arsenal’s Jewish fans, told the Guardian: “In recent years, football has been good at recognising causes and events that impact on fans and acknowledging or commemorating them accordingly. “This is what makes football’s response to the terrorist massacre in Israel all the more shocking, if not necessarily surprising. Antisemitism has long been the racism on which the football world is silent. But when more Jews die on any single day since the Holocaust, that silence is deafening.” Some Premier League clubs believe it would be appropriate to hold minute’s silences before domestic fixtures that follow the international break this month. The league is yet to adopt a position but has time to make a decision, with the next round of fixtures not taking place until the weekend of 21-22 October. But it is understood that concerns have been expressed in private over clubs being accused of taking sides in an issue as divisive as the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Talks are set to take place over a response, with clubs preferring to reach a general consensus and take guidance from the league instead of making their own plans. No club has been willing to break from the pack and release their own statement. The situation could change if the government goes ahead with plans to hold a minute’s silence in honour of Israeli citizens who lost their lives, raising pressure on sporting bodies to follow suit and organise their own tributes. The FA is in talks over how to respond when England play Australia. Figures outside the FA fear a minute’s silence would be met with unrest inside the ground. An alternative solution could involve lighting the Wembley arch in the colours of Israel’s flag.