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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 6, 2023, 10:57 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-people-looked-soccer-stars-192850733.html
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> "It's a shame that we have to look to football players as
examples for our politicians to follow in terms of how they
should address the issue," Sanaullah told Insider.
> ...
> On an international level, French officials have rejected
accusations from the UN about systemic racism in their police
forces, per Le Monde.
> ...
> Some players from the French national soccer team, on the
other hand, addressed the issue head on, without mincing words.
>
> "A bullet in the head...It's always for the same people that
being in the wrong leads to death," French goalkeeper Mike
Maignan tweeted after Merzouk's death.
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> French defender Jules Kounde was more direct.
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> "As if this latest police blunder wasn't enough, the 24-hour
news channels are taking advantage of it by making a big fuss,"
Kounde tweeted. "The 'journalists' ask 'questions' with the sole
aim of distorting the truth, criminalizing the victim and
finding extenuating circumstances where none exist. An age-old
method for masking the real problem."
>
> The sentiment was shared by young French midfielder Aurelien
Tchouameni, who said that he heard his mother's voice in Nahel's
mother's cries for her son after he was killed.
>
> In an open letter twitter thread criticizing police brutality
and French media coverage of the protests, Tchouameni questioned
the regularity of racialized police violence, the double
standard of critiquing racism in France, and asked for
solutions.
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> Underneath each of the players' tweets, fans thanked them for
speaking up.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 13, 2023, 6:15 pm
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HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/england-refuse-light-wembley-arch-095756357.html
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> The Wembley arch will not be lit in the colours of Israel and
supporters will have flags confiscated when England play
Australia on Friday night.
> ...
> Lord Triesman, the Jewish former FA chairman and ex-government
minister, said the Wembley arch “absolutely should” have been
lit in the colours of Israel’s flag.
> ...
> The FA put BLM logos on shirts & got players taking the knee
to support BLM.
>
> “BLM are currently supporting Hamas as they murder children.
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> “Now the FA won’t show solidarity with Israel by lighting
Wembley as they did for other terror attacks.
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> “Just pathetic.”
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It is logically required: the FA supports BLM; BLM supports
Hamas; Hamas is fighting against Israel; so of course the FA
would not support Israel!
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> Mark Jenkinson wrote: “ The FA are quite the outfit… BLM
support, taking the knee – and now this.”
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Do no Westerners understand logic anymore?
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: braveheart
Date: October 13, 2023, 8:39 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2023/10/13/celtic-fans-pledge-unequivocal-support-for-palestine-despite-backlash
Celtic fans pledge ‘unequivocal support’ for Palestine despite
backlash
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> The Green Brigade ultras group calls on fans to ‘raise the
Palestinian flag’ at Champions League match despite backlash
from the club’s board.
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> Fans of Scotland’s Celtic Football Club have pledged to
continue their display of solidarity with the people of
Palestine and “show the world that the club stands with the
oppressed, not the oppressor” in the wake of Israel’s ongoing
attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and despite backlash from the
club’s board.
>
> The Green Brigade, an ultras group of hardcore Celtic fans,
displayed banners saying “Free Palestine” and “Victory to the
resistance!!” during the club’s Scottish Premiership match
against Kilmarnock in Glasgow last week.
>
> Israeli international and former Celtic midfielder Nir Bitton
criticised the fans on social media, saying they had been
“brainwashed”.
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> “Shame on you!!! Yes free Gaza from Hamas not from Israel!!”
he said on Instagram.
>
> However, the fan group remained undeterred and called on all
Celtic fans to raise the Palestine flag during the club’s UEFA
Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on October 25.
>
> “We must apply learning from apartheid South Africa to
dismantle apartheid Israel – if we are neutral in situations of
injustice, we have chosen the side of the oppressor,” the Green
Brigade said in a statement this week.
>
> “We send our sincere solidarity and prayers to our friends
across all of Palestine at this traumatic time when yet again
much of the international community turns its back in cowardice
while war crimes are inflicted on a largely defenceless,
imprisoned population,” the statement added.
>
> Al-Arian said it is “becoming increasingly hard” to show
support for the Palestinians in Western countries because some
governments in Europe have banned protests against the Israeli
attacks in Gaza and have threatened to ban the display of the
Palestinian flag.
>
> “The question on any reasonable mind should be why? Why are
Ukrainian lives more sacred than Palestinian lives?” it said.
>
> Celtic’s fierce local rival Rangers have, in turn, supported
Israel whenever both teams have met in the Old Firm – local
derby – fixture over the years.
>
> The blue-and-white-kitted Glasgow club held a minute’s silence
for the people killed in Israel ahead of their Premiership match
last weekend.
>
> According to Al-Arian, the contrasting stances show that
football is “never really separated from politics”.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: .
Date: October 21, 2023, 5:12 am
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2023/10/17/algeria-to-host-palestine-football-matches
Algeria offers to host Palestinian football matches amid
Israel-Gaza war
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> Algeria has stepped in to host all matches involving the
Palestinian national football team and bear all associated costs
due to the continuing war in Gaza.
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> Algeria has agreed to stage “all official and non-official
matches involving the Palestinian team’s preparation for
qualification to the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Asian Cup and to
assume all associated costs,” an Algerian football federation
statement announced in a statement on Monday.
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> The move, subject to approval from the Asian Football
Confederation (AFC), was announced after a request was put
forward to the Algerian authorities by Jibril Rajoub, the head
of the Palestinian football federation.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: Worldwide
Date: October 29, 2023, 5:18 pm
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Calls for Benzema to lose citizenship over Palestine support |
Al Jazeera Newsfeed
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> A French politician has demanded that Karim Benzema be
stripped of his Ballon d’Or and his French citizenship after the
footballer expressed solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: Indonesia
Date: November 6, 2023, 12:21 am
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7 month old video:
Indonesia stripped of Under-20 World Cup over Israel issue | Al
Jazeera Newsfeed
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> FIFA has stripped Indonesia of hosting rights for the upcoming
U-20 World Cup after local objections to Israel’s participation.
It also means the Indonesian team will no longer be playing.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WrVXvmEds
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: KyrieIrving
Date: November 25, 2023, 3:21 am
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Kyrie Irving Wears Palestinian Keffiyah During Post-Game Press
Conference. What Does This Mean?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunNc_OxnR4
Comments:
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> I’m so proud of the Palestinian movements! People are NOT
going to be tamed in to fear and silence
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> Kyrie Irving is on the right side of history.
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> I’m so impressed and proud of Kyrie for supporting the
Palestinian just cause
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Re: Operation Gaddafi
DIR By: france
Date: December 19, 2023, 8:29 pm
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HTML https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/algeria-soccer-star-on-trial-in-france-for-inciting-hatred-with-hamas-post/
Algeria soccer star on trial in France for inciting hatred with
Palestinian preacher post
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> Algerian international footballer Youcef Atal goes on trial in
France, accused of inciting hatred after posting a video in
which a Palestinian preacher threatens Israel with a “black
day.”
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> Atal, who plays for Ligue 1 side Nice, shared the video on his
Instagram account, which has 3.2 million followers
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 18, 2024, 8:53 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/marine-le-pen-party-tells-132352715.html
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> 160 French athletes penned an open letter urging voters to
reject Le Pen’s party at France’s parliamentary election on July
7. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, called the snap poll
after a humiliating defeat in the European elections.
> ...
> While Mbappe stopped short of identifying the RN, he said he
supported his team-mate Marcus Thuram who had explicitly
appealed to his fans to block the RN at the parliamentary
elections.
> ...
> “Respect is one of the cornerstones of sport: respect for
opponents on the pitch, respect for those who don’t think like
us, respect for the environment. The extreme right tramples on
this respect every day,” the letter reads.
>
> “We call on all sports fans to mobilise against the rise of
the extreme right. On June 30 and July 7, voting will be not
only a civic duty, but also an act of love for our country, for
our loved ones, and for all those more fragile than us, who will
be prey to discrimination if the extreme right comes to power.”
>
> Signatories include former and present tennis stars Yannick
Noah, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marion Bartoli.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 2, 2024, 6:09 pm
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