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June 4: Boycott of Ireland-Israel Football Matches

redjade | 03.06.2005 13:15 | Anti-militarism | Liverpool

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On 4 June, Irish soccer supporters
should show Israeli Apartheid the Red Card
- Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Boycott the Ireland-Israel football matches

It's time for people to demand justice for Palestine.

We are calling upon the Irish soccer supporters to stand up for justice and human rights by supporting Palestine at the soccer match between Ireland and Israel on June 4 in Dublin. They can do this by waving Palestinian flags and by chanting "Free Palestine".

The Irish people should not allow Israel to use the football field to represent and assert itself, with its occupation and apartheid politics, in front of the international community. Irish football should not allow players and supporters to be manipulated as political pawns by a criminal Israeli regime which shows a total disregard for International Law by continuing to imprison the Palestinian people behind an 8-metre high Apartheid wall built on stolen Palestinian land, while at the same time pretending to engage in peace talks.

Irish soccer supporters should show the Israeli Government that there is no place for Apartheid in the 21st century.

News and Discussion at Indymedia Ireland:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69928

redjade

Comments

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Anti-semitism alive and well.

06.06.2005 11:38

Why no boycott of matches involving China, Cuba, North Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia or any other place where people are oppressed and denied democratic rights? Is the current fashionable anti-Israel attitude anti-semitic, or just ordinary racism? Do the anti-Israel faction expect better behaviour from Israelis because they are rich, mostly white and democratic, while China and the other mentioned countries are mostly non-white, undemocratic and therefore can't be expected to behave so well?

denis

Should not have boycotted

06.06.2005 14:08

But it would be good to see the stadium filled with Palestinian flags.

PS dennis

The regime in teh UK is far more murderous than those in any of the countries u mentioned. Just coz its not commiting these acts at home doesnt mean its not like that.

Free Palestine

Anti - Semitism don’t make me laugh

07.06.2005 17:22

Maybe the reason why it’s currently fashionable to be anti- Israel is because of all the un-just un-democratic and plain darn criminal activities they have been doing in the past couple of months. Where as the same would have been true if this was summer of 1989 and there was a football match against china (for those who don’t remember that’s when the student rebellion against the Chinese dictatorship was crushed by tanks which was most vividly symbolized by the man standing in front of the tanks refusing to move). You can’t boycott everything all the time you have to choose battles according to the large events of the times. If it wasn’t like this we would have had to have boycotted every American and English event for more then past 20 years now. As for your anti Semitism remark it’s a bit out of date and frankly has become so over used that its getting annoying. Jews have it no worse than anyone else and if anything are in much better situation then most people.

ted kazinsky

fashion

08.06.2005 17:16

China is, and the USSR was hundreds of times more 'criminal' than Israel ever has been or will be. Why then does Israel attract such hostility compared to these two large regimes? I'm not particularly pro-Israeli, I just find the liberal left's choice of regimes to criticise very odd indeed. If the fellow-travellers had taken the trouble to denounce the USSR and China for the human disasters they became millions of lives would have been saved. Instead the lefties were strangely silent. Why should anyone believe the liberal types who now tell us that Israel is a bad country? Their track record of identifying terrible regimes isn't very good at all.

denis

ted kazinsky

07.03.2006 19:21

'Jews have it no worse than anyone else and if anything are in much better situation then most people.'

The social/financial situation (whatever it is you are alluding to) of a race/religion/ethnicity bears no relevance to wether someone else is being racist or discriminating against them.
If everyone with black skin were millionaires would it still be ok to call them the 'n word'?

The fact that you generalise about Jews 'situation' shows that a) you don't know what you are talking about and b) you are stereotyping.

I think it is very sad that when judging Israel's behaviour there is a confusion between zionists and jews. Of course Zionism and Judaism are linked, this is obvious. But Jew and Zionist are not one and the same thing.
Unfortunately this problem is not aided by many who should realise the responsibility they have: The Chief Rabbi recently vocally supported Israel when the Catholic Church divested money from Israel, and the Jewish Chronicle is an arguably pro-Israel newspaper.

Noam
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