Why the Israeli Ambassador will be supporting Hapoel Tel Aviv at Celtic Park on December 2 Hapoel Tel Aviv attracts a Labour Zionist support in opposition to Revisionism. Labour Zionism, however, has been as much a violator of Palestinian human and national rights as its Revisionist competitor. Often the competition between the two camps is…
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Media Release; Sunday November 29th 2009: Football fans to fly the flag for Palestine Celtic fans are set to show solidarity with Palestine when their team takes on Israel’s Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Europa League on Wednesday. Campaigners aim to issue ten thousand Palestine flags to fans entering the Parkhead venue, as an…
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What does Israel have against a Palestinian stadium? By Amira Hass A friendly game between an Arab soccer team and a Palestinian team was supposed to inaugurate the new stadium being built in the eastern part of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, at the end of the year. “Supposed to” because the Civil Administration, an arm of…
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Lawyers representing five Palestine supporters arrested last year for disrupting a concert by an Israeli group will argue at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow and Friday this week that to boycott Israel is not racist. The campaigners, all members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), stood up during the Aug 29th 2008 Edinburgh Festival performance…
Demonstrate for Palestine at the Hapoel Tel Aviv game on Dec 2 Download Leaflet Israel attacks Palestinian sports facilities, bombed Gaza stadium Israel usually prevents the Palestinian team from competing: Before the last World Cup, Israel forced Gaza players to wait weeks at the Israeli-controlled Rafah border to join their West Bank team-mates for training…
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The Israeli Brand by Craig Smith in Adbusters13 October 2009 In March 2009 New York-based GfK Custom Research and British “place branding” consultant Simon Anholt released the global Nation Brands Index (NBI). It rates countries based on international perception of various categories, including tourism, investment, and immigration and governance. Germany ranked 1st overall, the UK…