Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
9 August
ISRAELI SPORTS TEAM DRIVEN OUT OF GLASGOW
On this day in 2006, the Israeli national cricket team game against Greece was cancelled. The match had had to be transferred from Glasgow to the military camp at Lossiemouth in the Scottish Highlands following vigorous and noisy protests at two Israeli matches against Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. The Israeli cricket team then withdrew from Glasgow and was scheduled to play the fixture in Lossiemouth behind the kind of barbed wire which Israel uses to imprison Palestinians.
تم طرد الفريق الرياضي الإسرائيلي من جلاسكو
9 أغسطس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2006 ، ألغيت مباراة فريق الكريكيت الوطني الإسرائيلي ضد اليونان. كان لا بد من نقل المباراة من غلاسكو إلى المخيم العسكري في لوسيماوث في المرتفعات الاسكتلندية بعد نشاط قوي واحتجاجات صاخبة في مبارتين إسرائيليتين ضد قصف إسرائيل للبنان. انسحب فريق الكريكيت الإسرائيلي من غلاسكو وكان من المقرر أن يلعب المباراة في لوسيماوث خلف الأسلاك الشائكة وهي نفس الأسلاك التي تستخدمها إسرائيل لسجن الفلسطينيين. اليوم الدولي للشعوب الأصلية في العالم.
Demonstrations forced an Israeli cricket team out of Glasgow in August, leading them to play in a remote location the Scottish Highlands under armed guard. Since the Israeli State so often puts Palestinians behind barbed wire, it was appropriate that the Apartheid State’s sporting ambassadors had themselves to play behind barbed wire due to popular outrage at Israel’s ongoing murderous attack on Lebanon. The Lebanese resistance gave the invading army a very bloody nose, and we registered a small supporting victory.
"An Israeli cricket team match which was due to take place under armed guard at RAF Lossiemouth has been cancelled. A spokesman for the organisers, the European Cricket Council, insisted the move was not due to any threatened demonstration. It is understood that Israel's opponents Greece had suffered travel problems and were unable to make it.
The initial decision to pick RAF Lossiemouth was taken after fears of protests over the bombing of Lebanon. Problems first surfaced when a match in Glasgow had to be abandoned last week amid security fears and another attracted dozens of protesters.
Twice in the same day, amidst concerns for the security of their games, the Israeli cricket team in Glasgow has cancelled the venues it had been allocated to play. They shifted yesterday to the Glasgow Academicals ground, protected by a brutal two metre spiked fence perimeter, and then cancelled even this arrangement.
“The security concerns are the result of widespread revulsion among the public over the massacres by Israeli soldiers of Lebanese and Palestinians – they fear, correctly, that the appearance of off-duty Israeli soldiers in cricketing whites will provoke widespread protests. They are right. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls for intensified pressure to have this tour cancelled by the cricketing authorities and the Israeli soldiers asked to leave Scotland.”