The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel challenges Israeli apartheid via academic, cultural, sports & anti-pinkwashing campaigns.
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Even before its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the global, grassroots BDS movement as a "strategic threat" to its decades-old regime of oppression. 🧵
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NFL football player Azeez Al-Shaair continues to use his platform to denounce Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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Checkmate to genocide!
Palestinians salute Heather Richards, top ranked Australian chess player, for her principled refusal to play against genocidal Israel's team at the 46th Chess Olympiad, world’s biggest chess tournament.
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"I oppose genocide. I oppose the Israeli apartheid which denies Palestinians basic rights and dignity. I oppose the illegal occupations of the Palestinian territories as per the ruling of the International Court of Justice.
"I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people."
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The months-long people-powered #StopTheGame campaign is calling on Ireland to refuse to play genocidal Israel in its UEFA Nations League matches.
The matches shouldn't be happening at all.
But here's what that campaign helped make happen:
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From players to trade unions, to athletes, to sport personalities, to broadcasters and radio programs, to pubs, to parliament members, to Palestine solidarity groups, the #StopTheGame campaign kept Israel's genocide in Gaza and apartheid rule over Palestinians center field.
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Palestinians salute the principled decision by Ireland’s men’s national football team goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu not to play the UEFA Nations League matches against genocidal Israel.
#StopTheGame
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Israel’s ongoing genocide against Indigenous Palestinians has killed tens of thousands, including more than 1,000 sportspeople.
The Israel Football Association includes multiple football teams based in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land.
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"as it maintains its brutal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, its system of apartheid over all Palestinians, and its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. UEFA and FIFA should have suspended the Israel Football Association long ago…"
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This is what Palestinians are calling for.
Football federations must take action. It’s not too late for @FAIreland to do the right thing and cancel matches with genocidal Israel.
It's not too late for players to refuse to play as a matter of conscience. #StopTheGame
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During yesterday’s Austria v Israel UEFA Nations League match, Amnesty International held a banner reading “End Genocide.”
The match shouldn’t have taken place at all.
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