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The first Palestinian World Cup
Despite not qualifying for the tournament, the ubiquity of Palestinian flags and the rejection of Israeli reporters has put Palestine front and center in Qatar.
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Baker Zoubi
December 6, 2022
Israel’s sports minister posts video with genocidal chants by fans
At the end of a Facebook video encouraging sportsmanlike conduct by fans from one of Israel’s most notoriously racist soccer clubs, those surrounding Miri Regev break out into chants of ‘burn your village,’ directed at the opposing team — from an Arab city in Israel. It’s not every day that a senior government minister, who a…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 23, 2018
After FIFA complaint, Israel lets Gaza soccer players travel to championship game in Hebron
The Palestine Cup final, which was originally scheduled to take place Saturday, was delayed due to an Israeli-imposed travel ban on 11 players from Gaza. Petition to boot Israeli settlement teams collects 150,000 signatures. By Yoni Mendel Seventy-two hours after Israel refused to allow 11 Palestinian soccer players travel from Gaza to the West Bank to participate…
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August 1, 2016
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Palestinians turn to FIFA over Israeli restrictions
For the second time in a week, Israeli authorities place travel restrictions on players meant to participate in Palestine Cup matches. A motion to expel Israel from FIFA last year was withdrawn after Palestinians received assurances on freedom of movement. By Yoni Mendel The Palestinian Football Association said it will escalate its complaint with FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, over…
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July 30, 2016
Israel’s most racist soccer club isn’t shouting ‘death to Arabs’
Compared to the overt, oft-condemned and penalized racism of Beitar Jerusalem, Maccabi Tel Aviv’s racism is more mainstream. That makes it more dangerous. An ugly brawl erupted on the soccer pitch on Tuesday at the end of a league match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bnei Sakhnin, which is the most successful Palestinian club in…
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Rami Younis
April 27, 2016
WATCH: Israeli students stage soccer tournament for refugees
Israel is imprisoning thousands of African asylum seekers in a desert detention facility called ‘Holot.’ A group of students and youngsters from Be’er Sheva, in southern Israel, recently organized a soccer tournament with the asylum seekers in an attempt to make them feel less isolated. Israeli authorities systematically deny the Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers…
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Social TV
February 14, 2016
What Israelis don’t get about attempts to boot Israel from FIFA
It is incomprehensible that one of the premier clubs in Israel doesn’t allow Arab players — because they are Arab. By Asaf Marziano The head of Palestinian Football Federation, Jibril Rajoub, is attempting to have Israel expelled from FIFA, soccer’s international governing body. The topic has been making headlines in Israel and internationally in recent…
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May 25, 2015
How one soccer match tells the entire Palestinian story
On Friday morning, the Palestine national soccer team will face off against Jordan, a team with a majority of Palestinian players, in the Asian Cup. Whether they choose to or not, the 22 players on the field will tell the story of refugees, occupation, checkpoints and the connection between home and diaspora. Oh, and they’ll…
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January 15, 2015
When an Israeli soccer game looks like a Klan rally
It’s hard to say which is worse – the behavior of racist fans, or the tacit approval they get from Israeli sports officials and media. I like to think that if you discount for the century of fighting with Arabs, Israel is still plenty racist, but no more than most societies. I remind myself that…
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Larry Derfner
November 2, 2012
On violence, soccer and occupation – how is Israel different?
End the occupation and the militarism, which are conspicuous in the democratic world today but not in its history, and this could be a pretty cool place. I try not to go out of my way to write good things about Israel, but I also try not to go out of my way not to write…
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Larry Derfner
April 22, 2012
Racist Israeli soccer team left in the dust
A small low-budget team from northern Israel with four Arab citizens of Israel on its team has just won the championship, while the Arab-free Israeli soccer club notorious for its racist fan base came out a loser. By Issa Boursheh Racism and violence are on the rise in Israel’s soccer fields. In March alone, there…
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April 3, 2012
Gender soccer face-off mimics the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If men and women can’t share a field in a simple soccer game, it’s no surprise that compromise in the conflict remains elusive. By Liv Halperin It all started on a local soccer field, in a neighborhood of south Tel Aviv. My amateur girls’ team – motivated women in their 20s and 30s – had…
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February 27, 2012
Israeli soccer: If anyone’s a sucker – it’s me
Yesterday I watched the game between Israel and Croatia, a qualification match for the upcoming European Championship. It was pathetic, as usual. We lost 2-1. And as usual, I, like the rest of the country, had my hopes up high that change was gonna come with the new French coach, non-stop lollipop sucking Luis Fernandez.…
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Ami Kaufman
October 10, 2010
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