Open mike 27/11/2024

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  1. Jenny 1
    27 November 2024 at 8:06 am

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    'We the people'

    Q: Will there ever be another Israeli away sport match played in NZ?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/protesters-target-israeli-player-at-asb-classic/YP6CHK7UW23KGBXYORAKHBRO7A/

    A: No

    Not until the apartheid regime in Israel is ended. And never while the genocide in Gaza is continuing.

    Will Israel Become Too Expensive 4 the Empire?

    Indie Nile

    84.6K subscribers

    #football #maccabi #israel #propaganda #palestine

    @0:53 minutes;

    …..Where Israel plays an away game in Glasgow against the women's Scottish national team and it has to be played in an empty Stadium because basically the fans are not having it….

    …..The fans themselves are are starting to take more more and more actions. You have football fans certainly in Glasgow Celtic, more recently in Paris. Again completely violating the FIFA ban on any demonstrations of support flying Palestinian Flags.

    One wonders where that might lead UFA and and what kind of decisions UFA might make and I think this is actually going to escalate.

    You know what gives me hope these days? The lessons from South Africa and the role sports related protest….

    …..There was actually an incredible moment in 1981. The game was rugby and it was the apartheid regime's sport of choice.

    There was no thought of banning South Africa at the time, but then there was the tour of New Zealand in 1981. And there was a movement called HART, Halt All Racist Tours, they protested the games and the cops beat them up, brutally, which brought even more people out to protest. And eventually it grew so big, to the point of literally disrupting the games, people were coming onto the fields, and the tour was a complete shambles 'Batons and Barbed Wire'.

    For 8 weeks in 1981, New Zealand was more war zone than God Zone and basically the whole nation New Zealand split over the rugby tour from South Africa. And as a result the International Rugby Board banned South Africa from all international competitions. So it didn't stop because the oppressor suddenly grew a conscience and realized. 'Oh racism is bad'. No it stopped because the protest and the disruption caused by the protest made business as usual impossible. Business being the operative word, of course,

    Because Sports Authorities, like governments, will never act out of morality, they will act out of business interest when they are forced to act by the People, by the citizens and fans of the sports…..

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