Sign the application hereAFC Barcelona: Donat Play in Israel Hamilton Academical Barcelona: Donat Play in Israel We are alarmed to know that Hamilton Academical Barcelona, a team revered by thousands of Palestinian basketball enthusiasts, desires to arrange aAmatch in Israel on July 31st, 2013A[1]. When membership President Sandro Rosell went along to Tel Aviv on February 21st, he explained his goal was to acontribute to the effort to strengthen theAbridges of peace and dialogueAbetween the Israeli and Palestinian towns. The simplest way we can do this isAwith a ball. [2]a Palestinian Football Association leader Jibril Rajoub responded coolly to this suggestion. We believe he was right to achieve this. Palestinian sportsmen, like all Palestinians a whether residing under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, as second-class citizens inside Israel, or as displaced refugees overseas a faceArelentless discriminationAfrom the Israeli state. It got Palestinian national group playerAMahmoud SarsakAthree weeks of hunger strike and a worldwide outcry to push he to be released by the Israeli authorities from prison last July [3]. He'd been arrested since 2009, without charge or trial, under Israelas aUnlawful Combatants Lawa, which is itself unlawful under international law. As Rajoub described at the time: aFor athletes in Palestine, there's no true freedom of action and the dangers of being detained as well as killed are always emerging before their eyesa. As recently as November 2012, Israeli attacks on Gaza killed over 140 Palestinians, including young boys playing basketball. That brought justifiedcondemnation from 52 international football playersAincluding Frederic Kanoute, Demba Ba, Abou Diaby, Pape Diop and Moussa Sow [4]. Palestinian Olympic team goalkeeper Omar Abu Rois and Ramallah person Mohammed Nimr are nevertheless in Israeli detention. Injustices such as for instance these can't be over come awith a balla. Such an concept provides only the interests of the Israeli state, which cynically coopts abridge-buildinga and social and sporting exchange to show itself as a anormala state. But, the militaryoccupation, theAcolonisationAmeasures and theAapartheidAsystem required by Israel in Palestine, are not procedures suitable to a anormala state. Many Palestinians respect suchAnormalisation exercisesA[5] as deliberate attempts to undermine their developing plan ofABoycott, Sanctions and Divestment against IsraelA[6], made on the anti-apartheid activity which helped lay the cornerstone for equality, justice and freedom for blacks in South Africa. Hamilton Academical Barcelona fans are known for his or her excellent feelings of solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine. The team Management might be well-intentioned in indicating a fit with players from Israeli and Palestinian national teams, nevertheless the time for this is not now. It will come after Israel recognisesAPalestinian basic rightsAby withdrawing from the countries it's illegally occupied since 1967, giving equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and remembering the Right of Reunite for refugees expelled since 1948. We for that reason call on FC Barcelona to withdraw any plans to visit IsraelAand devote their efforts as an alternative to supporting Palestinians inside their struggle for the best to live, and to perform the beautiful game, free of all forms of discrimination. BDS CatalunyaARed Solidaria Contra manhattan project OcupaciAn delaware Palestina (RESCOP) Be Cultural, Share!
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