Soccer Shirts As Terrorism
Hyperbolic supporters of Israel are charging a Palestinian soccer
team in Chile with “fomenting terrorist intent” with their new
uniforms, which ingeniously replace the number 1 with the map of
Israel, aka Palestine. Chile's Jewish community has demanded the
shirts be banned and the team apologize for "using the sport to lie
and hate.” But Deportivo Palestino, founded in 1920 by
Palestinian immigrants to Chile who now number over 300,000 -
the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East - cites
the hypocrisy of such indignation in light of the abuses of an illegal
occupation, and defends the image as accurate: "For us, free
Palestine will always be the historical Palestine, nothing less.” The
team unveiled the shirts on Jan. 4 during their first game, which
they won.
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