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2023 Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon – Sunday 4th June @ 12.30pm Calling all Mini-Marathon runners… would you be interested in running the mini-marathon in support of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign? We are looking for volunteer runners to help us raise much needed funds for our work. Wearing the Palestine themed football jersey, which we will provide free of charge, would be a great way to highlight the work of the group you are supporting along with raising awareness among the public of the situation in Palestine. If you would like to be part of our initiative please contact us directly at info@ipsc.ie … Continue reading →
Posted May 12, 2023 in Fundraiser, Press releases, Sport.
Answering the Palestinian call for a global day of action, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups will be holding a series of actions around Ireland on the 25th and 26th October 2019. We are calling for a boycott of Puma due to their continued sponsorship of the Football Association of Apartheid Israel. The Israeli FA allows teams based in Israel’s colonial settlements in occupied Palestine to be members, despite the illegality of these settlements. Puma claims to care about human rights, but its actions prove that it doesn’t. We need to send a message to Puma that their enabling … Continue reading →
Posted October 23, 2019 in Apartheid, BDS, Belfast, Boycott, Campaigns, Day of Action, Derry, Dublin, Event, Galway, Human Rights, Limerick, Press releases, Protest, Settlements, Soccer, Sport, Sporting Boycott, War Crimes, Waterford.
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) reiterated calls for the cancellation of the away leg of the match between the Irish and Israeli U-21 teams, and for the expulsion of the Israeli FA from FIFA and UEFA due to Israel’s ongoing human rights abuses against the Palestinian people, including Palestinian sportspeople. The match is due to be played in Tel Aviv on 11th October, and when the home leg was played in Tallaght last year, the IPSC held a protest outside. We encourage our supporters to sign the following petition calling for the cancellation of the game and to write to … Continue reading →
Posted October 8, 2018 in Action Item, BDS, Football, Hate Apartheid, Human Rights, Love Football, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sport, Sporting Boycott, War Crimes.
Local activists have expressed their anger after the UK immigration service denied visas to Palestinian athletes due to compete in Sunday’s Derry marathon. Gaza-based Nader al Massri and Sami Nateel had been due to arrive in Derry on Friday but their plans have now been halted due to the visa refusal which the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (I.P.S.C.) has branded “inexplicable”. “We are hugely disappointed and angered at this decision. There was a large group of Palestinians who came to the Derry marathon last year and it was a massive success so we find it inexplicable that the immigration service … Continue reading →
Posted May 31, 2016 in British Government, Derry, Press releases, Sport.
As a result of Israel’s repression of Palestinian soccer, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) is seeking to have Israel suspended from FIFA, the world governing body of the sport. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) fully support this move, and encourages all those concerned with justice in Palestine to take action to ensure that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the Irish Football Association (IFA) support the Palestinian move at the FIFA Congress on May 29th. Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA visited the Palestine-Israel region this week to discuss the issue of the Palestinian FA’s complaints against Israel in … Continue reading →
Posted May 21, 2015 in Action Item, Email Campaign, Gaza, Human Rights, National Rights, Press releases, Siege of Gaza, Sport, Sporting Boycott, West Bank.
The IPSC would like send our best wishes to Team Palestine at the 2012 Olympics. Good luck to Bahaa Al Farra (Men’s 400m), Woroud Sawalha (Women’s 800m), Nader Al-Masri (Men’s 5000m) Maher Abu Remeleh (Men’s Judo 73k), Ahmed Jibral (Men’s 400m Freestyle) and Sabine Hazboun (Women’s 50m Freestyle). Follow the Team on Facebook. Read an article about some of the competitors.
Posted July 24, 2012 in Olympics, Palestinian Culture, Sport.
It took three months of hunger strike and the near death of a Palestinian footballer, held for three years without charge or trial under the ‘Unlawful Combatants Law’ which is itself illegal under international law, for the Israeli authorities to agree to a release deal. While we cautiously welcome the deal that should see Mahmoud Sarsak released on 10 July 2012, we are alarmed that Olympic squad goalkeeper Omar Abu Rois and Ramallah player Mohammed Nimr are also being held by Israel without charge. We maintain that a state which holds sportsmen as political prisoners is unfit to host an international sporting event. This … Continue reading →
Posted June 29, 2012 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Culture, Football, Hate Apartheid, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Love Football, National Rights, Palestinian Culture, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Soccer, Sport, Sporting Boycott, UEFA.
The IPSC is pleased to announce that the much sought after Palestinian national football jerseys are now back in stock in our online store and on our stalls. Sizes available are Small, Medium, Large and XL. Click here to order.
Posted June 23, 2012 in Culture, Football, Love Football, Press releases, Soccer, Sport.
Over the past number of days, FIFA’s Sepp Blatter, FIFPro (“the voice of all professional footballers in the world”), footballing legend Eric Cantona, Show Racism the Red Card and film director Ken Loach (‘Looking for Eric’) have all made statements expressing concern for the life of Mahmoud Sarsak, a 25-year-old Palestinian national team footballer who has been on hunger strike for 87 days in an Israeli prison protesting against his three year internment without trial. (Note – you can sign a petition calling on UEFA President Michel Platini to help secure release of ahmoud Sarsak held by UEFA member Israel … Continue reading →
Posted June 13, 2012 in Football, Gaza, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Soccer, Sport, Sporting Boycott.
