Sporting Boycott
PUMA’s new marketing campaign, Only See Great, claims to spark a spirit of “optimism” and “hope.” Yet PUMA remains the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association, which includes teams in Apartheid Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied Palestine. As protests take place across the world ahead of the PUMA shareholders meeting on May 5, take action now to tell PUMA: We don’t need “inspiring” marketing ploys. We need PUMA to stop supporting Israeli apartheid. Click to Tweet at PUMA: Palestinians #OnlySeeApartheid Retired Irish rugby player Duncan Casey says: “Sport is about fair play and inclusion. Those that say sport and … Continue reading →
Posted May 4, 2021 in BDS, Boycott, Human Rights, International Law, Press releases, Settlements, Sporting Boycott, War Crimes, West Bank.
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.
Today, November 29th, is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and we in the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) send greetings of solidarity from Ireland to Palestinians everywhere as they struggle for their freedom and self-determination. The UN chose this day, 29th November, to mark the shameful day in 1947 when the UN voted to partition Palestine against the wishes of the indigenous people – an act that would lead to the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians during the Nakba (catastrophe) between 1947 and 1949. 70 years on, Palestinians continue to suffer the disastrous consequences of that imperial … Continue reading →
Posted November 29, 2017 in Academic Boycott, Apartheid, BDS, BNC, Boycott, British Government, Commemoration, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Impunity, International Law, Internment, Irish Government, Jerusalem, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Refugees, Right of Return, Right to BDS, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, Statements, UN, War Crimes, West Bank, Women.
On Saturday 10th June around 1,500 people from all over Ireland (and further afield) marched in a National Demonstration to mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation and illegal colonisation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) organised the event to convey a simple message, that ‘100 years of injustice & 50 years of occupation is enough! It’s time for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people!’ Click here to read the leaflet (PDF) we handed out to thousands of people along the way. Speaking at the rally outside the Israeli Embassy … Continue reading →
Posted June 19, 2017 in Academic Boycott, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, Arms Embargo, BDS, Boycott, Campaigns, Child deaths, Child Prisoners, Cultural Boycott, Day of Action, Demonstration, Divestment, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Event Report, Gaza, History, Human Rights, Impunity, Irish Government, Israeli Embassy, Jerusalem, Multimedia, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Right of Return, Sanctions, Siege of Gaza, Sporting Boycott, Statements, Trade Unions, Uncategorized, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
Thursday’s protest outside the Dundalk FC v Maccabi Tel Aviv football match in Tallaght (7pm) will be a small act of solidarity with the people of Palestine who have suffered so much injustice, and continue to suffer daily, at the hands of the Israel’s apartheid regime due to the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the continual denial of rights to the Palestinian people. While there are those who insist that that sport and politics shouldn’t mix, we believe there is no place in sport for racism or teams who act as ambassadors for racist or apartheid states. As a member … Continue reading →
Posted September 22, 2016 in Football, Hate Apartheid, Love Football, Press releases, Sporting Boycott.
More than 30 MEPs have called on the EU High Representative, Federica Mogherini, to take measures assuring freedom of expression regarding the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for justice and equality and recognising Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, as a human rights defender. Irish MEPs Martina Anderson and Nessa Childers are among the signatories. Note: For the full letter and list of signatories please see here. While the signatories views on the BDS movement differ, they expressed concern regarding “growing attempts to silence and repress advocates of BDS” and called on the EU to “guarantee that it will not introduce … Continue reading →
Posted July 21, 2016 in Academic Boycott, Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, Boycott, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, ECCP, Economic Boycott, EU, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, War Crimes.
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 Russell Tribunal on Palestine is an International People’s Tribunal created in response to the international community’s inaction regarding Israel’s recognized violations of international law. Following the sessions in Barcelona (which focused on EU complicity), London (on Corporate Complicity) and Cape Town (on the crime of Apartheid), the New York Tribunal will go back to the root of the conflict and focus on UN and US responsibility in the denial of the Palestinian right to self-determination. There will be live streams from New York on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th October (starting at 3pm Irish Time every day) – use … Continue reading →
Posted October 5, 2012 in Academic Boycott, BDS, Boycott, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Event, Gaza, Human Rights, Multimedia, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, The Wall, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
Statement from Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) Occupied Palestine, 9th July 2012 Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of the world who contributed to this success. However, Israel’s intensifying violations of international law and basic Palestinian rights, the direct threat Israel poses to the freedom of peoples across the region, and the impunity that Israel still enjoys are cause for … Continue reading →
Posted July 10, 2012 in Academic Boycott, Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Human Rights, National Rights, PACBI, Political Rights, Press releases, Sporting Boycott, Statements, The Wall, War Crimes, West Bank.
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.
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.
As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012, there will be a series of Boycott Israeli Goods actions taking place in Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway tomorrow, Saturday 25th February. We encourage all our members and supporters in these areas to come out and support these actions. END ISRAELI APARTHEID – BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS [Limerick, Israeli Apartheid Week 2012] Boycott Israeli Goods action Sat, 25 February 2012, 10:30AM (The Milk Market, Limerick City) [Cork, Israeli Apartheid Week 2012] Boycott Israeli Goods Demonstration Sat, 25 February 2012, 1:00PM (Daunt Square, Cork City) [Galway, Israeli Apartheid Week 2012] Boycott Israeli Goods action Sat, … Continue reading →
Posted February 24, 2012 in Academic Boycott, Arms Embargo, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Demonstration, Diamonds, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Event, Flotilla, Freedom Waves, Gaza, Human Rights, iaw2012, Irish Ship To Gaza, Israeli Apartheid Week, MV Saoirse, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Sanctions, Siege of Gaza, Sporting Boycott.
Keep an eye on the IPSC website for details of the 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week, taking place in late February 2012. In the meantime, check out this video courtesy of the Never Before Campaign:
Posted February 3, 2012 in Academic Boycott, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, CRH, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Economic Boycott, education, Event, Human Rights, iaw2012, Israeli Apartheid Week, Multimedia, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, Video.
Occupied Palestine is part of every free heartbeat in this world and her cause continues to inspire solidarity across the globe. The World Social Forum Free Palestine is an expression of the human instinct to unite for justice and freedom and an echo of the World Social Forum’s opposition to neo-liberal hegemony, colonialism, and racism through struggles for social, political and economic alternatives to promote justice, equality, and the sovereignty of peoples. The WSF Free Palestine will be a global encounter of broad-based popular and civil society mobilizations from around the world. It aims to: 1. Show the strength of … Continue reading →
Posted January 25, 2012 in Academic Boycott, Arms Embargo, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Event, Human Rights, National Rights, PACBI, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Public Meeting, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, Statements, Trade Unions.
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