Thread by @PACBI

Ahead of the #WorldCup, we're co-hosting an expert panel w/ @PSCupdates to discuss #sportswashing by human rights abusing states, including apartheid Israel, & how to support those resisting repression.

Oct 18, 8pm Palestine, 6pm BST, 12pm ET.

Register: bit.ly/CamouflagingIn…

The #sportswashing panel will be chaired by Shireen Ahmed, a multi-platform sports journalist, a TEDx speaker, mentor, and an award-winning sports activist who focuses on the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports.

Speakers include: Abdullah Al-Arian, a professor of modern Middle East history and editor of the recently published Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game. He is also editor of the Critical Currents in Islam page on the Jadaliyya e-zine.

Also joining the panel is Jules Boykoff, author of five books on the Olympics, including Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. He teaches politics and writing at Pacific University in Oregon, USA.

The #sportswashing panel will also include Aya Khattab, a Palestinian footballer who plays for the Palestine women’s national team.

And Nicholas McGeehan, a founding director of FairSquare. He is an investigator and leading advocate on migrant workers’ rights. He was a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch for five years, where he conducted research and advocacy on a wide range of rights issues.