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Oct 12, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read Read on X
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.

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.@Disney's Snow White features Gal Gadot as the evil queen.

Gadot has consistently acted as a cultural ambassador for Israel, even hosting screenings of an Israeli military propaganda film that seeks to justify its live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Boycott Disney's Snow White movie! Featuring genocidal Israel's cultural ambassador Gal Gadot.
By choosing to directly represent genocidal Israel, Gal Gadot’s films are boycottable. BDS targets institutions, not individuals. Where individuals represent Israel, their activities are subject to the institutional criteria of the BDS movement.
We deeply appreciate that lead actor Rachel Zegler has publicly expressed support for Palestinian liberation, but that is not sufficient to undo the harm done by the inclusion of Israel's cultural ambassador, Gadot, in the film.
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Dear @Reebok,

You might want to check with PUMA, adidas, and Erreà before going ahead with the Israel Football Association sponsorship.

Sincerely,
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Boycott Berlinale.

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Under massive pressure from filmmakers, organisers, and audiences, Berlinale just published long statements trying to do damage control – but failed to meet our campaign’s demands.
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PACBI is a founding member of the BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement.
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