2d ago

Roger Wade, former CEO of Boxfresh, was banned from attending Brighton & Hove Albion matches after wearing a Palestine #football top.

Wade, who's held a season ticket for nearly a decade, explained that he was escorted out of the stadium without explanation. The club later issued a ban letter.

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT #TERRORISM.

It it about wiping off #Palestine off the map of the earth.

UK #Fascism #Sport #UKpol #Sport #Israel #Genocide #Gaza

@ukpolitics @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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We're now at the stage where the word "Palestine" is an anti-Semitic statement, rather than the name of a country of over 5 million people.
- Who are also Semitic people
  
  You see, Zionists get angry when you point out that Arabs are Semites. It ruins their narrative, causing them to violently lash out at you.
Do they even know why they're so against it anymore?
- @sirico
  It is really because they want to "kill" Palestine.
  For years they spread the lies about Iranian stupid former president saying that Israel will be wiped off the map of the earth and now they are literally doing it to Palestine with the help of their supporters in UK, US, Germany and so many other places.
  This can't be just over a football jersey.
  
  Not defending Israel or the UK or denying Plastine genoice, but Iran's president really wanted Israel wiped off the map and really meant it. Iran and Israel are both at the wrong here.
- Probably not, neither do they realize just how harshly history will judge their actions this week.
  When Netanyahu completes his mission and the last Palestinian child is murdered, don't let the fuckers pretend they didn't know.
Imagine if the Germans, Russians or any other nation had control of as much as Israel does, there would be calls to reign them in, or action would be taken to do it. Tony Bloom will hopefully find out how many, if any other Brighton & Hove supporters support Palestine.
Brighton employee https://seagullsaa.co.uk/blog/tomer-hemeds-inflammatory-social-media-posts/
If only we didn't have a culture where we canceled people for their opinions. When you have that the people in power can always use the same levers to control thought. Canceling people for wrong think is part of the control net. When there is a control net 90% of us can agree that what Israel is doing is genocide and none of us can do anything.
- As someone who lived in Brighton for 5 years, it's supposed to be one of the left leaning cities in the entire country.
  If any city/location shouldn't do this it's Brighton or Bristol, so this one really surprised me.
  Problem is the club is a private business worried about political pushback
Not sure what "It it[sic] about wiping off #Palestine off the map of the earth." is referring to.
It's not UK policy, and it won't be the policy of the football club either.
When ministers proscribe groups taking part in legitimate protest, they should know that this kind of thing is part of the chilling effect that such measures have - the precise message never gets through to everyone, so you will always have people being punished for stuff that was not in scope; this was also evident when police arrested people for supporting Palestine rather than Palestine action. It all contributes to a general air that Palestine is Bad.
But this also doesn't mean that the police in those cases, or the football club in this case, are pro-genocide. More likely they just misunderstood.

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