Suleiman Obeid — "the Pelé of Palestine" — was assassinated by an Israeli tank while in a food aid line to feed his 5 children. FIFA must hold apartheid Israel accountable for its apartheid & sporticide against Palestinians by banning it from football.
#DisruptFIFA#FIFAWorldCup
The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.
The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN
We’ve reached the point where Nazi Germany placed less restrictions on foreign participation in the 1936 Olympics than has the United States for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
Dirty rotten scoundrel Gianni Infantino must never be allowed to live down his obsequious sycophancy towards the US leadership.
#OtD 7 Jun 1913 150,000 people attended a pageant at Madison Square Garden in NYC to support striking @IWW silk workers in Paterson. Up to 1000 workers took part, with the assistance of John Reed, Big Bill Haywood and others https://t.co/WuSvSx8DOf
BREAKING:
Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages.
This is not a battlefield target.
It is a critical water infrastructure.
This is an act of genocide.
Israeli settlers blocked children in Masafer Yatta from playing football on their village field threatened with demolition. The settlers sat before them chanting in Hebrew to intimidate them, while the children watched helplessly. How much longer will this continue?
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Polymarket isn’t legal to operate in Italy but is now a sponsor of the Serie A + Lazio’s shirt sponsor.
In a league where a big betting scandal involving players betting on their own matches etc was uncovered a couple of years ago.
What could possibly go wrong? 😑
Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.
Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.
a country that doesn’t punish this kind of behavior must be punished itself- weapons embargo and bds are the floor btw. meanwhile in the western world, the only people who get punished are those who call this evil out.
If a colleague ever approaches you to talk about how X, Y, Z thing has changed since childhood and is now 1000% worse, more expensive, and socially toxic, 9 times out of 10 it’s because private equity got involved and turned it into an “industry.”