Côte-d’Oriens activists believe that “Israeli athletes and sportspeople in general should be subject to the same measures as athletes and sportspeople from Russia and Belarus for the Olympic Games.”
Press release from the Côte-d’Or collective for a just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis of November 13, 2024:
Let’s boycott the France – Israel football match on Thursday!
We will not watch the France – Israel football match this Thursday, November 14.
While the Israeli government continues on its genocidal slope with terribly murderous military operations for the civilian populations of Gaza, while the Palestinian populations of the West Bank and East Jerusalem are also targeted by the brutal policies of the Israeli government, we consider that this football match is null and void in the current context and should have been canceled.
Furthermore, Israeli athletes and sportsmen in general should be subject to the same measures as athletes and sportsmen from Russia and Belarus for the Olympic Games: be authorized to compete under a neutral banner and on an individual basis if and only if they have not supported or approved war crimes or policies that violate human rights. However, we know that Israeli athletes have already contributed to these crimes, recruitment in the Israeli army being compulsory.
In this area as in others, double standards are not acceptable.
Member organizations of Collective 21:
Associations and collectives:
– Friends of Al Rowwad 21
– People’s Assembly 21
– AFPS association France Palestine Solidarity
– ARAC Chenôve, association. rep. fighters for friendship, solidarity, memory, anti-fascism and peace
– ATTAC 21, association for the taxation of financial transactions and for citizen action
– ATMF, association of North African workers in France
– DAA collective! Dijon anti-racist autonomy
– Extinction Rebellion 21
– National Federation of Free Thought (departmental federation / Martinet circle)
– LDH Dijon, human rights league
– LSR 21, leisure and solidarity for retirees
– MAN Côte-d’Or, movement for a non-violent alternative
– The peace 21 movement
– MRAP 21, movement against racism and for friendship between peoples
– SOS racism
– Tzedek! decolonial Jewish collective
– UJFP, French Jewish union for peace
Trade union organizations:
– CGT 21, general labor confederation
– CNT 21, national labor confederation
– FSU 21, unitary union federation
– Solidarity 21
– UNEF Bourgogne, national union of students of France
Political movements and parties:
– Ensemble ! 21
– GES Ecosocialist Left 21
– LFI la France insoumise 21
– NPA new anti-capitalist party 21
– PCF French Communist Party 21
– POI independent workers party 21
– Let’s reinvent Quetigny
– UCL libertarian communist union Dijon
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