Thursday January 16, the Paris Basketball team will welcome players from Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv to the Adidas Arena, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. This EuroLeague meeting will be held at 8:30 p.m. under tension, particularly since the attack on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam in November, for which five individuals have since been convicted.
Tickets for this basketball match are on sale online, for prices ranging from 16 to 70 euros, depending on the category chosen.
Ahead of the match, “Parisii”, the Paris Basketball supporters group, announced Thursday January 2 in a press release that it will not take part in the entertainment in the stands during the event. “There will be no drums, no singing, no tarpaulins,” warned the kop.
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They explain their decision in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “We decided with the Bureau not to make this match a usual match and above all not to act as if nothing had happened. »
The association, which has nearly 200 members, adds that it does not wish to “politicize the kop or create divisions in our ranks. But there are things that go further than a simple basketball match… Our values and the values of humanism in general. »
Regularly, and in particular since October 7, 2023, calls for boycotts target Israeli groups or individuals who perform abroad. The case of the Israeli dance troupe Bat Sheva is particularly eloquent: although it has repeatedly declared itself in solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposed to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, it is nevertheless boycotted by anti-Israel activists, and its representations in Europe are regularly disrupted by the BDS movement.
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