Show Israel the red card: Blocchiamo tutto! 🇵🇸

No Virtus–Maccabi Tel Aviv • No to this match of shame!

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21 November | H 18:00
Piazza Gaza (ex Piazza Maggiore) | Bologna

For more than two months, Bologna, like many other Italian cities, has witnessed a strong mobilization in support of Palestine, and against any form of complicity between the government and the terrorist entity of Israel. In the two great general strikes of 22 September and 3 October, launched by USB, we blocked the country: cities, ports, airports, highways, and railways stopped under the chant “blocchiamo tutto”.

But we didn’t stop: we went to the town hall to pretend the break of all ties with Israel from Alston to Teva and the Virtus-Maccabi Tel Aviv match on 21 nov., stating clearly that in Bologna there is no room for companies or teams complicit in the Palestinian genocide.

The municipality’s response was highly expected: doors shut and rapid response units to protect them. This is a repressive line running through the entire country, from Rome to Turin, and from Trento to Cagliari.

But this will not stop us, and we’ll continue to pretend the cancellation of the match and the end of all collaborations with Israel , because a match with Maccabi means matching with the genocide, it means facing off reservists of the IOF dressed as simple supporters and the propaganda of a terrorist entity trying to use sport as a weapon of international legitimacy.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is part of a system of sport washing, a means through which Israel tries to make up its public image and normalize the occupation and genocide brought on the Palestinian people. UEFA welcoming the zionist entity in European competitions states the political compliance of the West and its sports institutions with a criminal, colonial regime.

This means we can’t just look away, and in Bologna, a city awarded the gold medal for resistance against fascism, there can be no place for a team representing a genocidal state, nor for zionist propaganda.We’ll put ourselves forward with the work of sports and of popular sports supporters to demand the exclusion of the zionist state from CIO, FIBA, FIFA, and any other international sports organization.

We have already stated that winning is possible: from Udine, where thousands opposed the Italy-Israel match, to “il giro dell’Emilia”, where Israel was excluded, to the Vuelta in Spain, where popular demonstrations blocked Israel from participating.

If FIP, the Italian government, and the municipality of Bologna aren’t going to stop this shameful match, then we will:

We launch an appeal to flood the PalaDozza with Palestinian flags, kufiyyas, and any other Palestinian symbol!

No to this match of shame!
Kick Israel out of all sports competitions!
Free Palestine – Israel is a terrorist entity!