Palestinian Solidarity at the World Cup

It is the day after the weekend where France lost to Argentina, and Argentina are now our World Cup champions. I'm happy about that. And then Morocco did lose last week to France, which was devastating to me and my family and the rest of the Arab world because we would have loved to see them beat their colonizers, but they got really far, and I want to talk about the impact that that's had. They did coming forth when they lost to Croatia this weekend as well, so just

in case y'all needed to know that. But I will say I am really happy for Argentina, and maybe it was because Morocco lost to France, but I wasn't mad seeing France losing, and all the celebrations I've seen from people celebrating Argentina have been so heartwarming and yeah, but anyway, I wanted to focus on something that I think has been so unprecedented and beautiful and singular and I think deserves more coverage, and that is this show of Palestinian

solidarity that has been happening during the World Cup. It is so cool, and I want to talk about why it's happening, the circumstances that could lead to this happening, and what it means, because I think it's very significant moving forward, what it comes to Palestinian rights since Palestinian support. So let's get into it. There's a great article by British Palestinian writer Hamzalisha titled Palestine is the biggest winner

at this year's World Cup. And this article did such a good job compiling some key moments, so I'm going to be referencing from it a lot as we continue

this episode. Okay, here we go. Despite the Western media doing its best to ignore it, the World Cup has seen a huge tidal wave of Palestinian solidarity and it's united the Arab world in a really special way, and also highlighted just how many people Arab and non Arab alike support the Palestinian cause and so, not to be too cheesy, the biggest winners of this World Cup, in my opinion, have even had a team at all competing,

and that's the Palestinians. The World Cup has been characterized by unforeseeable developments and dramatic quote unquote up sets, which it's a word I don't even really like, even if it's grammatically correct when it's used in fucking sports jargon.

But I don't like it because it kind of sounds like a bad thing because it's like upset who But really, I think surprises like this are a really good thing because what these upsets usually mean is simply that the underdog one, which is a narrative I will always support. So these surprises really started with Argentina's lost to Saudi Arabia, which shocked everyone. The faces in the stadium, draws on the floor, everyone was shocked. I watched it with my mom.

It was it was incredible and it was truly a beautiful game. I highly recommend you at least watch some clips from it. It was fucking cool. And I don't know, it came out of nowhere, was really beautiful. And after this victory, Kingston, man of Saudi Arabia, ordered that day that they won a public holiday. To say the least, everyone was losing their minds and these surprises seemed to be endless in this World Cup, mostly because, as I said,

the obvious teams were losing to the underdogs. And coming out of this one of the most consistent themes has been this overarching Palestinian solidarity that has unfolded, particularly among fans of Arab nations. World Cup was already significant on its own. It's held Inta, making it the first World Cup to be held in the Arab world in the Muslim world, and only the second held entirely in Asia after the two thousand two tournaments in South Korea and Japan.

The Arab world is obsessed with soccer. An understatement to say obsessed, I should you not. It's a huge part of Arab culture, Middle Eastern culture, and so this was already a huge deal to start with. And I think these two things together, the fact that it's very cultural and the fact that this is the first time it's been on an Arab stage I think these two things together created seed for Arabs and Middle Easterners to really

come together in a way we've never really seen. And this first World Cup in the Arab World has captured in this symbolic way, this reality where Western powers have receded in the face of their challengers Morocco. They reached the semifinals and they played France, their colonizers, which was so symbolic. Saudi Arabia humiliated one of the tournament favorites, Argentina, and then Tunisia did the same to its former colonizer

France Japan. They beat Germany and Spain. This traditional power and balance in global soccer and what it means for geopolitics, I feel like it can no longer be taken for granted or ignored. As many as five million Moroccans live abroad, mostly in Europe, and they've celebrated the team's victories in huge street celebrations in France and Belgium and Spain and

the Netherlands, and just internationally. For Moroccans living outside of Morocco and for so many other migrants from the Arab world or Africa, they've been driven by decades of desperation in their home countries to risk everything to reach Europe, only to suffer abuse and contempt. So this achievement after achievement was a huge pivotal milestone. And I think this drive has been coupled with the show of Palestinian pride

in Clethod as well. There was no Palestinian team at the World Cup, and yet the Palestinian flag was everywhere, not only in the hands of celebrating Moroccan players and fans, but also at every game and on the streets of Dacha, and it was just overwhelming and so amazing to see. And these displays they shocked some Israeli journalists, who had been assured by their own government that the U S broker Abraham Accords that had happened between Israel and Morocco

and other Arab states. They thought that this signaled that the Arab world had relinquished any pretense of advocacy for Palestinian rights. But as we see with a lot of sports, soccer creates its own form of civil society, and especially because it's a huge international game in a way that no other sport really is, and also being played in a region where civil society has largely been suppressed by authoritarians.

It's made it clear in this World Cup that the Arab public is not willing to follow their unelected leaders and accepting the brutality against Palestinians and what human rights organizations have called Israel's apartheid system a k a. Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, violence, brutality, murder. The list can go on. I'm sure you've heard me on my soapbox before,

but it always bears repeating. My point is that the Arab public and the people in these Arab nations do not represent and do not necessarily believe in these leaders that again they did not elect. It's all authoritarian dictatorships and just corrupt government that I mean, we can get into history another time, but the disablement of so many of these governments have been because of the Western world, say the least, I don't know, different episode. I'm getting distracted, sorry.

Even countries that did not qualify for the World Cup are surging with this united pride and pro Palestinian sentiment. The Palestinian cause is obviously near and dear to the hearts of many Arabs across the world. And again, not only is this the first time the World Cup has been hosted in an Arab country. It's also probably the first time there has been such a large gathering and concentration of Arabs across nationalities gathered all in one place.

And again at almost every single game, there have been fans holding the Palestinian flag or banners that say Free Palestine in the stadium. In their matches against Australia and Belgium respectively, Tunisia and Moroccan fans each unfurled a huge Free Palestine flag in the forty eight minute, which is very significant because this is in reference to the nineteen Necba,

which translates to the catastrophe. The Neckba deserves millions of episodes on its own, but essentially it was the mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of at least seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees in ninety eight when the state of Israel was formed. A side note that I do want to mention here is that there's an incredible film on Netflix right now that you should all go watch. It's called Fara f A r h A. It's about the Neckba, and there's never been a film like this before.

And the Israeli government has been doing this like smear campaigned against it and has been calling it all sorts of terrible things. But the other side, Palestinian supporters and Palestinians, they've made it so successful. They've outdone the haters I guess to say the least, and it's doing really well. And it's because of these supporters that is doing so well. So I mean, sorry to get a little bit tangential here, but I really encourage you to watch Fudha on Netflix

right now. There's never been a film about this catastrophe the NBA, so I highly encourage everyone to watch or even just like put it on in the background while you're doing something else so it counts as views. Just keep supporting it. I I think this is a really important time and it feels really significant that this is all happening at the same time. So anyway, go watch

that film. But Tunisia and Moroccan fans each at the forty minute, in reference to this catastrophe, they unfurled this huge free Palestine flag, and by waving that Palestinian flag, Moroccan ends and players expressed a very public descent from the choices of their government and of the Western Powers and as well as other Arab autocrats to abandon the Palestinians to their fate, and as they advanced, Morocco was able to sustain the attention on these issues, and their

players proved time and time again that they are more than deserving to be playing on this world stage. Morocco was also the first African team to make the semifinals of the World Cup, which is also a significant achievement and a lovely slap in the face to anyone who

doubted them. The Moroccan defense was incredible, maybe some of the best defense I've ever seen, but due to soccer's globalization, the top players in soccer have for decades all played in Europe's elite leagues, and this was the first World Cup in which all five African teams were coached by African coaches rather than by European ones, and Morocco's coach in particular appears to have made in a exceptionable difference.

During Tunisia's game against France, a Genesian fan ran onto the pitch and he waved a Palestinian flag, cart wheeling in the process. The crowd erupted into chance of Palestine as he was dragged away by security and in a different match at the stadium, fans chanted with spirit and blood, we will redeem you Old Palestine. They chanted this in Arabic. And this occurred on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People November twenty nine, and it felt very poetic.

And then when Morocco knocked the former champions Spain out of the tournament, the Moroccan team posed for the standard celebratory team photo and instead of holding the Moroccan flag, they all held a Palestinian one. A winning team holding up the flag of another country has literally never happened before, and the fact that it's a Palestinian flag, I don't know, man chills. I'm upset, obsessed, but okay, I feel like I'm going to get more rambily and distracted, So before

I do that, let's take a break. I could not think of a witty segue to get there, but here are some ads. Okay, we're back. I also wanted to mention what, in my opinion, is the most iconic image of the World Cup, and that is when Baracco's Sophia and Buffal was dancing with his mom after his team's brilliant upset victory over Portugal in the quarterfinals. They were dancing and happy, and she's wearing a hijab, and it

was just this pure display of joy and um. It just it felt really familiar to me, and it felt that way to a lot of Middle Easterners and Arabs and Moroccans. This moment, this dancing between him and his mom, it was a statement of pride and of priorities and a reminder that as the mother of another great football player, Zenna Dean's Don, she once said that quote, some things

are bigger than football. Buffall and his mother, like the majority of Morocco's players and coaches, they live in European cities, and they're part of that continent's vast, marginalized and embattled migrant underclass. Again, she wore a hijab, something that she would be barred from doing if she was a teacher or a public servant in France. Against all of that, this moment on the field was captured in a moment

of unbridled joy. It was so pure and so human and just reminded everyone, I hope reminded me and my family of who we are. And again, I think this is really significant when you think about the geopolitical implications that we've seen during these games, with countries like Morocco playing against the teams of the countries that colonize them AKA when they played with France, it really feels like this beautiful blossoming of culture against all odds of trying

to suppress it. So outside the stadiums, this theme remained the same when it came to Palestinian solidarity. A Saudi Arabian vendor selling flags of different countries, he went viral after he was spotted giving customers an extra Palestinian flag as a free gift with any purchase. And so this uplifting message that has been repeated time and time again during this World Cup is that Palestine can never be

removed from the hearts of the people. And there are so many heartwarming videos like the one I mentioned, and I urge everyone to follow Palestinian accounts to keep up if you're curious. I know the World Cup is technically over now, but these videos are so fun and joyful to watch. I really felt so much joy watching them. This outpouring of support for Palestine is reminiscent of an earlier time in history. When the Arab world was also

united in its support for Palestine. The Palestinian cause was once a driving force in the policy direction of the Arab world, and it reached its zenith in the nineteen sixties when nations like Syria, Jordan in Egypt they went to war against Israel with the anti imperial objective of

regional Arab unity in Palestinian liberation. However, those aspirations were stomped out in nineteen sixty seven when Israel quote unquote one the Six Day War or the June War, which is also known as the nineteen sixty seven Arab Israeli War or the Third Arab Israeli War. Just a very quick history lesson here. This war was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, and it ended after Israeli tanks and infantry advanced on a heavily fortified region

of Syria called the Golden Heights. They successfully captured the Goal and Heights. After this, the next day, on June tenth and nine, sixty seven, a U N brokered ceasefire took effect and the Sixth Day War came to an abrupt end. The casualties between the two opposing sides are basically incomparable. I'm gonna say some stats here, but despair with me. Between seven hundred and seventy six and nine hundred and eighty three Israelis were killed and four thousand

and five hundred and seventeen were wounded. Fifteen Israeli soldiers were captured. Arab casualties were far greater. Between nine thousand and eight hundred and fifteen thousand Egyptian soldiers were listed as killed or missing in action. An additional four thousand, three hundred and thirty eight Egyptian soldiers were captured. Jordanian losses are estimated to be seven hundred killed in action

with another two thousand and five hundred wounded. The Syrians were estimated to have sustained between a thousand and two thousand, five hundred killed in action, between three hundred and sixty seven and five Syrians were captured. It's an incomparable, an insurmountable loss, and I might go as far to say it was a massacre because it was so unbalanced. Casualties were also suffered by the u n e F, the United Nations Emergency Force that was stationed on the Egyptian

side of the border. In three different episodes, Israeli forces attacked a U n e F convoy as well as camps in which un e F personnel were concentrated, as well as the un e F headquarters in Gaza, and this resulted in one Brazilian peacekeeper and fourteen Indian officials killed by Israeli forces, with an additional seventeen peacekeepers wounded in both groups. That's your history lesson for today, at least for now. But as you can't imagine that this

was a huge loss for the Arab world. In addition to stealing the Olon Heights, this war led Israel to seizing and occupying all remaining Palestinian territories, and as you know or should know by now, Israel has maintained its control of the land at the expense of the Palestinians, with Arab leaders not able to do much in protest over these years, especially after this nineteen sixty seven loss,

a lot of Arab leaders almost seemed indifferent. When we fast forward to something happened that seemed like a decisive death blow to the hopes of Palestinian solidarity in the Abraham Accords were signed, and these were a series of joint normalization statements between Israel and Arab countries that would theoretically pave the way for increased business and diplomatic relations.

The implication was that Israel could afford to maintain it's apartheid rule and still enjoy warm relations with the Arab world because their politicians, too were be to willfully neglect the Palestinians. Officials from Bhayan, the UAE, and Morocco all signed the supposed quote unquote peace treaty with Israel. However, as we've seen from this year's World Cup, the Arab

people do not agree with their politicians or their decisions. Again, most of these decision makers are not elected by their people. There's a lot of corruption at play, and I think it's very important to always separate a government from its people, as we're seeing, especially in Iran right now, which is something that makes me very emotional and deserves to be talked about more. I can't do a justice in this one sentence, but I urge you all to keep spreading

awareness about Iran. Please. What they're doing to protesters is inhumane and truly medieval. Recent polls indicate that the Arab public widely disapproves of the Abraham Accords, strongly disagreeing with the prospect of normalizing ties with Israel as long as the Palestinians remain oppressed. But if there were still any lingering doubts that these accords our bullshit had not wanted.

The experience of Israeli journalists and Clethod can be seen as this decisive confirmation that the treatment of Palestinians will actually be what dictate the trajectory of normalization. Israeli journalists broadcasting live have been interrupted by rallies of people chanting pro Palestinian slogans and waving Palestinian flags. An Egyptian man went viral after he leaned into the camera and said,

live on Israeli television, Viva Palestine. Fans refusing to speak to Israeli channels has also been a hilarious common occurrence. One particular exchange included Moroccan fans posing for the camera before swiftly walking off upon realizing it was for an

Israeli media outlet. The reporter's response was one of shock, repeatedly citing that a piece agreement had been signed by Morocco, thereby assuming that the Moroccan people themselves endorsed the notion that Israel's crimes could be whitewashed and forgotten, and again highly recommend you watch these videos. They have brought me a joy that I haven't felt in literal years, and it's just beautiful and most importantly hilarious to see. Highly recommend.

There are silver lining sometimes to life, and I feel like there are enough terrible things happening where a little joy is fine. And seeing Israeli journalists being accumulated, thank you, thank you world. There's a thread on Twitter of World Cup football fans refusing to speak to Israeli channels. I'll try to put that in the note somewhere, but regardless, highly recommend looking up these videos. Just again, beautiful, beautiful stuff.

And as I mentioned, Israeli journalists often seem bewildered as to why they are being boycotted. An Israeli reporter told The New York Times, I really changed my mind here. We are not human beings for them. They want to wipe us out from the map, which is obviously not true. And language like this is one of many Zionist talking points that are all stupid. And while Israeli journalists speculated about being wiped out. That is, in fact, the lived

reality for Palestinians under Israeli rule. Also, there is a video that was captured, and I'm sure there are many more instances like this where it was not captured on video, but the Israeli police were violently cracking down on Palestinians, including children, who were celebrating Morocco's previous winds and occupied East Jerusalem. They were celebrating Morocco becoming the first African or air country to reach the semifinals, and they were

literally beaten up. There's no defense in this video. That's the thing that I can't get over is the I d F facts in a way that is so indefensible and so obvious. And you can say that maybe the similar things about the police here. It's mind blowing that they've been able to terrorize Palestinians for basically a century now. I also want to play this video. Well, you're gonna hear the audio. There's a Palestinian activist online that I

really admire. He's always posting really great things, and he sometimes post funny things which are very funny. But his name is Saha and his handle is sp ei h dot jpg and there is a video that he posted about basically what Israel has been doing just throughout even the past week when this World Cup is happening, and I feel like he'll say it better than me paraphrasing it,

so here he is. Let's go through everything Israel has been doing to Palestinians in the past week or so, during all this hype of Morocco making it to the semifinals. And these are the reasons why so many people are carrying and waving the Palestinian flag at the World Cup right now, including the Moroccan team after their matches. First, we have Palestinians who are celebrating Morocco's winds being attacked

by Israeli occupation forces. They're out here waving the Morocco flag trying to celebrate with them, and of course it has to be cut short with Israeli soldiers coming and hitting everyone. Then we have a sixteen year old child named Jennez Kadine who was on the roof of her house when she was shot in the face by Israeli forces during another illegal raid of the city of Genine. We have another sixteen year old Palestinian child, a boy named Theei Maui, who was also killed by Israeli forces

in west of Romola. On top of those two, we have four Palestinian men also killed by Israeli forces Jehad Hamid Ladak damage and set. Israeli forces demolished another Palestinian home in a town near Jericho, then another Palestine home in the town of Laban. Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at journalists who were covering the Palestinian protests against the illegal Israeli settlement X mansions in the town of Bid Desion. You'd think that we're done, but there's more.

We have an Israeli soldier brutally beating a young Palestinian man in Nablis. The soldier sits on top of him and punches him in the head. And east of Hebron, Israeli forces cut down fifty olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers. And of course Israeli settlers continue to break into an ups some moss under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. This is why everyone's living in the Palestinian flag at

the World Cup. This is why that tun Asian man randomly ran through the match with the Palestinian flag, or why Israeli reporters are being ignored and shunned. These are the reasons. Why not because anti Semitism is because Israel is literally killing Palestinians. You'd rather just blame it all on anti Semitism instead of simply holding Israel accountable for

their actions. Everything I just listed happened in the past like ten days, putting aside everything that Israel has been doing the Palestinians for the past almost a hundred years now, so don't be surprised when people stand with the people of Palestine. Last week marked six months since El Jazira journalist Sharine was assassinated by Israeli forces, and while her death did attract more coverage than as usual in part of her being an American citizen, it was unfortunately not

an exception. Since the year two thousand fifty, Palestinian journalists have been murdered many many more civilians, including children, have been murdered. So if media representatives or journalists from an apartheid state can't seem to understand why the reception to their presence has been so cold, they just are better off examining why that is and why their government is actually the one attempting to wipe a people off the map. Even in the weeks during this World Cup, Israel has

killed multiple Palestinians, has murdered multiple Palestinians. They killed a sixteen year old girl when she was on her roof searching for her cat. She was shot four times, twice in the head. How can you justify that they're claiming it was an accident. But it's similar to what police say here when they shoot someone multiple times in the back and then blame it on the person that they murdered, in the family, that they destroyed X Y Z, etcetera, etcetera.

And just to put it in perspective, Israeli forces have killed over two hundred and fifteen Palestinians this year, making it the deadliest year and over a decade. Israel is the one who does not see Palestinians, as has proven time and time again by their actions as human beings. Something so significant is that the public support of Palestinian solidarity has not been confined to only fans of Arab nations.

Brazilian fans also proudly raised the Palestinian flag, and Uruguay supporters have been spotted dotting the Kofeia, which is the symbolic black and white scarf that has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance. And they're also wearing pro Palestinian shirts

with fans insisting the Palestinian people deserve freedom. One clip that also went viral and social media featured an English fan who, during an interview with an Arabic channel, confessed that as Arabic wasn't really that strong, and then he shouted free Palestine and great Arabic and then he broke into this free, free, free chant with everyone around him

again joyful, beautiful stuff. That just proves that this kind of support works, and it grows and it spreads, and so all of this really goes to show is that while Arab governments have been normalizing relations with Israel, that sentiment is not reflected in the streets, and Arabs and non Arabs alike are more passionate than ever about the

Palestinian cause. Some Palestinians living in Cuthold have referred to the World Cup as a quote golden opportunity to introduce our cause, and this intent has been received enthusiastically, to say the least. And yet in the face of such an unavoidable talking point, there's been a striking, if not unsurprising, radio silence from Western media. It's a huge reason why

I wanted to talk about this in an episode. I found it so strange that my family and friends who were tuned into the World Cup, we're constantly talking about something that hasn't been covered at all by Western media, at least not in a real honest way. If anything, the World Cup has ignited a Islamophobic and orientalists tropes in some Western news coverage, which I think is so shameful. For example, I'm going to go through a little list

that Al Jazeera shared. A Dutch newspaper blished a cartoon of Moroccan men stealing the World Cup trophy. And this image, they're on a bike and they're grabbing this trophy from a white man. They're depicted as not white, obviously, and it just reinforces these stereotypes of young Arab men in the Netherlands being seen as criminals. Another example is okay, so when Muslims put up an index finger, it's what we call dak weed, which is to signify the oneness

of God, because Islam there's only one God. Just like all the Big Three as far as religions go. But when these Muslim teams are winning, the gestures from the players, like sometimes you'll see a player raising an index finger or raising two index fingers, and so this fucking German TV news anchor responded to Morocco success by suggesting that these players that are raising their index fingers are showing

support for ISIS. And some fans have responded to this with humor, but at the same time it's like you're laughing only because it's sad and maddening. Another example is a cartoon in a French newspaper. It depicted Cathos national team as bearded caricatures that were playing soccer holding rifles and machetes. Is such an ugly cartoon and I have no idea why they insist on making these artistic depictions. I think they know because it's gone people riled up

in the past. It's almost like they're like poking the bear. So it's kind of annoying. That's so childish in my opinion, but again, terrible depiction of Arabs. What's new. And then another example is a photo caption in a British newspaper stated that Cathodes are not used to seeing women in Western clothing, when in reality about eight seven percent of Cathos population is other countries, including Western ones, and this

caption was later removed. Another example, yes there's still more, is that a French journalist joked about there being a lot of Mosques in clod as if that was something like notable to be aware of. Yeah, no ship, people are sucking Muslim And then a Danish TV channel literally compared Morocco's players who were celebrating by hugging their mothers on the field, they compared them with monkeys. On live

television TV two news. They showed a segment in which the anchor Sore and Lippert he held up an image of monkeys embracing while talking about Morocco's national team players hugging their mothers. And while comparing black and brown people with monkeys is a common, unsurprising racist trope, it was still pretty upsetting to see what happened in this year of two whatever. I just the obvious orientalist nature of Western news really um came out in full force for

some of this coverage. But yeah, I just think these kind of depictions and coverage it reinforces stereotypes that are harmful and shameful, and it further makes immigrants and people of color in countries that they immigranate to just get terrorized. And I just wanted to bring up some examples to remind you that news sucks most of the time. Okay, the World Cup and all the joy and pride that's come from it is all my family, and I'm sure most air families have talked about for the last month,

and I feel like it barely registers here. You have no idea how happy I've seen my parents, and my mom in particular, just text me updates, are watching a game with me. We're all so united in a way that I haven't felt before, and it's just really beautiful. And I and do that borders are all made up and in the end, we're all the same people fighting

for the same things. Notoriously, large sections of US and British media have engaged in the practice at deceptive framing and untrue coverage when it comes to covering Israel's treatment of Palestinians. We've seen this in inaccurate headlines, the twisting of words, and the general constant anti Palestinian and pro Israel bias that is almost always present when Western media talks about Palestine, and if Palestine rises in the political agenda,

western media is quick to disparage it. In the UK, when a Labor Party candidate made reference to Palestine during a campaign in one the liberal leaning New Statesman magazine referred to it as quote unhinged and an obsession. British Palestinian writer again Hamas Alisha writes in his article do p will suffering from decades of cruelty deserve support? Apparently

not if they're Palestinian. It's characteristic of this bias that while human rights have been a hot topic throughout the World Cup and fans across the world are being commanded to speak out against injustice, the outpouring of Palestinian solidarity

has largely been ignored. And this, unfortunately isn't surprising, but doesn't make it any less disappointing, he continues, As it maintains its rule, Israel has spent years, with unconditional assistance from the Western world, cracking down and suppressing Palestinian solidarity. We are under no illusions that the outpouring of support at the World Cup will cause the occupation to grind

to a halt or prevent Palestinians from being killed. As a British Palestinian, he says, I often see the misery of my family who are living under occupation gets swept under the carpet by the international community. As a result, it's hard not to exist in a perpetual state of despondency.

But seeing the Palestinian flag hoisted so proudly during the World Cup has been heartening because it provides new grounds for hope and it shows that this is by no means a solo struggle, and that the commitment to Palestine liberation remains as unshakable as ever. That was the end of his article, and uh, that's a great place to end because that was fucking great and poetic, and I hope that you also go watch the movie on Netflix.

It's really important and it all goes hand in hand with supporting the Palestinian people and continuing to raise awareness because that's a huge reason why we've gotten this far, and the culmination of all of that being broadcast from the World Cup internationally. It's just been really really incredible and beautiful to watch. And uh, yeah, that's the episode. Until next time. I don't know, go watch Huh. That's the only thing I can really say. And I hope

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